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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Trees In California
By Edwaed McClelland, Sixth Grade.
My home is in Orleans, California,
and red-wood is one of our largest trees
in the northwestern part of California.
Its diameter is from ten inches to thirty
feet, and its height is from one foot to
two hundred and seventy feet.
The loggers do not cut any tree that is
less than ten feet in diameter. They
pull the logs out of the woods with bull
donkey engines. It pulls one log at a
time and shoots the log down the hill
side down where they can get to them
with wire cables haul it to the railroad
track, and from there they load the logs
on the train and take them to the mills.
Some of the logs are so large that they'll
have to he split the log in the middle.
Each from four hundred to seven hundred
dollars according to size. It takes the
choppers about two days to cut down one
tree, and takes nearly two days to saw
one cut. And the choppers get from
eighty to one hundred and twenty
dollars per month and the sawyers get
from sixty to eighty-five dollars per
month.
And we also have several other kinds
of trees, such as white and red cedar,
sugar pine, white pine, fir, spruce, oak,
madrone alder, cotton wood, black and
white oak, tan bark and live oak and
maple tree.
lied and white cedar are our next
largest trees; they grow to about fifteen
feet' in its diameter. They also cat then,
down to make lumber and shingles out
of them. The sugar pine are also cut
down for lumber and the oak mad
rone, maple alder, cotton wood are cut
down for fuel. The Cedars are cut for
posts The people go out on the hill and
cut down the tan-bark oak trees and
peel off the bark and sell them for twelve
dollars per cord. The bark is used for
tanning sole leather.
y. M. C. A.
The Y. M. C. A. met in its usual place
last Wednesday evening and had an in
teesting meeting. Following is the
program: Opening song, "The Won
drous Cross;" Prayer, Eugene Williams;
Song, "Sometime we'll Understand;"
Roll call, responded by Bible verses;
Song, "Nearer My God to Thee;" Ad
dress, "The Progress of Association;" Al
bert P. Garry; Song, "Yield Not toTemp
tation;" Miscellaneous business; Song,
"Only Remembered;" Closing prayer,
Martin J, Sampson.
Many , of the members made, sugges
tions when the program for business
was called. We decided to-give a "Fel
lowship Luncheon," as one of the inem
bers suggested, to open our new hall.
Fach of us have to. "chip-in"-nickels (5
cents), and still it is to be an interest
ing affair. There will be' all kinds of
games, one of which will he the fcr.ture
of the evening, "Hot hand:" it is a
game that all association men are fond
of. The Quartette will appear again
and show us how well they sang at
Salem last Sunday.
T. W. C. A.
The members of the Y. W. C. A. met
in their usual place of meeting. The
president was in charge of the Sunbeams
so Bessie Chiloquin presided over the
meeting. Opening Prayer, Miss Bow
man; Hymn. Pull for the Shore, Meni
ere; Roll Call. Responded by Members
with Bi'ole verses; Song, There is a land;
Bible Reading, 23rd Psalm; Seasons of
prayer; Sone, God is Love; Talk, Miss
Bowman; Song, While the Days are go
ing By; Watch-word.