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or departing from that harbor. ' Together with the tugs, two 

 mills having large manufacturing capacity at Eureka, anoth- 

 er at Trinidad Bay, twenty miles further up the Coast ; a 

 complete machine shop ; two lines of logging railroads ; nine 

 logging camps; road graders, and others extending branches 

 and employed upon new ones ; as well as book-keepers, cash- 

 ier, sealers and raftsmen no less than one thousand men 

 draw pay, at an average of $3 per day. In addition to the 

 ready cash required to meet the demands of these workers, is 

 that for paying for the tons of provisions which they consume 

 monthly. Their timber resources have already been men- 

 tioned. 



Next in magnitude of operations come Dolbeer & Car- 

 son. They operate with two mills ; one at Salmon Creek 

 (this creek empties into South Humboldt Bay at its southerly 

 extremity), and the other one of the most complete on the 

 Coast at Eureka, on North Bay. As a timber supply they 

 have in one township, about 10,000 acres, north of Mad 

 River, in which, it is said, an ax has never been used. In ad- 

 dition, they have large reserves on Elk River, Salmon Creek 

 and its tributaries. A stern wheel steamer is utilized for 

 hauling rafts up the bay from their boom on the Elk. In 

 good lumber seasons, when both mills are running at their 

 full capacity, they employ about four hundred men, paying 

 wages, proportionate to the employees, the same as the Cali- 

 fornia Redwood Company. In fact, wages in each depart- 

 ment of labor are the same among all redwood lumbermen on 

 the Coast. Their investment in mills, railways, sailing craft, 

 etc., is large. 



