Carinyah Forestry Settlement
Research by Gordon Freegard
CARINYAH – Aboriginal for “Happy Home”
Dozens of spot mills and smaller cutters operated in the area between Canning Mill and Barton’s Mill in Pickering Brook. They spang up and thrived until either the contacts were filled or suitable timber ran out. It was then that they were moved to a new site and everything started all over again. This cycle happened continually with full sized mills and spots mills popping up all through the forest areas. In October 1883 regulation were gazetted requiring all timber cutters to be registered. After the creation of the Forest Department in 1895 the supervision of all cutters was done by forest rangers.
Plan Showing Layout of Smailes' Mill
Information supplied by Mac & Pam Beard and Graham Armstrong 2008 – 2010
Map drawn by GORDON FREEGARD
Copyright : Pickering Brook Heritage Group 2008 -2011
The main market for the timber produced was for railway sleepers, supplying contracts for Railway Companies in India, New Zealand and the Eastern States of Australia. Tram Lines were at that time, being laid in Perth and Fremantle and it was common practice to use Jarrah blocks as a foundation
JARRAH BLOCKS BEING LAID FOR PERTH'S TRAM ROUTE #38
TRAMLINE BEING LAID IN HIGH STREET, FREMANTLE c1905 #39
LAYING OF JARRAH BLOCKS BETWEEN THE TRAM LINES ON BOTH CLIFF & HIGH STREETS IN FREMANTLE, SEPTEMBER 1905 #40
References: Article: Pickering Brook Heritage Group
Images: 38 Unknown
39, 40 Perth & Fremantle – Past & Present