Lumbering operations in the Glenbrook area of Lake Tahoe began in 1861. By 1872, consolidation of V-Flume systems in and near Clear Creek Canyon made it possible to float lumber, cordwood, and sawed material from Spooner’s Summit to Carson City and eliminate wagon hauling over the 9-year-old Lake Bigler Toll Road, also called Kings Canyon Road. In 1873, the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company, under Duane Bliss, assumed all operations and became the largest Comstock wood and lumber combine. It controlled more than 50,000 acres of timberland, operated 2 to 4 sawmills, 2 Tahoe Lake steam tugs for towing logs, 2 logging railroads, logging camps employing 500 men, and a planing mill and box factory in Carson City. Timber depletion and reduced Comstock mining brought the company to a close in 1898 after it had taken 750,000,000 board feet of lumber and 500,000 cords of wood from the Tahoe Basin forests during its lifetime.