![]() “The Broughton lumber flume was one of the longest-running and longest lasting flumes in the United States,” said Robert Peterson with the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center. It took 55 minutes to travel the flume’s 11 miles. The Broughton Lumber flume carried unfinished lumber called cants from the Broughton Company sawmill in Willard, Washington, to the remanufacturing plant at Hood, Washington, near Stevenson. It’s a piece of Northwest history in this place where we live. In the Columbia River Gorge, there are remnants of a unique way to get unfinished logs from one place to another. A historical photo of the constructions of the Broughton Lumber flume along the Columbia River Gorge. (KOIN) - The timber industry helped build the Pacific Northwest - wood products from Oregon and Washington are shipped around the world.
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