54 KEDWOOD LUMBERING. 



Korbell Brotners & Company's road, operating for the 

 Humboldt Lumber Company (in the latter of which they are 

 large share-holders), and for Minor & Kirk, and Chandler & 

 Henderson, the first two companies' mills being located on the 

 north fork of Mad River, is about twenty miles long, includ- 

 ing branches. 



Both the Vance and Korbell railroads cross Mad River, 

 and have bridges which have added materially to the expense 

 of construction. On Ryan's Slough, Jansen & Co. have five 

 miles of railroad. In Mendocino County, L. E. White, at 

 Whitesboro, has twelve miles of road. At Gualala, the Mill 

 Company has fourteen miles, and on the Albion, Henry 

 Wetherbee operates six miles of railroad. All of these lum- 

 bermen extend their roads from year to year, as necessities 

 demand. 



A train carrying logs or lumber, as the case maybe, 

 travels at a speed of about fifteen miles an hour. The Eel 

 River and Eureka Railroad, terminating at Humboldt Bay, 

 built the past summer, will, in the near future, transport lum- 

 ber manufactured on the Eel and Van Duzen Rivers, and 

 their tributaries. Mills operating upon these streams must, 

 from the very nature of things, build branch roads for logging, 

 as the timber has an immense growth, and cannot be han- 

 dled economically by any other method. 



Bonner, in his " Wonder-Land," referring to the trans- 

 porting of redwood logs to the mills on Humboldt Bay, says: 

 " Having seen one of these dumps, or landings, towards the 

 close of the cutting season, with its countless number of 

 huge logs, in all of which scarcely a limb or knot is visible ; 



