Part 83, page 151

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[guess: SC] — 164-58

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[left column, partially cut off] Bragg, Mendocino, Albion, Gualala, Greenwood (later re- named Elk) and Little River. They mushroomed to help sate the growing demand for wood from the gigantic trees which redate Christ — for wood which was fire resistant, a vir- ue especially prized in San Francisco, where fires so de- astated the city. Some red- ood trees could furnish nough lumber to build 20 five- oom houses.

[center column] The coast is the wandering ground for the ghosts of ships and of old brave captains and crewmen who lost their lives in their small schooners engaging in the hazardous occupation of maneuvering their craft into small, wind and wave-swept coves, avoiding reefs and tak- ing on heavy loads of lumber. Fires at sea, collisions, shifting cargoes, storms, fog, rocks and tides also logged their roll call of death.

[right column, partially cut off] Now, soft tourists bait thei[r] hooks in chartered boats (o[r] have them baited for them) i[n] calm seas, or cast from saf[e] beaches, or tremble at the fur[y] of the storms, or enjoy th[e] Westport Union Landing Stat[e] Beach, an undeveloped, 32-acr[e] sea frontage site. Tourist rois- tering cannot reach the roaring crescendo of the lumber towns when the seamen and lumber- men clicked their mugs and brawled on naked floors.

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