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Referring to the starting of logs from their beds, we may 

 as well state here that the more modern method of removing 

 the massive redwood is by steam donkeys. A simple though 

 strong attachment to the ordinary donkey boiler and engine, 

 known as a " gipsy," and upon which a patent has been issued 

 to John Dolbeer, Esq., of Dolbeer & Carson, Humboldt lum- 

 bermen, is now generally adopted by redwood loggers in 

 removing logs from localities difficult to reach by ox teams. 

 In fact, the improvement has caused a decided reduction of 

 teams formerly in use in the logging camps. By making 

 fast the " donkey " to a stump, logs are " started " from their 

 beds, be they ever so inaccessible of approach by a logging 

 team. In the large logging operations of the California Red- 

 wood Company, John Vance, Dolbeer & Carson, Korbell & 

 Co., Minor & Kirk, Falk & Havvley, and other lumbermen of 

 Humboldt County, as well as Henry Wetherbee, Tichenor & 

 Co., Heywood & Harmon, and L. E. White, lumbermen of 

 Mendocino County, this valuable adjunct is in constant use. 



The donkey is built upon a frame, having shoes like a sled 

 runner. It can be moved from one place to another in the 

 timber by its own power, simply by running a rope from it to a 

 tree or stump, and starting up the engine. The power is suffi- 

 cient to break a five-inch manila rope. Experience shows it 

 will do more work than a ten-ox team, at much less expense. 

 By the use of snatch blocks, logs are hauled in any direction. 

 This invention was patented in April, 1882. 



Returning to our descriptive inventory of the logging 

 crew, from which we have at some length digressed in order 

 to illustrate some of the special traits of the ox-teamster, we 



