378 TIMBER BONDS 



C. A. SMITH TIMBER COMPANY, 

 411 Andrus Building. 



C. A. Smitli, President. 



Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 28, 1908. 

 Messrs. Clark L. Poole & Co., 



First National Bank Bldg., Chicago, 111. 

 Gentlemen: 



Complying with your request for general information 

 regarding the C. A. Smith Timber Company and the C. A. 

 Smith Lumber & Manufacturing Company, of Marshfleld. 

 Oregon, as well as myself, I am pleased to submit the fol- 

 lowing: 



The C. A. Smith Timber Company is a corporation in- 

 corporated under the laws of the State of Oregon for three 

 and one-half million dollars, fully paid up. Its general 

 office is at Marshfleld, Oregon. The officers of the company 

 are: 



C. A. Smith, President, Minneapolis. Minn. 



J. E. Oren, Vice-President, Marshfleld, Oregon. 



C. L. Trabert, Secretary, Minneapolis, Minn. 



A. H. Powers, Treasurer. Marshfleld, Oregon. 



This company owns the lands covered by the bond issue 

 of $3,000,000, constituting about 



30,480 acres in Humboldt County, California. 

 45,320 acres in El Dorado County, California. 

 61,760 acres in Coos, Douglas and Curry Counties, 



Oregon. 

 10,640 aci-es in Lincoln County, Oregon. 

 8,000 acres Sugar and Yellow Pine Timber leases 



in El Dorado County, California. 



Total, 156,200 acres. 



The timber on these lands has been thoroughly and care- 

 fully looked over and estimated by men in our employ, most 

 of whom have been in our employ in Minnesota for a long 

 term of years, and according to such estimates they contain 

 approximately 



1,800,000,000 feet of Redwood. 

 1,100,000,000 feet of Sugar and White Pine. 

 5,100,000,000 feet of Fir, Spruce and other kinds of 

 Timber. 



Total, 8,000,000,000 feet. 



According to the best judgment and belief of the esti- 

 mators as per their certificates attached to said estimates 

 filed with you and the Trustees, said timber will cut twenty 



