Clear Creek Flume

Elbert Edwards Photograph Collection

This is the flume in Clear Creek Canyon. Logs used to shoot down this flume from Spooner Summit, on their way to the wood yard at Carson City.

Date Uploaded: March 4, 2026

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Source: Special Collections and Archives, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Source URL: https://special.library.unlv.edu/ark:/62930/d1ns0m042

Source Caption: The view of a v-shaped log flume passing through Clear Creek in Ormsby County, Nevada. The V-Flume threaded its way through canyons and over ravines to deliver vast quantities of wood and timber to the mines at a minimum of expense.

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