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Cable Mountain, a 6,940-foot Navajo Sandstone summit in Zion National Park, rises high above Zion Canyon and is closely tied to the historic Cable Mountain Draw Works. Beginning in 1901, David Flanigan developed a cable system that, from 1904, lowered timber about 2,000 vertical feet from the heights above the valley, replacing a ten-day round trip to retrieve wood. Sold in 1906 and later rebuilt after lightning damage in 1911, the operation ran intermittently until 1926, with cables removed in 1930. Timber from the mountain helped build Zion Lodge, and the surviving headframe remains a rare early industrial feature in Zion.
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