REDWOOD LUMBERING. 2 1 



qualities were brought prominently to notice. Perhaps the 

 interest manifested by non-residents of California in redwood 

 lumber may be an incentive to our lumbermen to economize 

 in its manufacture. It must be conceded that a great sav- 

 ing of timber can be had through the use of thinner saw 

 plates, that will not use up so much of the log. 



Public attention having been called to the special quali- 

 ties of redwood, as heretofore stated, through purchases of a 

 few large tracts of its timber, agents for eastern lumbermen 

 have visited this coast in large numbers during the past year, 

 with a view to providing for the future needs of the great 

 lumber consumers of the United States. While all agents sent 

 out to icport upon the quantity and quality of this essentially 

 California product admit its fitness to fill any gap caused by 

 the gradual and final consumption of the white pine of the 

 East, they are somewhat staggered to find that tracts of tim- 

 ber sufficiently large to warrant the establishing of expensive 

 plants for its manufacture are not so numerous as they 

 had anticipated. An impression seems to have obtained 

 abroad, that the redwood forests are yet open to entry from 

 Government, and that a picayune profit paid to locators under 

 the timber act would secure large tracts at merely nominal 

 figures. While this impression has been shown by investiga- 

 tion to be false, it has, nevertheless, been the means of sup- 

 plying non-residents of California with very valuable infor- 

 mation concerning the superior qualities of redwood for 

 inside finishing purposes, as well as for its lasting qualities in 

 any department of industrial art. 



Humboldt and Mendocino Counties have been thoroughly 



