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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1925)
.'vMONBAY, MARCH 30, 1925 PAGE FOUR EVENING HEtfSLB, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON VOL. I. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY. MARCH" 80, 1925 No. 4 'ljM ii III . i ' "' ' '"' ' " ' 7zi:zz.--y -L--":-r-J- J -ji-.fcMMWJii.J.i.ii 1 THE L U M 1 E R LO U E I mi- i sip 1:-. 'NEW MACHINE TO I! UTILIZE WASTE !. OF BOX PLANTS jHig Lakes Plant Hits Spllner lu ll - KtJlllfri nnrt It l)nfu lt- nmrknblo Work Inventor is here ;H. P. Shuck Tolls What New Wood 1 Working Apparatus Can 1H I -. v - - for Lumbermen A woodworking machine of vital interest to the box Industry is ihv .Danshuck . Sp.iaer. u dcmonc-traii..-jmodel of which has been u.iod .in Uhe factory of -lie Dig LakCs JJo' company for loiuo timo. The s;i. tiiiner, as It is called, will reducu lUhe number of different "wldth'a o." 'stock which must bo carried, uii'.- Ijixa .waste, and produce a box end superior to tae ordinary one piece rend. . " , Stock of various w.di-u is fed j. into the hopper of the machine, i.'iwhlch groves both ends of the par-'jalteL- pieces, injects hot glue into v,the groves, and inserts a spline or f-cleat in each. The separate pieces ji are held under high pressure while p this is done. . The machine, which i requires two unskilled workmen tc t operate ji, nas a capacity or twenty - composite box ends per minute. 'i H. ' P. . Shuck, Inventor of the ii spllner, and vice-president acd gen i eral manager of the firm of Daniels & Shuck, which controls tae patent l rights to the maaaine. was In town , v' Wednesday and Thursday coafe'r '? ring with. Klamath mlllmen. Ho j left for Saa. Francisco Thursday, J taking with jiiin the. machlna which ' had been -demonstartod to the Big Lakes Box company, it may be sev ) oral months before the Big Lakes . will have a machine of its -own, as J the. spllner is not as yet manurae " ' tured , commercially. Tile demon- Btrator which tho company has bean ' using Is the only machine in ex I istence, and was manufactured for Daniels & Shuck by the S. A. Woods i Machine company. Big Lakes will 4 Receive the first machine to be J manufactured. Shuck declined to make any any atatement as to his plans for the commercial manufacture of Ue ma chine. -The spllner &as been pat ented. In the United States and In twenty 'Six foreign' countries, includ ing Japan. . yL "There are no plans for the ma chine except in my head, and this "demonstrator Is the only machine in existence; so I am not greatly wor ried about anybody etealiag m. patent," said Schuck Taursday. 'j The spllned end L tweu.y i, percent ationger tbuu an ordmao end, acco. ding to tests made at Columbia University, and Shuck de clares that t-:e increase in sire.igih Will bb even greater In California . ylflte pine. With, kiln dried lumber in the east 'the machine opera-ted well ua lng hot animal glue, but with ait dried lumber and the open grain of California ..white pine it win be necessary to use casein glue.. Au Otner change thai is to be luada in the machine is in the method o applying tho glue. It will be ap plied, (a. tho splines Instead of beinjj , injected. Into the g.-ooves when the perfected machine la put on the market. ; ti ; ' ' I -,.;'.! 'V; COOS I1.Y INAClrVE Mills are running but for or five ( days per iweek, and but a fourth of the logging c:mps in and around . Coos Bay are operating, according .to Don Dale, who rclurned to Klaai ttth Falls last week trim tiio Co.j 4. Ba district. Dalo was a ral.way If brake.man for tho Algonu Luaib-.'i !, company In 191S, and lator operal ,)'ed the Mondale theatre with Jack V Monroe of tie M. & H. soI j par ' tors. Slnco his departure Dale has j, been logging train conductor , (o. vthq poos .B; Lumber company; ; ", IN FItOM LA KM Roy Casey was in town Thursday from Nine Bros., Swan Luke camp, where" ho " Is gypolng with Frank "'and Churllo Swindler.',' i HAS HARD WKKK Morris Myers, Mrs. Hazel Begley, and Jake Loach, of the office foico 4.of the.Blg Lakoii Box company have been, down with, the omnipresent Influenza during tho past week. Milling Around ! "I'v taken three of those gal !loa cans of Kaio corn .syrup aud my feet are as sore as over," saya j Peto Chicken. When Dar.7t.iy Kllingaan (jot hor hair bobbed, the barber mu;t havo thrown lu a eriinu .wave for good mcaaure, soys Huichauou Liua. Koitauraut proprieor Hey t-uere. ' d-n't spit on tho floor. . i-uuarjack- -Waal s the uiue. , tioea it leak.' ,! The thin, slick ba red man nev-1 ' er txperieucea the blessed teusa-1 tion enjoyed by the fat baldheaded at alking under Bhade trees with his hat oft, says man when he waika ' ! under a strench. Joe Trcschon. 1 It was the old, old story, sigiied i the pretty wife en the witness stand; a horse and a Ja.-k.