34 REDWOOD LUMBERING. 



purchased at wharf in San Francisco, cost (for c'ear) from 

 $28 to $30 per M. Taking the higher price, then, as a 

 standard, and adding overland charges, the best of clear red- 

 wood is landed in New York and Boston at $50 per M- 

 White pine first quality, " uppers " in the same markets, 

 brings $55 per M. So it is seen that there is a growing 

 disposition to substitute in its stead, as a favorite material in 

 its line, our California specialty, the redwood. In ten years 

 lime yes, say six years or when the Panama Canal will be 

 able to afford cheap transportation, the redwood will, without 

 doubt, be so thoroughly appreciated in the East, and in the 

 European countries the demand for it will be such, as will 

 astonish those who now predict our forests are sufficiently 

 extensive to supply the world with timber for one hundred 

 years. 



LOGGING IN THE REDWOODS. 



To parties in the eastern lumbering districts who are 

 unacquainted with the method of felling, sawing, and hand- 

 ling the monster redwoods, the photographic views herein 

 contained will give a clearer idea of operations, as carried on, 

 than fifty pages of explanation in print. The detail work 

 cannot well be represented in a limited space. 



Almost the first thought passing in one's mind, as he 

 enters a virgin forest of redwoods, is one of pity that such a 

 wonderful creation of nature should be subject to the greed 

 of man for gold. The same feelings of awe pervade one's 

 being upon his first introduction to this apparently exhaust- 

 less army of giants, that impress the beholder of Niagara, 



