Big "Prosperity SpeciaL"

the line of the California Western railroad to Willits, where it rvas taken over by the Northwestern Pacific.

The fifty cars carried approximately 1,10O,000 feet of milled lumber and six locomotives were pressed into service to move it.

At each stopping place, where cars were dropped off, elaborate ceremonies were conducted under the auspices of local ,chambers of commerce and service clubs, with bands and crowds of citizens on hand to fittingly welcome the train and speed the ".corpse" to his final resting place.

Officials of the Northwestern Pa'cific, who handled the train declared it to be the largest unit shipment of Redwood lumber in the history of the industry.

Newspapers throughout California featured the "Prosperity Special" and the Union Lumber Co. for its enterprise in arranging for it with commendatory articles, while the story of the return of prosperity to.the Redwood Empire was flashed over the wires by the Associated Press, United Press and other wire news agencies.