AUGUST 6, 11)78 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON PAGE 3
Newest Logging Outfit
Alfred Smith Jr. Logging Company
Spilyay Tymoo will attempt
to do a story on each of the
logging outfits on the reserva
tion in seperate issues. Since
Alfred Smith Jr. Logging Com
pany is the newest, we thought
it appropriate to begin with
this one.
Alfred Smith Jr. Logging
Company is the newest of the
several privately owned log
ging outfits on the reservation.
The owner, known as J.R.,
started officially contracting
with W.S.F.P.I. May 1st of this
year.
J.R. is not new to the
logging business, however, as
he has about 12 years exper
ience ranging from working
with crews in the woods; being
a foreman for three years; to
working at the mill for two*
years - first as a log grader,
then as a sales and mill re
presentative.
He currently has 15 em
ployees which includb eight
skidders, two tree fallers, and
one jammer. Presently he has
four log trucks sub-contracted.
J.R.’s logging company is
now working “high country
sale” north of the Camus Prai
rie area. Tentatively, his next
job will be in the Harvey
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Ridge area, and after that,
Beach Comb Springs in the
Metolius Bench area.
According to Hank Palmer,
logging manager at W.S.F.P.I.,
“J.R. has been doing a really
good job and we have good
cooperation with him. He un
derstands ~what the mill wants
since he’s had that experience
here.”
Though he has breakdowns
to contend with (he also does
his own mechanical work), and
puts in long hours each day, Ätc ;
Alfred Smith Jr. seems pleased
to own his own logging com
pany.
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JAMMER, FRED JENKINS, vainly attempts to load this huge
Pine onto the truck as driver, Rodney Smith, looks on. The big
log dwarfs both the truck and Smith. In the end, the Pine had to
Photo by Sandy Rangila
be bucked in two.
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AFTER A SHOUT of warning, tree cutter Steve
Baker steps clear while this large Ponderosa
Pine begins its fall to the ground. Baker is one
of the two tree cutters working for Alfred
Smith Jr. Logging Company.
Photo by Sandy Rangila
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PAUL DRURY is setting chokers on these logs
which will be hauled to the decking site in the
.Camus Prairie area. Driving the cat is Danny
Photo by Sandy Rangila
Craig.
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BOB FOX, who has just felled and limbed this tree marches
across it to go after yet another. Even with their heavy saws, FRED JENKINS, jammer operator, found this
these tree cutters seem always on the move and are hard to keep log too big to load as it was. He is bucking it
Photo by Sandy Rangila in half to front-end it, loading each half
up with.-
seperately. A good jammer like Jenkins makes
loading look easy. The truck driver is Rodney
Photo by Sandy Rangila
Smith. ■