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Vol. xix. Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning, July 21. 1883. No. 96. TREES. 'LOGS AND LUMBER. Timber Cutting in the Great Mills of the Saginaw Valley ' i For sixteen miles down to Bay City, near Lake Huron, the stream flows between wooden strands. The eye strains itself in vain to see beyond the lumber horizon that stretches east and west. The yellow waters, perhaps two hun-! dred feet wide, pass., first between continuous booms, each inclosing j its army of giant logs. These booms reach far above Saginaw, and if we include the tributaries of the river and count both sides, make up a reach of log posts seventy-five .miles long. Next to the logs and on the bank proper rise, most impressive of all, the tracts of sawn lumber. Pile on pile they rise on either side for sixteen miles up and down the stream, covering acre after acre, until the wooden monotony becomes op pressive. Now and then the wooden strand becomes thinner, only to rise again to more impos ing hight and width around a new cluster of mills. These mills, of ten of grand proportions, spring from their lumber heaps as a giant of fairy story looms amid the dis integrated bones of his victims. Their tall chimnevs belch black smoke, the rattling saws cut the air with their distant rasp, and the sense of industrial activeness is filled out by the hives of workmen swarming over the lumber hill and loading them, by slow but steady toil, into barges whose hulls rival the capacity of a C un order. Along this stretch of sixteen miles of the Saginaw river there are cut annually 1,000,000,000 feet of lumber, and last year the figures went 50,000,000 higher than that amount. Since to most readers these figures are a vague immensity of numbers, let us try to simplify them by an illustra tion. A foot of lumber, the unit of board measure, means a board one foot square and one inch thick; so that, for example, a plank two inches thick, one foot wide, and ten feet long would contain twenty lumber feet. Now apply the measure to the figures of the annual Saginaw lumber product as cited above. "We shall find that the Saginaw mills turn out each year so much lumber, large and small, that if it were all cut in inch-thick boards, each of them one foot wide, and then these boards were placed end to end, they would reach about 200,000 miles, or four times around our planet. The-product, to put the illustration a little differently, "would supply lumber enough for a fence four times around the world, made of solid wooden posts and with a double row of boards each six inches wide. More roughly I estimate that the yearly Saginaw lumber product in logs floating closely together would cover a water area of considera bly more than four square miles. Up the Saginaw in a wide re gion, reached either by the river or its tributaries the . great pine saw-log often three feet in diame ter, has its birth. Pine iorestsj now rapidly thinning out, once covered several thousand square miles around the headwaters. En tering that lumber region in the late autumn, the lumbermen es tablish camps, 'round 'which during the whole winter long axes re sound, the tall trunks fall, and in sections are rolled to the adjacent streams for the spring Hoods to bear away. Floating down to the main river, the "boom men" pick out each owner's logs as identified by the brand, and gather them in side the booms, which may be curtly described as long tree trunks chained together at the ends, often inclosing a smooth water surface of several acres. The coves of the Saginaw called locally "bayous," a term borrowed from the Lower Mississippi are especially adapted for the gather ing and organization of these log armies. The military metaphor, indeed, has peculiar fitness here, forHhe logs -are mustered side by side in companies, held together by a rope fastened to each log by a device not unlike the domestic clothespin. A these logs down stream are worked up by the tire less mills, these upper booms are drawn upon for more, until the freezing river finds them quite empty, and