Whenever you encounter a place with the name of "sawmill," you can bet that lumber was produced there a hundred years ago. I don't know how many small sawmills there were around southern Utah prior to 1950, but it was a lot. For many years, these one-saw sawmills were powered by steam, and the only thing left at many of these sites is the old boiler. The boilers were constructed in such a way that they don't burn up, they don't rust away, and they are too big to move. Last week, I went for a hike in Sawmill Canyon.
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