REDWOOD LUMBERING. 5 



ing purposes. They state that the flinty redwood of the 

 southern portion of the belt is difficult to dress, and nail, even 

 while the lumber is in its green or unseasoned state. For 

 railroad ties and posts, however, the southern wood answers 

 well. As a demonstration of this fact, at J. P. Pierce's Coffin 

 Manufactory in Santa Clara the best quality, in a finely fin- 

 ished style, is manufactured from Humboldt lumber, although 

 Mr. Pierce has a saw-mill on the San Lorenzo river, in the 

 Santa Cruz mountains. 



The area of redwood timber in the lower counties is cir- 

 cumscribed at best, most of it having been cut in earlier days 

 to satisfy the demand for farming purposes, and not so far to 

 be transported by water and teams. While not wishing to 

 depreciate the value of our southerly neighbors' lumber prod- 

 uct, it is but justice to the uninformed abroad to give the 

 facts as they really exist. 



Under the most flatttering aspect of affairs taking into 

 consideration the present sparsely timbered section along the 

 southern Coast Range there is no lumber fit to export to 

 foreign ports, nor do their lumber manufacturers have an 

 ambition to compete for such trade. 



It is only necessary for parties at all interested to visit 

 the southern and northern parts of the California redwood 

 belt, to at once become convinced of the superiority of the 

 quality of redwood grown in the higher latitudes 



While we do not claim that for all purposes redwood 

 lumber is the best, we do claim that for the larger proportion 

 of work for which lumber is required, the redwood stands the 

 highest. 



