The Big Redwood Trip

The morning of July 18, was the starting of the retail lumber dealers of the Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and Central California Lum,berm,en's Clubs, together with their families and friends, frorn their respective localities by automobile, on their trip to the Redwood Region of Humboldt County as the guests of the California Redwood, Association. According to schedule, the ertire party arrived at the popular Pop McCrea Resort shortly after noon, where they enjoyed an excellent chicken luncheon. After luncheon, the entire party left for Willits over the scenic Redwood Highway, where t'hey arrived at 4:3O p. m. Here the party was met by Paul S. Foster and W. H. Foster, Of the Northwestern Redwood Company, who escorted the party through the planing mill and their yard, where ar inspection was'made of the lumber stocks at their Willit plant. In the evening, dancing was enjoyed in the lob;by of the Williis Hotel,.with nrusic furnished by a local oi.chestra. Tuesday morning, found the party journying northward agai:r through the picturesque C,oast Range Mountains of Mendocino County, arriving at Richardson Grove about noon, to enjoy a chicken luncheon under the Giant Redrvoods as the :girests of the California Redwood Association. Tuesday afternoon brought the party irto Humboldt County, and a beautiful fifty mile drive through the wonderful stands of virgin Redwood timber. About 5;SO p. m. the party arrived at their destination, Eureka, wrirere they were tret by the various large gatherings of reipresentatives of the various Redwood manufacturers of Humboldt County. Wednesday morning, the visiting lumbermen inspected the rnills of the Holm,es-Eureka, Little Siver, Dolbeer-C.arsor, J. R. Hanify, and Hammond Lumber Company mills, where they got a close up view of the industry, from the sawing of the large redwood logs to the finished product. An inspection'was also,made of the shed and yard stocks at the various plants visited. fn the afternoon, the Jim Farley Redwood Special was Chartered, and the lumbermen made dhe trip to the Freshwater Logging Camp of The,Pacific Lumber Company, where they had their first view of redwood logging on a giganrtic scale by electricity. Felling of the larger redwoods was also watched with much irterest; and an inspection of the camp and living quarters of the men was also made. The visiting ladies, who did not wish to inspect the mill and logging opentions, .had an interesting automobile trip driving around Eureka and the surrounding country; there were about twenty ladies who m,ade dhe :automobile 'trip, with Mrs. Fred Holmes, Mrs. T. W. Hind, and Mrs. Percy Bur:rs acting'as hosts. Luncheon was served for the ladies at the Arcada Flotel, Arcada. On Wednesday evening, a dinner dan,ce and business ,session was held in the main dining room of the Eureka Inn, as gues'ts of the Califorria Redwood Association. H. W. Cole, of the Little River Redwood Lumber Company, Crannall, gave an excellent address of welcome to the visitors and also acted as master of ceremonies during the evening. R. F. Wells, of Turlock, President of the Central California Lumbermenrs CIub and Manager of the West Turlock Mill ard Lum,ber Co., responded and expressed his appreciation and thanks to the Redwood Association and the lum'bermen of Humboldt County for their wonderful hospitality and for t'he great time enjoyed by all. T. W. Hind, of the HolmesEureka Lumber Company, Eureka, spoke on "Redwood from the Manufacturers Standpoint." Mr. Hind confined his remarks to the Coast Redwoods and discu,ssed the geographical distribution and physical characteristi,cs of this species. He spoke on Redwood logging conditions and high costs of the various operations in felling; peeling the logs; extinguishing fires; sawing the logs; loading on cars; and the transportation of the logs over the mountain grades to the mills. He also com{pared ,the logging and manufacturing conditions of Douglas Fir with Redwood. In referring to the Red,wood manufacturers service to the retail lumber dealer; he stated that the retailer was always certain of his source of supply; they were sure of getting the proper grades; and that their product was not subject to sudden price fluctuations. Mr. Hind advised that for the past ten years, the members of the Redwood Asso-

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