Second Biennial Report
Nevada Historical Society
1909-1910
pg. 79
(from Pioneer Days in Nevada, by A. C. Bragg)
Some of the previous material I have posted was part of
this.
Another important lumbering point was at Central Mills
located at Little Bangor,one mile south of Franktown
and operated by Gilman N. Folsom, Charles A. Bragg and
Albert Bragg, under the firm name of Folsom, Bragg & Co.
This firm worked several big teams between Central Mills
and had yards at Carson and Dayton, besides delivering
a good deal of lumber on the ground at the various mines
on the Comstock.
In this connection I am reminded that I owe the memory
of my father, Charles Allen Bragg, and to my mother,
Marcia Bryant Bragg, a few words, for it was such men
and women as they who left their imprint on the pages
of Nevada's early history. The spring from the loins
of Maine's most sturdy race of people. They spent the
honeymoon of their lives in the Pine Tree State, father
coming west in about 1860, followed by mother and five
children--Mrs. J. E. Dealey, of San Francisco, Mrs.
Addie E. Bacon, who passed to the beyond in February
1907,in New York, Mrs. R. L. Fulton of Reno, Mrs. W.R.
Jenvey of Hoboken, New Jersey, and myself in 1864. Father
was located at the Carson yard and did the outside business
for the firm of Folsom, Bragg & Co. He shipped much lumber
to Austin, Ione, and Hamilton, White Pine Mining District,
then a part of Lander County. The firm of Folsom, Bragg &
Co. cut nearly all the fence lumber used in Churchill and
Douglas Counties up to 1865.
(will send more of this later)
Joan