 After several failed attempts at procuring financial assistance to help him with the project, it was apparent that no one believed his modern feat of engineering would work, so Henry Patrick McKenney took it upon himself to finance the job and he and his men spent the next two years constructing a wooden sluiceway down Enchanted Stream to run his logs from Enchanted to the Dead River, saving him a significant amount of mileage to the mill compared to his old route via the Moose River over to Moosehead Lake and down the Kennebec River.Logs were cut on site with four-inch-thick pine planks used for the flooring and three inch planks for the sides.Several trestles were built over deep gullies, ravines, and boulders, from ten feet high up to thirty feet high in places.