Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — 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 ir very common and is used for building fences and barns, In England 11 commands a fancy price. Last week a ship took aboard at Oakland a cargo of more than 1,000,000 feet of red. wood, 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 te tkm,.