1 8 REDWOOD LUMBERING. 



understand felling trees, or, for that matter, putting them 

 through to tide-water, like Ed. Barnard. In fact, he is what 

 he has credit for among redwood lumbermen a boss logger. 

 It may as well be stated here that the process of scaling logs 

 in the redwoods, in order to produce a certain number of feet, 

 after manufacturing, to the millmen, is quite different from 

 the rule by which logs are scaled in the pine woods, especial- 

 ly those in the eastern pine forests. The explanation is this 

 the size of the redwoods demands the use of circular saws 

 of greater dimensions and corresponding strength. To give 

 both the size and strength a thicker plate of steel is re- 

 quired, and consequently, a setting of the saw teeth in pro- 

 portion, making a kerf that destroys or wastes to the mill- 

 men at least ]/% of an inch at every cut of the saw. As the 

 value of redwood becomes better known, however, there is a 

 disposition manifested among the millmen to economize in 

 this particular by sawing into " cants," ranging from 10 to 16 

 inches with the heavy saw, and then resavving with single 

 saws or ponies, taking out a kerf only of ^ inch. It is a 

 mooted question Whether a band saw can be made to work 

 successfully in sawing large logs into cants. 



Economy in the manufacture of redwood lumber is a 

 matter in which the pioneer millmen of the Pacific Coast 

 have taken but little interest until within the past three or 

 four years. This could hardly be expected to have been 

 otherwise, for the reason that the supply seemed to them un- 

 limited and inexhaustible. The interest manifested by for- 

 eign investors and eastern capitalists in the timber reserves 

 of America, however, has of late checked the inclination to 



