El Dorado Wood and Flume Company Records

The El Dorado Wood and Flume Company was incorporated in Nevada in 1875 with H. M. Yerington, J. W. Haynie and A. J. Ralston as trustees; H. M. Yerington was the president when the company incorporated. Its major areas of operation were in Lake Valley, El Dorado County, California and in Hope Valley, Alpine County, and California. The company also held land in Ormsby, Douglas, and Washoe counties, Nevada.

Logging and fluming wood was declared the business of the company until 1880 when its lands were denuded of timber. After that period, renting and selling company land was the primary activity. Much of the land was leased for pasturing and eventually sold, creating some of the largest ranches in the eastern valleys of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Land holdings and companies became intertwined during this period of lumbering and land acquisition in California and Nevada.

The El Dorado Wood and Flume Company absorbed the Markleeville Flume Company in 1875 and soon after acquired the properties of H. M. Yerington and J. W. Haynie who were also officers in coexistent land and lumber companies. In later years the officers and interests of the El Dorado Wood and Flume Company were closely tied to those of the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company. The El Dorado Wood and Flume Company was formally dissolved in 1940.