The mill then, as it is now, re-mills lumber into smaller boards. The Santa Cruz Lumber Company was cutting mostly along the Pescadero Creek canyon and over the ridge to Butano, using a standard gauge Shay to move logs to the main mill at Waterman gap from 1930ish until 1950(the logging railroad was "landlocked" and the first milled lumber was taken to this re-mill by truck through Boulder Creek and then down the valley).

This was old-growth, huge huge logs mostly redwood with doug firs mixed in until 1972 give or take a year, when the old mill shut down for good and the Pescadero Creek lands turned over to conservation groups. Santa Cruz Lumber Company sold out to the San Lorenzo Lumber Company folks in 1985 or '86, and now the retail locations have become Lumbermen's, then ProBuild. I think they got this re-mill property too, somebody is still ordering those centerbeams!