Bartlett's occupied the area around the Big Bear Lake Chamber of Commerce
Lynn and Moyer’s Mill
Abut 1916 Clifford Lynn and Ed Moyer (former drug clerk in Ontario), formed a partnership to cut the trees in the lake and saw them into lumber. If the Water Company paid them to do this, I doubt it. The cutting was done when the ice was a foot thick, branches lopped off, and logs cut to length they could handle; then as ice thawed and broke up they pulled the logs into the Cove east of Gilner Point by putt-putt where the mill was located.
In 1917, as I saw it operating by the owners they had helpers, Elmer Deams (later to have his own auto shop), Charlie Erikson (a later camp owner) and “Lucy” Marple, later in business and now in Baja California. Some, if not all of these men lived by the mill and I believe the future Mrs. Lynn boarded them. Moyer built his own fine home in 1916 opposite Bartlett’s Store and over my future east line of Indian Lodge.
In this connection, there is a story. The Government engineers were trying to get the lines of sections correct in that year and when I came back in 1917 the stakes were changed for all of us and moved about twelve feet east and fourteen south. Moyer could not walk around his nice shed for my east line, so I sold him five feet by two hundred for $150. Mitchell then had part of my barn on my west so we made a trade and he moved it.
Although out of the Valley as well as the United States, I can not refrain from the trip over two years that Ed Moyer had taken on the Orinoco River with three others and a dozen blacks at the oars. “Wild Country” was no name for it – and for one thing they killed a python Ed swore was 90 feet long. Some snake story!
Indian Lodge was located in the Village of Big Bear Lake CA
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