The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-06-06
Lumber Interests of the Pacific Coast.

SO lar as estimates can be made, the
sugar pine mills having connection with
San Francisco could manufacture about
Al ,000, 10000 of feet annually, making q
grand total of over 550, ,00O, 900 of feet,
exclusive of what might be turned out
by the Sonoma County mills along the
route of the North Pacific Coast Rail-
road. It is probable, however, that not
more than one third the amount of lum-
Der estimated above will be manufactur-
ed for the San Francisco market and for
eign export, as the present prospects of
the trade do not warrant the large pro-
ductions of previous years and it is be-
lieved that nearly all the exporting mills
on the coast will this year manufacture
much less than last year. The
amount of business done will
depend largely upon the amount of logs
on hand at the several mills. Those
having none in boom will not be likely
to get out any lumber. Besides the
mills enumerated, there are numerous
mills scattered along the coast and dotted
throughout the State which manufacture
for purely local consumption. These
are commonly of smaller capacity than
the exporting mills, and are frequently
of portable construction, erected for tenn
porary use in small bodies of timber.
The largest pine mill on the coast is at
Port Gamble, Puget Sound, owned by
Pope & Talbot, and the largest redwood
mill at Eureka, Humboldt Bay, the prop
erty of D. r. Jones & Co. Besides the
San Francisco and other home markets,
there is large foreign demand for
Pacific Coast lumber. The Puget
Sound mills offer the best facili
ties for shipment of lumber by
deep water vessels-Dickson, De Wolf &
Co., Welch & Co.; Hanson, Ackerson &
Co., Renton, Holmes & Co.; j. w. Grace
& Co.. Adams & Taylor; Pope & Talbot.
The first two firms, shipping from mills
at Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, are
the principal exporters of Puget Sound
lumber doing business in San Francisco.
The foreign countries to which lumber
is Extensively shipped include Chile,
Peru, Mexico, Australia, Sandwich
Islands, China and Japan. 100000
feet is an approximate estimate of the
foreign export of lumber from Puget
Sound, not including the shipment from
British Columbia ports, for 1878. The
estimate from the books of the American
firms in this city shipping direct. There
is also considerable lumber reshipped to
foreign ports from San Francisco, of
which no account is to be had, and
which is enormously reckoned in
our anaua1 home consumption. Most of
the lumber brought to this city comes by
water. In the Puget Sound and Oregon
trade vessels are employed with carrying
capacities ranging from 25o, 900 to 1, ,0oO,-
600 feet The bark Cassaadro adams,
owned by Adams & Taylor Top Gal
liant, by Renton, Holmes & Co., and the
ship Sycamore, belonging to Pope &
Talbot, have each a carrying capacity of
fully 100000 feet. Trinidad is the
only redwood port of entry shipping by
deep water vessels. Redwood is brought
to this city chiefly by schooners carrying
from so, 900 to 100000 feet, and by rail
and transit lighters from Duncans mill,
Russian River. The number and char
acter of the vessels engaged in the lum-
ber trade is SO constantly fuctuating
that it is impossible to give any list of
them which would be either accurate or
satisfactory.