Lesser Known Fruit Growers Logging Camps

Camp E395
Camp E, Fruit Growers Supply Company. Courtesy of Lola L. Tanner

Fruit Growers Supply Company had a total of eleven railroad logging camps on its Lassen Operation, west of Eagle Lake.. Technically, the longest operating, Camp 10, which closed in 1952, should have been named Camp 11. Then again, Fruit Growers had given consideration of a Camp 11, further north of Camp 10.

Anyhow,  there were  three camps that were quite small and operated for only one logging season during the 1920s. The first was Camp E at Merrill Flat. It was followed by tiny and peculiar Camp Y. Then there was Camp 9, which from most accounts only housed timber fallers, which was located on the Eagle Lake side of Antelope Mountain. Unlike the other camps that had portable wooden buildings these camps had canvas-wooden tents.

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