another winter comes on to yield its fresh supply. But the saw-log's story becomes most dramatic as it nears the mill and, loosed from the restraining rope is steered into the glad of open water that leads up to the wooden slide. Enter now the great lumber mill, and we shall be at the saw-log's death. Down the side of a wooden railroad runs a heavy truck, fitted with two cross lines of heavy iron teeth. With a plunge it dashes below the water, still holding its place on the rails. Then three giant logs are iloated above it. At a signal, the steam is let on, the machinery reversed, the strong chain holding the truck tightens, and the truck itself begins to ascend. The sharp teeth catch tiie logs, which, in a trice, are lifted dripping from the water, whisked up like twigs 100 feet to the mill, and rolled ofi" opposite the first set of saws. These saws are two in number; one set below is of the buzz variety, perhaps six feet in diameter, and cutting, therefore, through, a three-foot log; but as this semi-diameter is often insullicicnt for a big log, a second and smaller "buzz" placed above and in front of the first, cuts the slice, which otherwise might still hold fast the slab. One of the largest logs weighs a num- o o rs ber of tons, and human strength alone would never suffice to turn it after one of its sides has been "slabbed." Just here comes in a beautiful piece of powerful mechanism.- At the touch of a lever a stout beam armed with iron teeth, rises by ths forest Titan's side. It snatches the wood, and in less time than words can tell it the log is tumbled oyer, and the framework, rushing back and forth "with amazing speed, has driven the edges of the ; tree athwart the saw, until the j once rough stick stands forth a symmetrical square. Then, in an other instant it is shifted before the "gang,' a set of ordinary up right saws set an inch apart, and often with thirty or vcn thirty- j five blades. Below an ordinary j circular planer revolves in front of j the gang and smoothes the lower edges of the boards. The im-J mense piece of timber is run j through in a few minutes, and . what was, five minutes before aj rniiorVi trnfi trunk Inis nassorl intn , the inch boards of commerce. Nor ! does the work end here; for the J diVis irf niQQfvl in m now maoli"nf . SiaDa are passeci to .i new inacmne, t- i . t i . I wnicu grasps mem wmi almost ; linmnn intillirrAiiPf md whifpvnr uuman intelligence, ana w naai or part of them can be made so be come .laths. Other machines take the harder woods, ash, elm or oak and convert them with equal ! speed into staves, barrel heads or ' shingles; and finally the otherwise ; useless debris passes to the fires of the engines. There is seen little or no sawdust around the Saginaw lumber mills for the J reason that it is all used for the furnace flames; and, in general , the cycle of utilities by which one branch of the great industry is made to feed or supplement an other seems as rounded as human ingenuity can make it. Sometimes, particularly in the more modern mills, ,the routine as ,1 :i i i i .i utunueu is vaneu uy innng uie , logs from the river on an endless chain; atul a number of minor mechanisms fill out the devices by which the lumber is cut and dis tributed. One ingenious machine, working- double emery wheels. sharpens the buzz -saws on both sides of the teeth during a single revolution , and requires no attcn-' tion beyond simply unfastening after the work is done. Another flattens out, by a clever mechanic - al Gxnedient. the teeth of the saw, so as to cut a wider rent and pre vent clogging as the cut becomes deeper; finally a system of elevated railroads takes the lumber-laden trucks and distributes the boards -i at the points in the yard or on the wharf whence they are to be shipped. Some additional con ception of the size and importance of the industry may be derived from the fact that the Michigan Central railroad company takes away from one station them 100 car-loads of lumber for each day of the working season, to say nothing o! the large quantities shipped from the river by ihn Flint & Pen Marquette