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206                REPORT   OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST.

                        Statement  Showing the Lumber Product of Humboldt County for the Year ending
                                                      December  31, 1889.
                                                             Lumber-    Shingles.  Shakes.    Posts.
                                                               Feet.

                        McKay & Co.                          11,568,189  5,000,000
                        Blue Lake Mill                     .            16,000,000
                        Flanigan  Brosnan & Co.*       .      6,720,395  16,590,000  *  560,000  835,000
                        Excelsior Redwood Co.t               17,803,366  30,900,850  3,616,377  28,414
                        Harpst & Spring __  _              .            32,162,000  3,886,250
                        Humboldt Lumber Mill Co              10,644,426  4,620,300               3,532
                        Riverside Lumber Co                .  6,151,199   700,000
                        Glendale Mill                         7,119,000  5,700,000  126,675      1,970
                        Warren Creek Mill %
                        J. G. Loveren                 .                 19,000,000
                        Elk River Mill Co                     7,688,897
                        E. R. Valley Lumber Co.  _            8,751,753  8,000,000  484,000
                        John Vance .    '.                   13,561,256  15,544,500  3,005,017   36,235
                        Dolbeer & Carson                   .  14,178,749  15,829,750  1,751,600  14,000
                        Pacific Lumber Co.          -        21,000,000  25,000,000           1,000,000
                        Fay Brothers         ..  ._                     3,400,000  3,118,000
                        Cutten & McDonald                               5,500,000
                        A. Corbett                                      10,000,000  100,000      5,000
                        J. L. Maurer                                    10,000,000
                        Swortzell & Williams                            3,920,000   400,000
                        Rollev & Sons                 ._  __  .         14,000,000
                        Port Kenyon Mill                      1,770,280  19,954,250  10,000
                          Totals                            126,957,510  261,821,650  17,057,919  1,924,151


                           In addition to the quantities set out in the above table, the following
                        list, not classified under the several headings, are among the products
                        of the various mills:

                          Lincoln Mill:  15,000 doors;  9,500 windows ; 2,000,000 linear feet moldings;  6 portable
                        houses.
                          Eureka Lumber  Manufacturing  Co.:  3,000 doors;  2,000 windows;  1,200,000  linear  feet
                        moldings;  500,000 shingles ; 500,000 laths.
                          Swortzell & Williams:  1,200 doors;  800 windows;  500,000 linear feet moldings.
                          Fay Bros. :  500,000 laths.
                          John Vance:  79,517 pickets.
                          A. Corbett:  1,000 cords spruce bolts.

                                                          Dairying.
                           This is an interest of great importance, a considerable portion of the
                        county being well adapted to this particular industry.       The butter pro-
                         duced is highly appreciated in the San Francisco market, and the amount
                         annually exported from the county amounts to upwards of two million
                         pounds.   Two creameries    have recently been erected and are now in
                         operation for the manufacture of butter.

                                                        Wool Growing.
                           Prominent   among the industries of the county is the growing of wool;
                         there is no superior in quality  on the Pacific   Coast.   Back of the red-
                         wood section is the greater portion of the wool-raising part of the county;-
                         the country is well watered and affords the best of pasturage for sheep,
                         of which there were one hundred and forty-one thousand and eighty-one
                         in the county, as shown by the assessment roll of 1889.     The annual clip
                         LB about eight hundred and sixty-five thousand pounds.
                          *  Burned September, issm.
                          t Machinery  improved, and can now cut eighty thousand feet per day.
                          J Did not run.
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