The Rock Crusher Spur - Generating Some New Traffic

A few months ago when researching I stumbled across a document referencing a county owned rock crusher. It intrigued me as I had seen reference to gravel pits on the NP Tile Plats that i had thought of as large structures. This evening something caught my eye and upon closer inspection it turned out to be the Clark County Rock Crusher.

The simple operation could be set up along side a spur for loading into rail cars.

The Requisition for Authority For Expenditure (Form 1363) outlined a request to do just that to provided crushed rock across the county.

Received July 7 1913
Proposed Work : Rock Quarry Spur for Clarke Co. Track increase 1194 ft.

West of Yacolt on Yacolt Branch County of Clarke, Wash., owns several acres of ground, purchased for the purpose of developing a rock quarry to furnish rock for the improvement of county roads.
The county has purchased a rock crusher and same will be installed as soon as it arrives. Construction of spur track recommended to serve this quarry as per sketch and estimate herewith submitted.
Special authority granted for the construction of this track as per Gen'1. Superintendent's wire of March 26th. The County expect to ship about four cars of rock per day via rail, to be unloaded at various stations in Clarke County, and from thence by team to location wanted for hard surface improvement of county roads.

 The proposed spur was built just before crossing the Lewis River. 
 

The NP tile Plats for the Yacolt branch however suggest two other locations where gravel spur /pit existed. One near Homan that was removed in 1914. The other Jameson Gravel Pit just past mile post 8 although I'm yet to find information on the track removal date.

Unfortunately my room and track arrangement doesn't allow any of these spurs to fit into the layout as per the prototype but the proposition of the county shipping 4 cars of crushed rock per day to various locations would provide an variety to operations on my layout.

For the time being I intend to model the rock crusher spur utilizing a spur off the run around in Brush Prairie on a small peninsula. This spur was an abandoned logging operation that intended to model a log loading of some kind. 

Utilizing this spur will enable me to generate traffic across the layout to various locations as the county requests it for roads being constructed and repaired.

The addition of this spur will enable me to increase the variety of traffic across the branch. Now I'm on the look out for equipment to replicate the mobile crusher and rail cars to serve its industry.