C. R. Johnron Trce Famr Dedicated

these two farms include just a bit more than 65,000 acres' one thousand for each year of operation by Union Lumber Company, founded by C. R. Johnson. Active in the dedication, also most appropriatelv were his son, Otis R. Johnson, president of Union Lumber Company and C. Russell Johnson, his grandson, in control of the company's Mendocino operations.

'Ihe dedication ceremonies lvere under the auspices of l{edrvood Circle No. I of the Mendocitro Coast, the first unit of the Redwood Region Conservation Association to be organized in the county. The dedication was very much a conrmunity afiair. The actual ceremonies were sponsored by the California Redwood Association which certified the C. R. Johnson Tree Farms. The company provgd a graceful and thoughtful host. 2000 guests traveled up the Noyo ltiver on flat cars and in coaches over the tracks of the California Western Railrval' to Redwood Lodge where the ceremonies were hetd. That ten mile trip on a perfect spring day through an incomparably beautiful forest in the full panoply of floral decoration was a memorable treat to the guests. Most of thern preferred the hard benches of the flats rather than the comforts of the coaches. The tunch was just as advertised-a lumberman's meal, good in both quality and quantity.

A corps of industry, state and government foresters under the able direction of Professor Emanuel Fritz (Mr. Redrvood, himself) took the guests on tours enabling them to see a tree farm in being. They u'ill never forget what they saw there and what they heard there.

Fort Bragg, May l9-Just a little more than 65 years ago a young man with a vision and the zeal to make it a reality established here a logging and mill operation norv rvidely known as one of the biggest and m.ost progressive enterprises in the redwood forests of the coast'

That man was C. R. Johnson and most appropriately the two largest tree farms in the redwood region have been dedicated here today rs his finest memorial, the C. R. Johnson Tree Farms, one unit on the Noyo river and the other on Big River. It is more than a coincidence that

The actual ceremonies rvere impressive with the speakers flanked by a distinguished group of public officials, lumber industry leaders and representatives of national and state conservation organizations. The guests were welcomed by Judge Lilburn Gibson of the Superior Court of Mendocino 'County.

The certificates for the C' R. Johnson Tree Farms were presented to Otis R' Johnson, president of Union Lumber Company by Gordon Manary, chairman of the Tree Farm Committee of the California Redw.rod Association' As master of ceremonies, Shern"ran A' Bishop,-general manager of the California Redrvood Association did a graceful