Editing Log flume (section)

==History==
J. W. Haines built the first successful lumber flume in 1859. The v-shaped trough brought a half-million feet of lumber daily from the eastern Sierra Nevada to the [[Comstock Lode]]. The {{convert|15|mi|km}} route was between [[Lake Tahoe]] and [[Reno]], terminating at the [[Virginia and Truckee Railroad]] terminus in [[Washoe Valley, Nevada|Washoe Valley]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Sagan |first=Bob |date=January–February 2017 |title=Five Fools on a Flume |url=https://nevadamagazine.com/issue/january-february-2017/3857/ |magazine=Nevada Magazine |access-date=November 6, 2022}}</ref> Soon, log flumes spread across the mountains of the [[100th meridian west#United States|western United States]] as artificial rivers that brought lumber to market.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.inventionandtech.com/content/log-flume-1 |title=Log Flume |last=Zimmerman |first=Robert |date=Fall 1998 |website= |publisher=American Heritage's Invention & Technology |volume=14 |issue=2|access-date=November 19, 2022}}</ref>