/ Holmes Eureka Lumber Company,

"Volume is not our big talking point," said Fred Holmes, of the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Company, when The California Lumber Merchant asked for material and facts for this story. "In fact, volume of production is the greatest curse of the lumber industry, as every lumberman knows. A small, controlled production that can be closely guarded as to quality and yet allow the giving of ample and satisfactory service to our trade, is what this concern has always aimed at, and, I believe, attained in our present operations. We believe this to be far preferable to volume production and market flooding. We likewise believe in, and always practice, curtailment, when demand falls off. Our trees are of high quality, great value, and limited quantity. We don't believe in sacrificing them."

The speaker is the son of the founder of the truly great Redwood concern which is called The Holmes-Eureka Lumber Company. His father, Mr.J. H. Holmes, is President of the concern, and has always been since its inception.

This concern really presents an excellent object lesson in sawmilling. It is an example of where two men with faith in a product and in themselves, gathered together enough money and credit to engage in a sawmill operation, and, by running their own business root and branch, giving every detail their close personal attention, and sticking intelligently as well as doggedly to their task, brought fine success from a hazardous undertaking.

J. H. Holmes and T. W. Hine, President and Vice President respectively, were both experienced in the lumber business in Arizona, when they decided to pool their money and their efforts in the manufacture of California Redwood. Convinced that because of the fine inherent qualities of Redwood it should have a great future as a manufacturing industry, they selected this wood to make their big try.

And in 1904 they bought their first timber, and built their first sawmill plant on a carefully selected site on Humboldt Bay. George Cartwright built the mill, a single band affair with no re-working facilities. From that start, with a total capital of $100,000 this business has developed into one of the most respected and successful sawmill operations in California, with total assets of approximately $2,500,000.

Likewise the mill grew. The single band mill has developedunder the supervision of Mr. Cartwright, into a vitally efficient Redwood plant, not a huge mill, but one capable of most efficient operation. The re-manufacturing plant is all electrically driven, and everything is modern in the extreme. They cut an average of 110,000 feet of Redwood daily, and they operate six specially constructed dry kilns that have a capacity of 6@,000 feet a month. There are big storage sheds ample for the carryingof complete stocks-siding, rustic, finish, and mouldings are always ready in quantity for quick shipment-and they have an air drying yard where from fifteen to twenty million feet of lumber is always on hand.

The yard is a beauty. They have long, straight alleys, and every stick of lumber is in its proper place. There is a demonstration of great care in handling lumber, manifested in the very appearance of the piles. There are fine, straight alleys of lumber a mile long. The lumber is handled about