The Shasta Courier

TIMBER DEVASTATION.-The Carson Register says that the wood-choppers have cleaned the eastern range of the Sierra, from base to summit, from a point northwest of Carson City to a point one mile south of where the King's Canon road crosses the summit, and are extending their operations still further southward, and down the western slope toward Glenbrook, southwest, and toward Delicone Bay, north. At a rough guess there must be cut and corded up within one mile of the line of the Clear Creek flume, 140,000 cords of wood. For miles the side of the mountain, where dense forests of great pines once grew, is treeless as a prairie, and along the right lines of other claims yet untouched the tall timber rises like great walls, as if to oppose the further progress of the wood man.