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At the turn of the century Knight beat out several other large manufacturers to supply large diameter dredger pumps for use in San Francisco Bay, Seattle harbor and the Willamette and Columbia rivers
Samuel Knight died in 1913 and over several years the business was acquired by long-time employees C.H. Norton and D.V Ramazotti. Ramazotti operated the foundry until the late 1940s.
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For the fifty years from the early 1900s to mid-1950s, the foundry not only continued producing mining equipment for the gold mines of the Mother Lode but, also became an important producer of machinery for the timber and lumber industries. Knight Foundry produced some of the original equipment installed in the saw mills of the central California foothills and later supplied replacement parts and repair facilities. Knight Foundry has counted most of the major lumber and timber operations in northern and central California among its customers and, in more recent years, day, sand, gravel and gold dredging operations. The foundry was taken over in the late 1940s by Mr. Herman Nelson, who operated the plant until his death in 1970.
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