This company, known to have been in business at least 1886 through 1926, manufactured steam engines and logging equipment.
Information Sources
- American Steam Engine Builders: 1800-1900 by Kenneth L. Cope, 2006 page 142
- From Melbourne's Logging Era: 1912-1932, by Ed Vosatka, 2012 comes this snippet.
Union Cypress used an overhead cable skidder and loader system built by Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company of New York City. In May 1913, it cost $2,425. Lidgerwood was probably the best-known developer of the specialized machinery that was required to log in difficult situations, from mountain valleys to deep coastal and riverine cypress swamps...