The expedients for loading vessels are often novel and ingenious.

For instance, at Mendocino the lumber is loaded on cars at the mill, and drawn by steam up a sharp incline, and by horses off to a point which shelters and affords anchorage for schooners.
This point is, perhaps, one hundred feet above the water-line, and long wire-rope stages are projected from the top, and suspended by heavy derricks.

The car runs to the edge of the cliff; the schooner anchors under the shipping stage one hundred feet below, and the lumber is slid down to her, a man standing at the lower end to check its too rapid descent with a kind of brake.

When a larger vessel is to be loaded, they slide the lumber into a lighter, and the ship is loaded from her.

The redwood is shipped not only to California ports, but also to China and South America; and while I was at.