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MISCELLANEOUS.
S. P. 547. SURF SCENE ON THE PACIFIC. Price, $9.00.
Approximate Length, 75 feet.
This scene, taken on the Pacific Ocean, shows the angry sea far out toward the horizon, an unbroken expanse of surging billows. The waves come in gradually, flecked with floating foam, throwing a shining spray of marvelous beauty over the rocks.
S. P. 543. HAULING IN A BIG CATCH. Price, $6.00.
Approximate Length, 50 feet.
Here is shown a scene on the Columbia River where they are using horses to drag in the heavy seines filled with salmon. The tide rises and falls and you see the horses along one of the bars up to their girth, splashing in the water, throwing the spray in every direction.
S. P. 544. HAULING IN SEINES AND FULLING Price, $12.00.
SEINES INTO THE BOAT.
Approximate Length, 100 feet.
One of the most interesting scenes on the Columbia River is the hauling in of the seines into the boats, and one never to be forgotten by those who have watched the fishermen pull them in.
S. F. 556. FELLING, ROLLING; BLASTING AND Price, $12.00.
SKIDDING GIANT REDWOOD.
Approximate Length, 100 feet.
California has the largest trees in the world, and the manufacture and shipping of lumber is a very considerable item in their annual volume of trade. We present here a very vivid picture. Choppers are shown in the act of felling a tree which is of immense size. After it is seen falling, it is cut into logs. It is so large that dynamite is used to split it, so that it can be moved.
S. P. 557. CHUTING LOGS. Price, $6.00.
Approximate Length, 50 feet.
Logs are seen here as they are sent from where they are felled to the mill in a chute. They come with great velocity.
S. P. 558. PLUMING LUMBER. Price, $4.20.
Approximate Length, 35 feet.
After the logs are sawed the lumber is flumed often from ten to twenty miles to the nearest railway point
S P. 604. NAVAJO INDIAN SILVERSMITH. Price, $22.80.
Approximate Length, 190 feet.
Two days' travel from civilization our photographers came upon an old but vigorous Navajo brave seated under a tree and making bracelets of silver. For centuries and ages these Indians have done such work with the most primitive of tools. Their forge consists of a little pile of a peculiar clay fashioned so as to hold the coals. A hand bellows made from the body of a young
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