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shed. This has been moved outside and will be laundered, after which it will be evaluated.
The logging operations too, were quite badly affected. Two bridges, 800 feet of railway, and miles of truck roads were seriously damaged. One cold deck was undermined but only a few logs were lost, and logging has already been resumed.
A flood of such proportions was especially destructive in the narrower gorges of the river and its tributaries further to the south. As a result, the highway connecting Scotia with San Francisco was washed out or blocked with slides. It was closed for about a week and even yet, a month later, is open only to restricted traffic. The railway over which the mills ship the bulk of their product, was affected even more, and is still closed.
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were under flood waters and so were covered with silt and must be washed. All of the lumber mentioned above was rough lumber which can be laundered and re-piled, if it was not washed away. In addition to it, there was 1,250,000 ft. BM dry worked stock ranging from rirouldings to edge-glued sheets and siding, which was under four feet of water in our shipping
The flood waters subsided quickly and work started immediately to get back to normal. The water supply for the town and plant is normally pumped from the river to storage tanks in the hills back of town. The pumping plant was flooded and put out of commission, but a crew of men worked in the downpour to divert the flow from springs into the tanks and thereby maintain adequate supplies, although the water had to be boiled for drinking purposes. The mills were to have shut down for the Christmas week, but Mill B'was started on December 27 to provide fuel to heat and light the town and to operate some of the kilns. Six kiln loads of bedding and household effects of refugees from the neighboring communities were dried.
The only loss of life was thirty lambs. Three valuable bulls were saved when they floated out of the barn that was lost and then swam to high ground. 350 head of cattle were evacuated at 3:00 a.ni. from a flooded feeding barn. A hundred tons of hay and large quantities of grain and milled feed were lost.
Three or four hundred refugee families from points south of Scotia were cared for in Scotia. The people organized a Community Relief Organization with headquarters in the old bank building. They supplied food and clothing to the people who had lost their homes and all their possessions. The hotel furnished shelter to the limit of its facilities.
The National Guaril, who had been called to service, headquartered in Scotia for their rescue work in the desolated areas further south. They also set up a guard around our plant during the emergency.
There probably will be no Labor Day picnic next Fall; the baseball team may lack a playing field next Summer; the company will have taken a very considerable beating when the costs and losses are all evaluated; but when the destruction to the properties of our neighbors is considered, when one sees the entire life savings of many families completely erased, and in some cases even lives lost-we can only be grateful that we, by comparison, escaped more lightly, and feel compassionate toward those who fared so badly. And we can be proud of the reaction of our own people toward the misfortune of their neighbors and of the courage manifested on every side.
Don't forget!-Hoo-Hoo Club 2 Christmas Party-Riztiera-Dec. 21
