VOL. 10.
JANUARY 17,. 1908.
NO. 30
imornia
Sees Redwood Trees and is
Amazed
My name is Timothy Pickles, at ; least
that was or is my baptismal name, but
;seldom indeed do I find myself dignified
by being addressed as a gentleman. I
am commonly known as "Tim" or"Pick"
in fact, .so .general has become the us
age of my. "nick names", that when by
spine strange chance: I find myself ad
dressed as Mr. Timothy Pickles I pinch
myself to make sure I am not dreaming.
But enough of this, for I must tell of a
trip I once made from Chemawa to Hum
boldt County, California.
I went to Portland, Ore., where I took
passage on the Steamer Alliance for
Eureka, on Humboldt Bay. Eureka is
the county seat, or city where all public
business is attended. It i a city of
nearly 20,000 inhabitants and I found
it a very bustling place.'.
The bay is not large, but there are
' always many ocean-going vessels lying
the harbor. These craft engage in
both coast and foreign trade. The ves
sels plying between Eureka and foreign
ports for the most part.carr.y, cargoes of
redwTood lumber;. This trade in, the last
forty years has grown to be - something
enormous, and redwood lumber in the
variousmarkets of the world has assist
ed materially in .making the big trees of
California famous.
Naturally, I wanted to see.these giants
of the forest (sequoia giganta) and; went
out to one of the large lumbering camps
on Eel river, nearly forty miles from
Eureka. Here I found several hundred
men engaged at felling the large tres,
peeling, sawing them in proper length
logs for lumber, "snaking" the logs out
on skidways with donkey engines, load
ing them onto logging cars and drawing
them to the mills with locomotives.
The mill I visited was operated day
and . night and was capable . of cutting
several hundred thousand feet of lumber
every twenty -four hours. All through
the mill were "live rollers" and the
finest machinery suggested by the en
genuity of man for handling these. great
logs. Logs twenty feet in diameter are
handled: with ease and facilty.
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