railroad lino, ami even the large shipments bv the lake barges. Disaoosarance of a Lake. lied Fish Lake, above Sawtooth Citv, on the summit of the Saw-' tooth range of mountains, in the Wood River region, Idaho, has dropped through the bottom. The lake hal an area of several miles and was many fathoms in depth. It was on the summit of one ol the peaks of the range, some 11, 000 feet elevation above the sea, and surrounded by heavy timber, which rendered it :i delightful place of resort in summer for camping, fishing and boating par ties. The lake has been there since the white man has known the country, but lately the day of the occurrence is not known the bottom fell out. The country formation is granite and limestone, s and an immense fissure has opened, whether caused by separation or settling of the earth's surface or from volcanic action, is not known. At present the bed of the lake is dry, and presents the appearance of a deep gorge or valley on the summit of the mountains. This lake has always contained millions of red fish, and been a favorite re sort for bear, deer and othergame. ixn r,i. . : i. v, uuiu tut, tu . a niuu.i,they accoinpHshed after tley i a mystery as wnere ine water went. IlaiU-y Tiuus. ri t.r,-.rtuv v Absolutely Pure. 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Croup, Whooping Couph and Bron chitis Immediately relieved by Saitoh's Cure. Sold by W. E. Dement. . t mm. HOTELS AND KESTATTRaOTS. PARKER HOUSE, A. ASSKI.L. Manager. AHToKIA, - - - OREGON. i FIRST CLASS HOTEL. J I. V.ODIilCN IMPROVEMENTS. HOT AXli COI.T BATHS. Good Billiard Table, and First Clas3 Sa- tcon stacked with Fine Liquors. ' cr FI5KE COACH TO THE HOUSE.-S "IT IS A FACT -TIHT .JEFF'S CHOP HOUSE ON Concomly Street is the Best in Town. -THAT j Hr luts Aluajs on Hand lTRESH Shoal Water liny aud East ern Oyster. j THAT !" JEFF" IS THE BOSS CATERER. j TnAT j He hat Iipcii Proprietor or Hie "Aurora S lintel" Iu Knnpiiton KCTen years. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. - DnQPflFQ FIRQT PI AQQ II U O O U L. O I I l O I ULMOO Oyster Saloon, C II KN AMI'S STREET, ASTORIA. mi!E UNDERSIGNED IS PLEASED TO A announce to the public that he has op ened a FIRST CLASS TTouse, Ami furnishes in first-class stylo OYSTEKS, HOT COFFEE .TEA, ETC AT TIIE Ladies' and Gent's Oyster Saloon, CHEN AMI'S STREET. Flease'ctve me a call. KOSCOE DIXON, Proprietor COSMOPOLITAN chop House and Restaurant. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. 3Ieals ."J ccatM ami upwards. Ij. WIIiKKOX A' H. BOULAKD, Proprietor. 3IAI.V STKEET. ASTORIA. PIONEER RESTAURANT AND LODGING HOUSE. Retltted throughout ; tlielTable supplied with the lMt : the beds clean and comfort able. A Firsl rrlnss House. Board by the week, -Meals to order. S5.00 .1. ., ROSS, Proprietor. SEYILLB & CO. Pacific Net and Twine Co. Sax I'KANCisro, April Ilth, 1883. DkarSiks; For st'iieral convenience, we have sent a supply of IVo. 30, 12- ply ieiuiine Scoteli Salmon Net t,.i... iti,ft,..ii-..r 1 r imivunv T me, to the care of A.L JOIlbO kt CO Astoria, which will he sold at low enough lii;itres to make it an object for all net menders to use it for repairs, in plaee of tlip more costlj Xo. 40, 12 Ply. Fishermen who have heretofore used this grade of twine for repairs, claim that the durability of the patch is equal to the balance of the net, after the latter has had a few weeks use. We think It will he money in your pocket to try It For prices and samples apply to A. M. .JOHNSON &CO., Astoria Neville & f!o. Sole Agonts, I. t?.,-! SI ami .ti California St. san 1 rancl3eo- Barbom''s No. 40 I2-Ply SALMON TWINE iiORK M LEAD LINES SEINE TWINES. A Full Stock Now on Hand. HENRY DOYLE ,& CO., 5il ."Uurket Street, Han FrauciHeo. Sole Asents for the Pacific Coast. Hardware ai Slij Clanilery. A. VAN DUSEN & CO., rtE.Yf.ERS IX ' Hardware and Ship Chandlery, Pure Oil, Bright Varnish, Binnacle Oil, Cotton Canvas, Hemp Sail Twine, Cotton Sail Twine; Lard Oil, Wrought Iron Spikes, Galvanized Cut Nails. . Agricultural Implements Sewing Machines, PaLntS anil Oils Groceries, etc WILLIAM HOTOXS -DEALER Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms, Lumber. All kinds of r 1 rr t TTvm on 7-L.