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The Flood Disaster

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Back in California, several mills sus. tained major damage, many o{ them vet. erans of the 1955 flood.

Besides the Pacific Lumber Company disaster at Scotia, \'[orrison Jackson suffer'ed severe damage from the wrath of the Eel River, but fortunately their log deck hung up not far downstream from the mill. Over in the Hoopa area, Humboldt Fir was badly flooded, losing most of its inventory and log deck, as did Big 4 Lumber Co.

Other Damage

At the mouth of the Eel, Eel Rivcr Salvmills was prat:tically leveled by the record flood waters hearing houses, cars. dead cattle and most oI Pacific Lumber's loe deck rr'hich rame thunderins down thrrirer like a thousand battering rams leveling everything in sight inr:luding half of the new Ed River span.

At Fortuna, Reid & Wright sufiered a heavy loss of in\rentory on sticks at Crown Redwood, and Fortuna Wood Products re. ceived a staggering blorv {rom flood waters.

It was much the same storv at Dinsmort' whr.re Crawford Lumht.r losi logs. lumber and sustained considerable damaee to its grctrr chain. dry kilns and planei. Less"r damage was reported by Sound Stud Co., also at Dinsmore.

Farther inland at Hoppy Camp, Siskiyou Mills reported flooding and loss oI lumber and logs.

Add to this numerous cases of lt:sser flooding, considcrable timber blow down. uncountable miles of logging road washouts and you've got a general idea of things to come.

Higher prir:es. of course, are already a {act. In redwood the situation is perhaps the bleakest. Although Mcndocino Countv producers ,",,r" r"laiiv"ly unaffected, rail and highway connections still intact, the bulk of the production rcmains isolated to the north. To further complicate the situation, several Mendocino producers arc dept'n<lcnt t,n Humboldt Coirnty- for their log supply.

The fir and pine supply looks better, rvith all major inland highways open and the rail service back in operation. Logging, especially in Oregon, is the problem here and it's just about impossiblc to tell at this point how bad tht: logging shows were damaged-or just how much mort' rain we can expcct. A good gue-ss might be 60 percent of the retlwood production and 20 percent of the fir production ofi the market at the prest'nt time.

Dwindling log decks and lack of access to timber stands should result in a pretty interesting market come Spring.