*** 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 31--- estimated amount of standing lumber equal to 55,000,000 feet; their mill has a capacity of 35,000 feet per day. S. H. Torrence has about 60 acres, which will cut, say 60,000 feet to the acre; total, 3,600,000 feet. Henry Beaver has 120 acres which will average 60,000 feet, say 7,200,000 feet; other parties on Pocket caņon, say 15,000,000 feet. Total timber opposite Guerneville, and in Pocket caņon, 33,000,000 feet. On the north side of Russian river, from Dutch Bill creek to Hurlbut caņon, 700 acres averaged 60,000 feet, equal to a total of 42 000,000 feet. In Hurlbut caņon 2,000 acres at 60,000 feet to the acre, 120,000,000 feet. In the Big Bottom, near Guerneville, W. H. Willets has 160 acres of bottom land which will cut 15,000,000 feet. H. T. Hewitt has 160 acres which will cut 10,000,000 feet. R. B. Lunsford has 200 acres, say 12,000,000 feet. Heald & Guerne, beside their Hurlbut-caņon timber, have 360 acres which will average 60,000 feet, a total of 21,600,000 feet; Murphy Bros. 15,000,000; Ike and Tom Smith 120 acres, 60,000 feet to the acre, 7,200,000 feet; J. B. Armstrong 420 acres, 20,000,000 feet; James Peugh 40 acres bottom land, 60,000,000; H. Specker- man 40 acres, say 4,000,000 feet; J. K. Wood, 160 acres, 6,4000,000 feet; Henry Miller 200 acres, 60,000 feet to the acre, 12,000,000; S. B. Torrence 20 acres, 150,000 feet to the acre, 3,000,000 feet. In Elliott caņon, Korbel Bros. own land which will yield 22,000,000; John Beaver 60 acres, which will cut about 5,000,000 feet. On Mill creek the Marshall timber will cut about 15,000,000 feet. There are three large saw-mills near Guerneville. Korbel Bros'. mill with a capacity of 30,000 feet a day; Murphy Bros. with a capacity of 30,000 feet; Heald & Guerne's mill with a capacity of about 30,000 feet a day. In Bodega township there are four mills, Meeker Bros., Ben Joy, and J. K. Smith's, with a capacity each for sawing 15,000 feet of lumber a day, and another mill, owned by Frank Gilford, with a capacity of about 4,000 feet a day. It is estimated by lumbermen that when the timber is cut, cord-wood left standing on the land will make more freight than the lumber did. The cutting capacity of all the mills in the county, with an estimate of their annual production of lumber is herewith given. The mills are not run more than nine months in the year, and not up to their full capacity. STEAM SAW-MILLS--CAPACITY--ANNUAL PRODUCT. Gualala mill................capacity 30,000 feet.....annual product.... 5,000,000 Clipper mill................capacity 30,000 feet.....annual product.... 5,000,000 Platt's mill................capacity 30,000 feet.....annual product.... 5,000,000 Duncan's Mill L. & L. A.....capacity 30,000 feet.....annual product.... 5,000,000 Russian River L. & L. A.....capacity 30,000 feet.....annual product.... 5,000,000 Streeten's mill ............capacity 30,000 feet.....annual product.... 4,000,000 Heald & Guerne's mill.......capacity 30,000 feet.....annual product.... 4,000,000 Murphy Bros. mill ..........capacity 30,000 feet.....annual product.... 5,000,000 Korbel Bros. mill ..........capacity 30,000 feet.....annual product.... 5,000,000 J. K. Smith's mill..........capacity 12,000 feet.....annual product.... 2,000,000 Ben Joy's mill..............capacity 12,000 feet.....annual product.... 2,000,000 *** end ***