Shevlin Pine Sales Gompany

NORTHERN

PONDEROSA PINE (PINUS PONDEROSA)

SUGAR (Gcnuine White) PINE (PINUS L,AUBERTIANA)

Adversity Has a Use

Old man Depression druv Bill an' me slap dab into the arms of Opportunity, which goes to show conclusive, that adversity has a use.

First thing is, we looses our jobs an' can't get us new ones; afore long our kale gives out an' we gits desperate. Then comes a idee.

Now, we owns timber land ,in the high Sierras, which we has never saw; so we concludes to go up thar an'give it the onct over. This we does an' finds our holdin's consists of a hundred acres of first growth manzanity, which is the crookedest wood in the r,vorld, an' well nigh the toughest ; an' a adjoinin' stand of the purtiest red woods )'ou ever clapt eyes on. The idee takes a shape.

'Thout wastin' no time, we gits busy an' Burbanks 'enr -mixss the breed, an' afore you could say "Jack Robinson" we has produced acres an' acres of the grandest timber in California; tall and straight and big it were, like redwood is, and hard same as is manzanita. We is on the right track now. an'knows it.

Well, them big trees grows like mushrooms on a murky clay, so we hires a couple of fallers an' cuts 'em down. Then we builds us thirty miles of double barrel, two way V flume an' shoots our logs down to the mill.

I'm tellin' you, when the mill hands shunts them big timbers back up the flume an' we spreads 'em out on the trillside to clry, we sure has something! Thar they be, all