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Photograph shows the Providence Mill at West Branch in Big Chico Creek Canyon. This was the only mill of the Sierra Lumber Company known to have used a pond. All others were dry deck and roller mills. The mill sat on the east side of the creek on a little flat where the road from West Branch on the Humboldt Road came down. Saw dust was flumed from under the saws across the creek for disposal and was simply pilled there. This is were fishermen started a disastrous forest fire in 1950 in the old sawdust that cost Diamond valuable timber. (Harry Marion)
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