 This was a common sawmill at the time because cedar was often mixed with stands of white pine and there was a market for shingles, hardwood flooring and lath as well as dimensional lumber.The logs were cut and brought to the top of the bluff in the winter by a man and team of horses and then rolled down to the live logs skidway.After the economic panic of 1893, the town was sold to Martin Valetine who ran the town for a number of years, finally selling it to Isaac and Bill Bonifas and later to Ben Miller.