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About The North Santiam's Mill City enterprise. (Mill City, Or.) 194?-1949 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1949)
MILL CITY K.NTEBPRlöE, MARCO 10, 1949 — t enough to rids in its sling under the axles. It was a mighty clever outfit, and millions upon millions of acres of pine forest were logged with big wheels. Soon slip-tongue wheels for four- horse teams succeeded the old-time stiff-tongues. Steep logging could be hitched astraddle the tongue, which done with the new wheels, for they had its front end carried up in a neck- would let the load slip and drag it ( yoke, as with a wagon tongue, when it would begin to run up on the The rout was aver rough roads horses. Eventually they were pulled that swampers had cleaied to places by tractors. where bunch teamsters had built big Wahoo Logging. wheel loads of logs, each load with You cannot forget, if you ever han a chain hole under it. dled horses < n a big-wheel trail. Loading Up. Down the hill, with a load too close The teamster backed his wheels to a balance. The big wheels running over a load to which the two-wheel up on the horses, hitched out at the loaders directed him, until the axle end of the tongue, with no breeching, was above the chain-hole. Then the no brakes. teamster unloosed the doubletrees and On down tne rough, swamped road, the team was driven out ahead of that twists among stumps, brush and the tongue, to which one end of a blowdowns, Windrows of Swamped long, light chain was secured. „rush along the trail-road. The trick One loader mounted the spring is to zigzag the big wheels from one board tail of the big-wheels, grabbed brush pile to another, slowing the the upright pole, then hauled back wild load of logs down. ward with all his strength on the Swing to the left, now! Haw, Bul pole while driving hiB legs down on let! Back to the right Yo! Hup! Gee, the springboard with all his weight. there, Snorter, gee! This would tilt the tongue upward Tight line, keep a tight line, team as the end of the springboard was ster, and don’t trip your calks on borne backward and down and ram rimrock as that load of logs swing! med into the ground, to prop the now at you and a wheel shatters brush. towering tongue. Tight line pulls panic ou* of horses. When the heavy chain was snaked Let go and it's a runaway. under the load and toggled, then the There she wheels, back to the left team out in front pulled the tongue again, haw her true, gee back, and forwar and down with the light chain. on. The axle would turn forward with Then it’s a straight pitch down the descent of the tongue and the | ahead. Got to run for this one. The loading chain would begin to wind on horses have to outrun the load. Hang it. ing to the lines, you have to keep up, When the tongue was brought to a making 17 feet at a jump, you are level with the top log of the load, the between horses and load, alongside winding would have lifted the load the tongue that could bat your head off your neck in one of its wild sweeps, so that as high-wheel and logs rolled over you they’d bother you never, worry you not at all. You duck the tongue, you keep your feet, you hold a tight line to the end of the run : nd t’'e level land to the landing. Other men have been doing it season after season for many years. You can do it to. You are a pinetop, likewise, by the holy old mackinaw, a hard-line logger, a han dler of horses from away back on the big-wheel trail. Yay, Jack! H’ist, Ned! Wahoo! land. Officiating at the new organiz was saved this time. ation was Mrs. Chase, now deceased, who acted as district deputy presi The Whole Town is dent. A moat discouraging factor in the Talking About early months of the organization, ev en before the charter had been ob tained, was the burning of the hall, including all the lodge furniture. Un til a new hall was built, meitfgs weie held in an apartment home of one of the members who lived above a business concern. After the erec tion of the new lodge hall, it burned the Extra Rich again within a few years, however, the piano and most of the furniture Premium O mtoryhe W oods ~r BIG WHEEL LOGGING The usual set of two wheels was ten feet high, but sometimes a set would tower 12 feet. A heavy chain dangled from the right of a set's single axle, inside the wheel, and a toggle rig from the left. Each hung from over the axle's top when the tongue was down, level for hauling. A thick springboard was ringbolted to the axle, its end jutting out be hind for six feet. A pole like a ipeavy handle stuck straight up from the axle by the springboard. When the teamster went out to the woods from the landing with h i s wheels empty his two horses were Wood’s Store I.ADIEK A ( HII.DHKN'H DRESSES Need Help un Your INCOME TAX? If you l»ud nsoru than one em ployer in 1948, you may be en titles to refund on aortal secur ity tax. Consult— VAL C. W HITE Phone 3408 Notary Public Mill City Lodge History Told I Secretaries of all Rebekah lodges in Oregon have been asked to write up a history af their organizations. The following, written by Bertha II ■ . MAYFLOWER ■ i Miniature chest X-ray films are developed each night and sent to Portland to be read by tubercu losis sp¡ lous specialists. ialisls. T T' j ANNUAL CTÍE3T JI-RAY C'iEST RAY SURVEY is a “ ’ tcroening rcrocning process" by which ur known cases of tuberculosis c e fainted stilly. foir.ted out f.-r f.r further atuly. Wat-ti for the X-ray unit wher. Wat-h communi* y. it comes to your community. x r you a DOOA -OA- AT VOVA STOAT Baltimore, is the story of the local organization. Santiam Rebekah Lodge No. 166 in Mill City was so named for the beau tiful Santiam River that runs through the heart of the city. The lodge was org nized 42 years ago this February with ten charter mem bers—five sister and five brother Re bekahs. Four of these members are stii living: Mrs. Belle Hawkins, Mill City; Mrs. Bertha Nicholson, in Cal ifornia; Mrs. Effie Dawes, Portland, who was elected the first noble grand of the lodge; and Byron Malley, Port- MTwrO NOTICE i 16 Inch Old Growth Carload WOOD Woven Wire Bill Hutchinaun. Lyons, Kt. 1 ♦ Mill City State Bank MUI City, Oregon A Home Bank, Owned and Managed by Home People, Eatabliahad in 1919 39 in. 12 in. Stay 39 in. 6in. Stay Will arrive in March. Place your order now New Low Prices Santiam Farmers Coop STAYTON AM Depositors Insured up to KN0A00 Under the Terms of the Ferlerai Deposit Insurance C'ospemttaki. 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