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OUR LUMBER INTERIISTS 



One of the largest sash and door factories in Northern 

 California is located on the east side of the Sacramento 

 River at Red Bluff. It is the property of the Sierra Lumber 

 Company, who own thousands of acres of the finest yellow 

 and sugar pine timber in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 

 Their sawmills are located about forty miles east of Red 

 Bluff at Lyonsville, in this county, where the logs are con- 

 verted into lumber and shipped by flume to their yard and 

 factory here at the rate of 15,000,000 feet annually. The 

 greater part of this is manufactured into doors, sash, blinds 

 and fruit boxes, besides the finest ornamental work for 

 buildings. They make 100,000 doors annually which find 

 a ready market in the East, in Australia, Hawaii and the 

 Philippine Islands. Their trade in fruit boxes is for the 

 orchards in California and extends south as far as San 

 Diego and the orange groves of Pasadena and Los Angeles. 

 At their yard and factory here they employ over one hun- 

 dred and fifty men and boys all the year. At their mills in 

 the mountains, they employ nearly two hundred men nine 

 months of the year. Their payroll reaches $200,000 an- 

 nually. They ship millions of feet in carload lots to various 

 points by rail. They are well equipped with facilities for 

 such shipments, having railroad tracks with numerous 

 switches in their yard and their own locomotive that trans- 

 fers the cars to and from the main line of the Southern Pa- 

 cific road. The Sacramento River is spanned at this place 

 by a magnificent steel bridge with foot walk and wagon 

 drive. LTpon this is also the track over which the Sierra 

 Lumber Company transfer their cars to and from the rail- 

 road on the west side. 



SMYRNA riG or COMMERCE 



The soil and climate of California makes it the home of 

 the fig; two, and frequently three crops maturing in a sea- 

 son. The varieties are many but the best and most de- 

 licious figs when dried are those from Smyrna, known in the 

 market as Smyrna Figs. 



Mr. W. H. Samson, who is owner of a large nursery near 



