The Cable Mountain Draw Works was engineered by David Flanigan starting in 1901, though he had initial projected the system as a teen in 1885. From 1904, timber was harvested from the heights higher than the natural depression and touched from Cable Mountain all the way down to the draw works within the natural depression, a vertical distance of two,000 feet (610 m). The system consummated AN 1863 prophecy created by religious leader that timber would descend from the cliffs “like a hawk flying.”
Before the draw works were created, the timber on Cable Mountain was obtained solely by a ten-day trip. Flanigan oversubscribed the operation in 1906 to Alfred Stout and O.D. Gifford of Springdale, World Health Organization operated it because the Cable Mountain Timber Works. The draw works were destroyed by lighting and restored in 1911. Intermittent operation continued till 1926 once the system was abandoned. The cables were removed in 1930. It’s the oldest pre-park structure in Zion.
The site was separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 24, 1978, reference variety 78000281.
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