-us can never agreo. "Don't you call me a horsci" roared the husband, as be shook off his attorney's restraining hand. A. B. See How did Webster ever compile the dictionary? Q. E. Dee Oil, i.vhcnever li an his wife had a quarrel one word led to another. Logger Let's t'orow a party. Lumberjack Can'ti Cot a case of dyspepsia. Logger S'lright. Bring it along, I drink anything. BIG LAKES WILL GET FIRST LOGS Ten Carloads , n , Day to Bo Ite--cclved by Box Plant From ' Logging Crews -Big Lakes Box company will re ceive its first shipment of log3, this week, having run so far tals season oa the surplus held .!n -the pond from last year. Ten cars a day will bo received from Orjnett and Myers and Lowe Broj., who are logging for Big Lake ' cn the Strahorn, and tire cars a day will be received from 'Chrinie Bros., who are logging tim ber from the Solomon Butte tract. Bob Grinnett has a crcjr at work filling timber oa the Kcsterson tract, but no logs will be loaded for -shipment for some time. LOGS SHIPPED The season's fl.st snlpment of ioga will be rece.ved. by Pelican ay tomorrow, when a train of 30 carj will arrive from the -.anipo aboe Kirkford. The mill h-xs ruu so abort of iogs that it is tuning fir lugs today. HORSES MOVED TO CAMP Pelican Bay shipped cne hundred hed of logging houes from their .anch near Alid.aad lajt Thurodriy .o t..e ca.nps. CREW STILL SMALL As yet there are oaly about ono hundred men In tho logging campj of the Pelican Bay Lumber com pany. It will be April 10 bafore the tamps arc running full lorcc, with a crew of 350 to 375 . men, ac cording to Logging Superintendent J. C. Johnston. KIPLING WAS RlfiHT ' That tho female cf tho epo- ties lsi n,:re deadly tlnn tho male Is heartily vouched for by William Cleiiun-.,. timekeeper for LJmm Lumber company at tholr camp near Ktru. Ole- -mcnl visited Kirk last wjc.:, and had the mlstfortunc to ba seen by Shotgun Nell, no.no- times known as Two gun Katu. This lady seized a largo knife, and ttarted for Clemont iltli- out more ado. Clement, bo- lievlag dlscietiiu to bo the greater part of valor, Incon- tlncntly departed across the Williamson river bridge, and disappeared Into "the tall un- cut, where men are icon, with Shotgun Nell In hot pursuit. Ho hna not returned to Kirk since., , , ' THE KLAMATH Ll'MBF.RLOGUB Established March 9, 1925 A weekly paper for tho men and women employed In tho lumber In dustry of Klamath County. Issued every Monday , HOWARD WIXN'ARD Kdltor i Aj soon as tho g?poca get well llmborcd u;i and gef U making 'or pay, and ail the mli is in the coun try get started, wo would like to get a contest of some kind start ed, either between different sots of gypoes, to see who can shov,th'. largest scale, or betwsen mills cf the same capacity; say. for Instance Algoma and Modoc. Tills is mere ly a suggestion. But we would like to hear some Ideas, and will under take to secure a prize er trophy .vorth working for If such a con tent could be arranged. Mill and camp cperations, hkh started considerably earlier this j season than last, have been somo I what-lrapeded by Friday's s term and I Ihn of.. t h .-..1. V .. r . .V .. if. ..... o .v . j. u. mc cvi ut-.Jii-. I IV, - ever, w'th Algamu gettlrg under way this week. Pelican Bay starting shipment of logs tomorrow, and sev eral of the small outlying mills near ly "ready to commence operations, another week of good weather should see the lumber Industry of Klamath county in full swing. MSK TO FORT KLAMATH The Pelican club lost their, bask et ball game with. Fort Klamath, which 'as pliycd at Fort Klamath Wednerday night. The Pelicanltes wonder w.at about dimmers. TO PLAV AGENCY Tomorrow night the Pelican Bay Community club will play the Ag ency teim in the club hall. x PEERLESS AHEAD In the boys' auto race to Crater Lake being staged by the bo.- 's club at Pelican City, the Peerless team ba: roached the Agency, an I the Cadillac has Ju.'t reached I -doc Point. j ARRIVES FOR SCHOOL Roger Motn-gomery arrived fnii CorvaliU Saturday, -.where hs been attending school. He . ill (leave tomorrow for Modoo cinip "X-iiere he will work the coining season. i , . ; REWARD OFFERED Herman Grlsvo'.d, pavmajtcr f;r the Pelican Bay 'Lumber company, is offering a reward for Info.nial on leading to tho discovery cf a mar. called Alexander, .who clai.ns t) be connected with the state highway commission. Grisvold is fo'd to bo contemplating bringing suit ai;alii.;t Alexander for mental anguish th it the pseudo highway .man cause 1 him OJIiKR LAID t'P Guy P. Shaw, cller at tho Linini mill, Is laid up with a lame La: . Hi3 .co-i.vorker ,say that ha had better get a smnilcr can or elio brvv another i!4ndlo-put on the one he has and a heiper to msiit him in lifting It. ; SHASTA IEV TO START The sawmill , cf the .ihosta Vici. Lumber and Box company will have iti preliminary tryout about April 10, and tho CJinpa.iy piano to tvj gln Rawing lumber April 15, accord ing lo Morion M..i. Tho plant would have started curlier, but the snow and rain cf. Friday slowed up operations considerably. MKKM.VMt t'XH Harry Jilessner, loKgln ; iaperln endent f.r the Bir; L-kia Lot ftompauy wai decidedly im tie g .ml week, visiting ttij campj of tho xaricus contractor. . wlio keep Big Lake supplied with Iozh to in.:, i r.ure that siiipmiiiit would commcnci thij week. ' ( I T FINE L!)(,S 'Big Likes sawmill had an un usually lino run of selected. Lgs last .week, and cut twelve quarter seleits from , tiie.n whorovor possi ble. VOOEL ILL Peto Vogol, deck scaler for Blj Lakos, iwas III several days lust week with tho flu, . , ,, