Following $10 million North Coast repair iob The Lumber Trains Are Rolling Again

orest products from California's north coastal area besan moving out in normal volume to markets all across the country June 16" for the first time since the devast' ating Christmas week floods,

On that date the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, on which the lumber industry of Humboldt County alone depends for transportation of 74 percent of its annual $160 million output, was re-opened after 177 days of repair work by some 800 men and 500 pieces of equipment in the lO0-mile Eel River Canyon south of Eureka. The iob, which involved restoration of three major bridges carried away by the raging waters oI the Eel River, and numerous stretches in which both track and roadway were obliterated, cost over $I0 million.

At South Fork, some 40 miles south of Eureka, federal, state and local dignitaries, officials of the lumber industry and rnore than 3,000 others joined officials of the NWP in a ceremonial re-driving of the original solid gold spike which was used more than a half century ago when the line was first completed.

' The historic gold spike-which rested for more than 50 years in the archives of the Southern Pacific, parent of Northwestern Pacific-was originally presented to the NWP by the citizens of Humboldt. It was the last spike driven on the NWP to connect Humboldt County and the North Coast timber-produ,cing area with the San Francisco Bay Area when the railroad was first'completed Octomber 23, 1914.

Prior to the ceremony, the spike was certified as solid gold (with a light silver hardening alloy since solid gold would not hold into spike form) by Humboldt State College.

Immediately after the .rails were syntbolically joined in the gold-spike celebration, a 75-car train dubbed the ooNorth Coast Lum,ber Special" rumbled past the speakers s:and with more than three-million board feet of lumber from the forests of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. This represents sufficient lumber to build about 340 ordinary homes.

The NWP has notified its shippers that it is now accepting carload dead freight from points north and south of South Fork. All freight accepted, however, may be subject to delay, the railroad reports.

This means that shippers, whose rail ser- vice has ,been disrupted since the floods wiped out 100 miles of NWP line December 22, may load cars and move them to market through the Eel River Canyon. The embargo on LCL and perishables will remain in effect until a later date.

This action cancels the embargo issued December 23, when all less-than-carload freight and carload freight to or from points north of Ukiah was refused as a result of the washout.

Reopening of the railroad will be good news to the entire North Coast area. In Humboldt County alone, lumbering supports 73.3 percent of the economy and more than 50 percent of total employment. Resumption of rail freight service will open the way for restoration of some 2,00O timber-industry jobs and some $240,000 in weekly payrolls.

Before the floods, 74 per cent of the area's total lumber production moved to market by Northwestern Pacific. This con' stituted 80 per cent of NWP's traffic. Since the floods, some of the lumber production has been diverted to highways but produc' tion has'been greatly curtailed pending opening of the railroad.

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