PL company acquires about 13,360 acres in the Yage creek area. This is expected to supply logs for about 20 years. They bought the acreage from Dessert Redwood company and the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company transferring lands to PL on Yages Creek and Lawrence Creek. PL company, began operations at Scotia about 1885 after building a railroad to Alton to connect with the Eel River & Eureka Railroad. Over time they cumulatively acquired all the land containing Redwood on the NE side of the Eel from Scotia to near McCann and on the Southwest side of Eel, the greater part from Scotia to Bull Creek. The tract on the NE side has been cut and the remaining forest on the opposite side of the river from Scotia is nearly gone. About 35 years ago PL purchased the large tract on Freshwater Creek which has supplied logs to Scotia for the past 15 years. This tract also is approaching exhaustion. The Yager & Lawrence Creek lands were purchased from Dessert Redwood Company; Hicks - Vaughn Redwood company, Hammond Redwood company and Holmes - Eureka Lumber company. These tracts form a solid body of timber 12 miles N/S by 3 to 7 miles E/W. Most of those lands were acquired from the fed. gov. for $2,150/ac around 1883 in 160 acre pieces as timber claims. Between 1883 - 1887 Governor Russell A. Alger of New York and his associates purchased from various owners of the 160's a total of about 6,000 acres. He sold his interest in those lands until 1902 at which time he sold to Hammond Company. His associates, George P. Sawyer, John H. Cowing and George Wilcox, also eastern investors, sold their interest in 1906 to John C. Hicks and Coleman C. Vaughan of Michigan who incorporated the Hicks - Vaughan Redwood Company. The Dessert Redwood Company is a Wisconsin corp. headed by Howard Dessert. This company purchased the lands it just sold to PL, in 1902, most being small tracks from local owners. Isaac Minor of Arcata and John C. Gamble of Eureka were instrumental in collecting & consolidating these small tracts for the Dessert Company. Belcher Abstract & Title Company handled title work.