7*2 REDWOOD LUMBERING. 



During the cutting season, he employs about two hundred 

 men. Wetherbee's timber possessions on the Albion and 

 Noyo Rivers and their tributaries amount to about 18,000 

 acres. Of this sum, four thousand acres have been logged. 

 There are other redwood lumber interests in Mendocino 

 County, but special mention is not necessary, even had we 

 space in these columns to do so. 



Through inadvertence, we have failed to mention in the 

 foregoing list of heavy lumbermen at Eureka, Humboldt 

 County, the name of John Vance. He is one of the pioneer 

 redwood lumbermen of the northern belt, and was the first to 

 introduce in his locality the logging railroad by which to sup- 

 ply mills on Humboldt Bay. His old saw-mill at Eureka is 

 still a monument of his early enterprise. Although it has a 

 shaky appearance, and its interior works are of an ancient 

 style, it produces some 30,000 feet per day of as good red- 

 wood lumber as finds its way to market. His Mad River 

 railroad supplies this mill from his tract on the Mad. The 

 logs are dumped into a slough or arm of the north bay, and 

 then rafted by the assistance of a stern wheeler to the store- 

 grounds at Eureka. Another mill of about the same capac- 

 ity as the old one is in operation on the north side of Mad 

 River, and also supplied from the same tract of timber, which, 

 for quality and quantity per acre is not excelled. Mr. Vance 

 employs at his two mills, on the railroad, and in logging 

 camps, from four to five hundred men. Then there is the 

 Occidental Mill Company at Eureka, employing indirectly 

 one hundred men ; Flanigan & Brosman, a like number. 



In addition to these mills there are three or four to be 

 constructed during another season ; the largest contemplated 



