Mendocino
Lumber Co.
Dear Sirs —
Your letters of the 12, 13 and 14th are at hand.
On account of bad roads, the mail gets in late in
the evening now.
I returned yesterday
after a hard trip to the woods. The river is up
some but has not been high enough yet to drive logs.
There was nearly a full head of water let off the
East Branch dam last week and the dam was to be
full last night so that I hope by this time the
logs are driven out. On the main river we will not
get logs unless there is a large freshet as the
logs are not sacked in. Perkins has driven most
of his logs out of the gulch where his dam is. He
let off two heads last week and the dam was full
when I was there but the logs were not sacked in.
It rained last night and looks so much like a heavy
rain now that I think Perkins will drive out about
all his logs and they will come down. The Swan
finished loading yesterday noon. Emma ...is
outside. The Electra will not be able to
take lumber until the Swan gets away and
by that time it may be rough.
I had a long talk
with Perkins and went over the lumber he is going
to put in this year. It is good size and will turn
out more clear than last year. If we are willing
to advance him $3 on all logs over the 8000 he puts
in this year, I think he will agree to deduct 20%
from all logs he put in this year. The scaler will
take the size and length of the log and thus he
feeds in 1260 ft to the saw. He is coming in the
last of the month so let me know your news on this
matter.
