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" Until within the last year, all this labor of handling logs 

 in the woods has been done with cattle, but now they are in 

 many places using steam for the purpose. The machine used 

 is ' Dolbeer's Patent Steam Logging Machine.' It consists 

 of an upright boiler and engine, somewhat similar to a porta- 

 ble hoisting engine, except that instead of a reel to wind the 

 rope on, it has two ' gypsy heads,' one on each end of the 

 reel shaft. It sits on a strong frame, the sides of which are 

 like sled runners. It has a strong purchase from the engine 

 to the 'gypsy' shaft. To move the machine around in the 

 woods, they run a line ahead, make it fast to a tree or stump, 

 take two or three turns around the 'gypsy,' and start up the 

 engine. In this way it hauls itself wherever wanted. When 

 the machine is in place, it is made fast to a tree or stump, and 

 a line run to the log to be removed, and by means of snatch- 

 blocks the log is hauled in any direction desired. By use of 

 this machine heavy logs are brought out of ravines and bad 

 places, where it would be almost impossible to get them with 

 oxen or horses. 



" Our redwood mills are generally up to the times. All the 

 modern improvements of double circulars, gang saws, pony 

 saws, gang edgers and trimmers are in use. While double 

 circulars are used in nearly all the redwood mills, many mills 

 on Humboldt Bay are using, besides, what is called ' Evans' 

 Third Saw.' This is a saw hung on a horizontal arbor above 

 the double circulars, and cuts down from the top of the log 

 to a little below the arbor of the middle saw. While, of 

 course, it is parallel to the two lower saws, its cut is made 

 four inches out further into the log. Besides this saw there 

 is a fourth smaller saw, which is hung on a perpendicular arbor, 



