REDWOOD LUMBERING. 73 



is one for the Pacific Lumber Co., on Eel River, the lumber 

 of which will come over Eel River and Eureka new line of 

 railroad, which also taps the Van Duzen, Yager and other 

 tributaries of the Eel. To the visitor, the timber resources 

 of the Eel and its branches appear inexhaustible, and yet 

 they are doomed to satisfy man's insatiate lust for gold. 



The following table, compiled from statistics furnished by 

 Mr. E. H. Allen, the efficient Secretary of the REDWOOD 

 LUMBER ASSOCIATION at San Francisco, shows the amount 

 of Redwood Lumber (sawed) received at San Francisco for 

 each year since and including the year 1863. Also the low- 

 est price for clear and common or merchantable during the 

 same period, cargo lots. 



Year. Receipts, feet. Consumed, feet. Clear. Common. 



1863 46,039,217 43,022,597 $2600 $1600 



1864 40,425,472 41,591,177 26 oo 17 oo 



1865 53,818,074 53,037,753 2 8 oo 16 oo 



1866 59)245,335 60,174,310 28 oo 18 oo 



1867 70,738,738 66,665,954 3000 2000 



1868 80,617,767 84,754,183 32 oo 20 oo 



1869 90,462,709 81,899,095 26 co 17 oo 



1870. 83,870,673 87,706,213 22 00 13 00 



1871 77.193,265 75,295,952 2300 1400 



1872 94,241,408 89,782,618 30 oo 16 oo 



1873 70,944,837 73,870,244 27 oo 17 oo 



1874 9 2 ,325^576 95,545,49 2500 1500 



1875 116,252,814 110,231,073 30 oo 18 oo 



1876 116,018,070 113,011,014 25 oo 15 oo 



1877 104,240,834 107,330,749 23 oo 13 oo 



1878 93,546,786 92,227,814 22 00 12 00 



1879 87,493,729 88,122,653 18 oo 12 oo 



l88o 80,390,297 80,731,664 20 00 15 CO 



1881 95,414,556 93.565.989 2600 1700 



1882 97,265,434 94,606,063 28 oo 18 oo 



1883 105,272,543 103,195.515 3000 1800 



Total . . 1,755,818,134 1,736,528,120 



