74 REDWOOD LUMBERING. 



The receipts and consumption, as shown in the forego- 

 ing table, only give the number of feet arriving at and de- 

 parting from San Francisco, or consumed in the city. No 

 record has been kept of shipments made direct from harbors 

 along the coast of Mendocino and Humboldt Counties to 

 southern ports, to Mexico, South America, Sandwich Islands 

 Australia, China, and Japan. The principal exports have 

 been of clear stuff, large quantities being dispatched to for- 

 eign ports from Humboldt Bay. The foreign demand, in 

 Australia particularly, has almost entirely been for clear 

 rough. In 1883 Australia consumed some 1,500,000 feet of 

 clear, most of which went direct from Humboldt Bay. 



The Redwood Association has only a record of the per- 

 centage of clear received in San Francisco since and includ- 

 ing 1880, up to January, 1884, as follows: 



PER CENT. CLEAR. 



1880 45 



1881 48 



1882 , 50 



1883 51 



From the statistics of the Redwood Association as to 

 the percentage of clear received at San Francisco, together 

 with the amount of clear shipped direct from Humboldt Bay 

 to foreign ports, it is safe to estimate the total percentage of 

 clear manufactured in Humboldt and Northern Mendocino 

 at 60 per cent. In this estimate railroad ties, shingles, split 

 pickets and shakes, all of which are necessarily clear, are not 

 figured. Hence, it will be seen that our estimate of clear 60 

 per cent. given in a preceding page, was rather under than 

 over (he mark. 



