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length. Still another, which they were working into shingles, had 

 already made three hundred thousand, and enough lay there in the log 

 to make one hundred thousand more. It was perfectly free from knots 

 and windshakes for two hundred feet. They count, usually, on having 

 first-class clear lumber from the first one hundred and fifty feet. We 

 measured two large trees, standing within fifty feet of each other, which 

 were forty-one feet six inches, and forty-one feet, respectively, in cir- 

 cumference, at five feet from the ground." 



The mill of Korbel Bros., in the same vicinity, cuts twenty thousand 

 feet a da}'. The proprietors have a large manufacturing establishment 

 in Santa Bosa for all kinds of building, ornamental, and fancy work, to 

 which they intend at an early day to add a wine cask factory, the casks 

 to be made of selected timber from their mill. They have about twenty- 

 five thousand acres of land, fiassett & Mead's mill is in the same 

 locality; it has a capacity of from fifteen thousand to twenty thousand 

 feet a day, with about one hundred and sixty acres of timber land. 

 There is another small water mill, Olmstead's. in this district, with 

 a capacity of five thousand foet a day. Following are the wages paid: 

 Sawyers receive one hundred dollars per month; engineers, fifty 

 dollars; axemen, from thirty to fifty dollars; teamsters, seventy-five; 

 all with board, and are paid in coin. The cutting capacity of all the 

 mills in the county is two hundred and one 'thousand feet a day. 



RECAPITULATION. 



A well-posted lumberman gives the following statement of timber 

 within the county limits, by districts: 



Feet. 



Heald & Guerne 



Korbel Bros , 



Murphy Bros 



Hassett & Mead 



Armstrong & Estep 



Dutch John , 



Henry Willetts 



Marshall (Mill Creek) 



Beaver 



Torrence 



Other owners 



Coast, from Duncan's northward 

 Bodega Township 



Total timber in county 



30.000.000 



30,000,000 



30,000,000 



8,000.000 



12,000,000 



5,000,000 



6,000,000 



10,000,000 



5,000,000 



5,000,000 



30,000,000 



169,000,000 

 800,000,000 

 141,000,000 



1,130,000,000 



