Completed in 1880, the Great Incline of the Sierra Nevada was a 4,000-foot-long lift built by the Sierra Nevada Wood and Lumber Company. This unique steam-powered cable railway carried cordwood and lumber up 1,800 feet to a V flume, which carried the lumber down to Washoe Valley, where it was loaded on wagons for use in the mines of the Comstock. Driven by an engine on the summit, 8,000 continuous feet of wire cable, wrapped around massive bull wheels, pulled canted cars up a double-track tramline. This engineering feat transported up to 300 cords a day from the mill located in what is now Mill Creek.