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on the Donkey engines and brakemen on the Railway. As Jack relates, the procedure was for the first or top Donkey to lov/er five or six loaded cars down to the second Donkey, which would hook on to them for lov/ering to the third and last' Donkey at the top of the steep grade from Mi 11 stream Road to the Mill at 17th Street. "Herm was the brakeman who took the loaded cars from the last Donkey to the shingle mill. To signal the Engineer on the Donkey, Herm had a wire wand on a telephone with which he could reach out to a line running alongside the track. He could give a couple of rings so the engineer would let the cars drop faster as there was an area where the cars had to have speed to get down to the mill ( crossing Mathers Avenue ). The first time the cars ran away, Herm jumped and the cars had no brakeman, what happened, the friction blocks on the Donkey let go, however, the Engineer somehow got the cars stopped. They gave Herm hell for jumping off. When the inevitable accident did happen, Herm stayed on the cars as they thought the Engineer could stop them. When everything became a bluer, Herm jumped just as the cars piled up. They found him about 20 feet back in the bush, out like a light." say was brother Herm had a broken leg In giving this account, what Jack didn for his perserverance. The nigh point of production for the Shields operation came just after the great Japanese earthquake of 1923, whicn set off a demand for shingles. During this period they were working at full capacity, once the market had been taken care of, the demand fell off and at the same time economical timber was no longer in reach, the Mill was shut down and demolished, the Donkey engines removed from the mountain. The skidroads and trails remained to form in part the basis for the original main trail to old West Lake, Lost Lake etc top of 15th Street. There was also a good trail sorting pond on Lawson Creek ( Mi 11 stream Road ) Creek. This trail connected up with and crossed trails at about the 1600' level. There is very ,, which started then from the along Shields Box Flume from the to the reservoir on Cypress the 22nd Street and 26th Street little if any of the old Box flume trail remaining today, being completely destroyed by logging operations of the late 40's when second growth timber was removed. WHAT'S IN A NAME ...? In the above article, there are several references to the Naisrnith Mill. This is the accepted spelling, but Mr. Harrison has discovered some old letter head which indicates tnat the name was actually Nasmyth. A copy of the letter head is reproduced below: NASMYTH LUMBER COMPANY MANUf^ACTUnenS and dealers in I.UMBER AND SHINGDES MILLS AT WEST VANCOUVER RED CEDAR YELLOW CEDAR HEMLOCK LARCH lin DOMINION BUILDING Vancotjvkr, B. C., Soi:)t. 9, 1919.