- ' 5 glass, Boat Material, Etc. " """'i Boats of all Kinds Made to Order. EOrders from a distance promptly attended S. AENDT &.FERCHEN, ASTORIA. - OREGON. The Pioneer Machine Shop BLACKSMITH SHOP AND Boiler Shop All kinds of ENGINE, CANNERY, AND STEAMBOAT WORK Promptly attended to. A specialty made of repairing CANNERY DIES, FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET. ASTORIA IRON WORKS. Bentox Stkeet, Nkak Parker House, ASTORIA. - OREGON. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. LAP aii MARIE EHG1ES Boiler Work, Steamboat Work and Cannery Work a spe cialty. Of all Descriptions made to Order at Short Notice. A. D. W'ass, Presedent. J. G. Hustler, Secretary, I. V. Case, Treasurer. Joux Fox.Superintendent. A. V. Allen, (SUCCESSOR TO PAGE & ALLEN.) Wholesale and retail dealer- in Glass and Plated Ware, TROPICAL AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Together with Wines, LiqiiorsJobacco.Cigars LOEB & CO., JOBBERS IN WNES. LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. AGENTS FOR TIIE Bsst San Francisco Houses and Eastern Distilleries. Tumblers Decanters, and All Kinds of Saloon Supplies. J3?"A11 soods sold at San Francisco Prices. MAIN STREET, Opposite Parker Housa, Astoria, Oregon, NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. ilia. Will Transact their Business at the MAIN STREET WHARF, Which has-been Leased, Until Further Notice- .E. A. N.0YES, Agent.. Tie a i-t n rTnrrt iX AND Bracket Wpx,k A SPECIALTY. to, and satisfaction guaranteed In allcasea BUSINESS CARDS. . q w. miroar, ATTORNEY AT LA. Ruoms 5 and c. Odd Fellows Balldlay. jg C. HOliDEM, NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AN1) tli SURANCE AGENT. JAY TCTTIiE. 31. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Rooms 1, 2, and 3, Pythlaa Bind ing. Residkxck Over J. E. TneraaV Drug Store. QJELO F. PARKER, SURVEYOR OF Clatsop County, and City ef Asteria Ofdce :-Chenamus street, Y. M. C. A. hall Room No. 8. p I'.IIICXS, PENTIBT, ASTORIA, ----- OREGON Rooms in Allen's buildln? ud stain, corner ofCassaudSqemocqbestret . J Q.A.BOWLBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Chenamu33 treet, - - ASTORIA, OREGON J J. JONES, STAIK BUILDER, Ship and Steamboat Jofisr, JTK. J. E. LaFORCE, DENTIST, Room 11, Odd Fellows Building, Astoria, O. Gas administered tor painless extraction of teeth. GENERAL STEAMSHIP ACEHCY. Bills of Exchange on any Part oi Europe. 1AM AGENT FOR TIE FOLLOWING well known aud commodious stexmiiilp ines, STATE LINE, RED STAR, . WHITE STAR. HAMBURG-AMERICAN, DOMINION LINE, NATIONAL, and AMERICAN LINE. Prepaid tickets toot from any European port. For full Information as to rates of fare, sailing days, etc, apply to I. W.CASS. JBOZOKTH & JOHNS. Real Estate and General Insurant Agents. ASTORIA, - - - Oregon. WE WRITE POLICIES IN THE W.EST em. State Investment, Hamburg, .Bre men and North German Fire Insurance Com panies, and represent the Travellers' Ltfa and Accident of Hartford; and the- "New York Life, of N. Y. We have tho only complete set of township maps in the countyuid nave made arrange ments to receive applications, filings, and final proofs on Homesteads, Preemptloas. Timber Lands, etc., having all the official blanks therefor. Our maps can he exam ined In the ofllce, upon" the payment "o a rragmiahle fee. We also have for sale city property In As toria and additions, and farms and tide land property. Rents, and other collections made, aud loans negotiated. 0 BOZORTH & JOHNS, &RAM CLEARANCE SALE! to make room for more Hardware ail Slip CWlefj A. VAN DUSEN & CO. Will sell at cost their entire stock of HATS AND GAPS! BOOTS AND SHOES. These goods must be disposed of as we axa soou to receive another large lot of Hardware and Ship- Chandlery And must haTe room to store It. THE LATEST STYLES WALL 'PAPER AT B. B. FRANKLIN'S, NEXT DOOR TO ASTORIAN OFFICE. A very large Stock Irora which to select. Window curtains made to order. -My patent Trimmer to cat Wall Ppr will us lound convenient to ray patrons.