Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — A Good Market for Redwood. [ARTICLE]

A Good Market for Redwood.

There appears to be a great demand in England for/ California red wood, and while In California the wood is very common and is used for building fences and barns, in England it commands a fancy price. Last week a ship took aboard at Oakland a cargo of more than 1,000,000‘ feet of redwood, and another ship was preparing to take on an even larger load. The shipments were a novelty and a speculation, and if they bring good returns the California lumbermen will have a new avenue of profit opened to than.