Pack mules, used as lime carriers on the Henry Cowell Ranch Pack mules, used as lime carriers on the Henry Cowell Ranch, where lime was mined and manufactured. The ranch was "self-supporting in terms of the industries necessary to manufacture, package and distribute the lime. The business not only quarried the limerock on the ranch, it also included a lumbering operation that provided the fuel to fire the lime kilns, a cooperage that made the barrels in which the lime was shipped, a drayage operation that brought the barrels of lime to the company warehouse and wharf, to be shipped on company schooners to San Francisco." Laurie MacDougall in " Henry Cowell and His Family, 1819--1955." Source of information: Articles on Website, see links below.
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Pack mules, used as lime carriers on the Henry Cowell Ranch, where lime was mined and manufactured. The ranch was "self-supporting in terms of the industries necessary to manufacture, package and distribute the lime. The business not only quarried the limerock on the ranch, it also included a lumbering operation that provided the fuel to fire the lime kilns, a cooperage that made the barrels in which the lime was shipped, a drayage operation that brought the barrels of lime to the company warehouse and wharf, to be shipped on company schooners to San Francisco." Laurie MacDougall in " Henry Cowell and His Family, 1819--1955." Source of information: Articles on Website, see links below.
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