*** Source: Thompson, Robert A., Historical and descriptive sketch of Sonoma County, California. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1877, 122 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 30--- We now propose to give the number and capacity of the saw-mills of Sonoma county, with an estimate of the amount of standing timber owned by each, commencing with the most northerly mill, coming southward, and thence to the mills on the eastern side of the timber-belt which supplies our local demand. The lumber manufactured on the sea-coast is shipped altogether to San Francisco. First, we have Gualala Mill Company, Haywood E. Harmon, superin- tendent, with a capacity for cutting 30,000 feet of lumber a day. This company owns about two square miles of timber land on the Sonoma side of the river, averaging about 50,000 feet to the acre, say 75,000,000 feet. Next we have the Clipper Mill Company with a capacity of 30,000 feet a day; about 3,000 acres of land belong to this company, which will average 40,000 feet to the acre, say 125,000,000 feet. The Platt Mill Company has a cutting capacity of 30,000 feet a day, and 1,500 acres of land which will average 75,000 feet to the acre, say 112,000,000 feet. Between the last named mill, which is located at Stewart's point, a shipping place on the coast and Russian river, a distance of twenty miles, there are dif- ferent bodies of timber, the most valuable of which belongs to a G. W. Call, of Fort Ross; it lies north of Black mountain, contains 400 acres, and will yield at least 30,000,000 feet; other lots will aggregate say 100,000,000 feet, a total from Stewart's point to Russian river, of 125,000,000 feet. Total of all timber between the Valhalla and Russian river, 437,000,000 feet. Duncan's mill, formerly A. Duncan & Co., now Duncan's Mill, Land, and Lumber Company, is building a new mill on the north side of Russian river at a point where the North Pacific Railroad bridge crosses the river; they own on that side of the river 3,600 acres of land, which will yield a total of say 216,000,000 feet. The tract of land known as the Moore Brother's tract, now the property of the Russian River Land and Lumber Association, has two mills upon it, the largest with a capacity of 30,000 feet per day; the other, known as Stewart's mill, with a capacity for cutting 20,000 feet per day. This company owns 9,000 acres of land lying south of Russian river, and west of Howard's caņon, upon which there is, say 450,000,000 feet of lumber. We now purpose to give an estimate of the timber in the Bodega district, south of Russian river, and north of Howard's caņon. Meeker Bros. & Co. have 2,800 acres, upon which there is 170,000,000 feet. Duncan, Bixby & Co. have 1,100 acres, on which there is 45,000,000 feet. On the Jonive ranch there is left about 30,000,000 feet; on the Bodega ranch about 20,000,000; J.K . Smith's tract 10,000,000; Latham & Streeten's tract, 10,000,000; scattering outside lands held by various owners, say 60,000,000. Total in the Bodega country and north of Howard's caņon, 345,000,000 feet. In the timber section opposite Guerneville, on Russian river, R. E. Lewis owns 220 acres of land, which will cut 60,000 feet to the acre; a total of 10,800,000 feet. The Madrona Company have a tract of land of about 1,000 acres, with an *** end ***