Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company

He used the first to build a sawmill at Glenbrook; and the second was used to power the 42-foot (13 m) paddle wheel tugboat Governor Blasdel built with some of the lumber he milled from nearby forests.

Lumber was in great demand on the opposite side of the ridge separating Lake Tahoe from the silver mines to the east.

[2] Duane Leroy Bliss formed C&TL&F in 1872 to build a narrow-gauge railway up the hill from the sawmill at Glenbrook to Spooner Summit, and to purchase the Marlette Lake Water System with a wooden flume to float the lumber 12 miles (19 km) from the summit dropping 2,300 feet (700 m) to the Virginia and Truckee Railroad at Carson City, Nevada.

Railroad and flume operations were coordinated by installation of one of the first telephone systems in the west between Glenbrook and Carson City.

[3] The Lake Valley Railroad initially used 6-inch (15 cm) square timbers as wooden rails for a primitive locomotive fabricated by Vulcan Iron Works of San Francisco.