REDWOOD LUMBERING. 5! 



which is interspersed throughout the greater portion of the 

 red-wood belt, and seldom manufactured into lumber ; espec- 

 ially the former. The smaller redwoods are also utilised for 

 this purpose, for a redwood that will not measure three feet 

 in diameter is scarcely ever touched by the logger of Hum- 

 boldt and Mendocino Counties. The landing is built in the 

 form of a buttress, facing the railroad track. Timbers used 

 for the purpose range from sixteen to twenty inches in diam- 

 eter. Trees in the rough, fifty or sixty feet long, are hauled 

 to the spot, either by " donkey " or'ox-team, and firmly fram- 

 ed in abutment form. The upper, or surface, timbers are 

 hewn and leveled to correspond with the car-bunks, upon 

 which the logs are rolled or slid by the " donkey," or by the 

 gypsy attachment, to the railway locomotive. The gypsy at- 

 tachment to the locomotive is another and late invention of 

 John Dolbeer, Esq., of the firm of Dolbeer & Carson ; and like 

 the " donkey," for its uses, the gypsy locomotive is now in 

 use wherever large logs are to be handled by rail. 



The ease and rapidity by which a train of logging cars 

 can be handled is marvellous, when these modern inventions 

 are brought into requisition. With their use, the strain upon 

 man and beast, as experienced by the old methods of loading 

 logs, has passed away. 



The landing always has a supply on hand for the train, 

 which comes whistling through the limber, giving a life that 

 relieves one of the monotony of sound that is heard in camp 

 the hack, hack, hack of the chopper, the steady grating of 

 the log saw, the twitter of the "donkey," and the occasional 

 apostrophe of the bull-puncher to his mild-eyed brutes. The 



