We though he might weigh as much as 400 pounds. He made firm footprint in the hard ground. Measuring
the footprints for a distance of more than 60 feet we found the average stride to be 50 inches. We checked this against the stride of a man 6 feet 4 inches tall, with long legs and his stride was 30 inches. We were told by people who saw footprints made when this unknown man was running that they were 10 feet apart. He does his traveling at night. We learned these tracks have been appearing for the past 10 years. -Seattle taxidermist Al Corbett quoted in the Humboldt Times, Oct. 1958.
They say (the source of authority who isn't sure but talking) that the tracks are made by spacing carved feet a certain distance apart on the threads of a tractor, or on a roller used to smooth the road. Is that possible? Individual measurements show some tracks to be sixty inches apart, some fifty-two inches and others 40 inches apart. Here and there, they show on one side and the other, sometimes as a small mound of dirt. Sometimes the tracks step easily up or down rough terrain. It is not necessarily in the path of a roller. In other places the tracks are within inches of the edge of the road in others in varying distances from the oiler rig or trucks. The ground may be that which tractors have run over. Sometimes the surface is perfectly smooth. The weight of the entire foot varies in depth, and according to the surface on which Bigfoot has been walking. It doesn't respond to the "mechanical" explanation. The case of the wooden feet that "they say" are in existence if true they must be magnificent models of workmanship. each toe is separate, tiny lines of the human foot are visible. Then one asks if the toes are hinged to give the startling realism of action observed in the big tracks there are those who answer with a "yes." On Thursday morning the latest evidence debunks a lot of "mechanical" claims. That morning, the big tracks of Bigfoot were observed plunging down the side of a hill in the roughest of shale. The huge dug in (sic), the weight caused the feet to slide. What a way to treat someone's carefully developed mechanical handiwork? There is $1,000 (over $10,000 in today's money) which could go to the fund for the badly needed hospital project of the Community Health Association at Hoopa in the "wooden feet" could be located, proven to be wearable, to produce Bigfoot's tracks. So far, the quest for them has been as fruitless as Coronado's search for the famed "Seven Cities of Cibola."-Betty Allen, Willow Creek correspondent, in the Humboldt Times, Oct. 31, 1958
Crossed the creek and there on the other side were the huge prints going upstream however he seemed to have been just snooping around when the tracks were made up and down banks, in and out of the timber and underbrush, down the creek and back, over huge boulders, logs and piles of debris. They measured 15"x6 1/2"x4 1/2". His print in this hard, damp sand was "to 1" deep where my print beside his was 1/8" deep.-Taxidermist Bob Titmus writing to John Green, Nov. 7, 1958.
Dr. R. Maurice Tripp, geologist and geophysicist, has a cast of a footprint 17 inches long he made in the Bluff Creek area. Dr. Tripp's engineering studies of the soil properties and depth of the foot print of which he made a cast show the weight of the owner of the print to be more than 800 pounds.-San Jose News, 1958 or 1959.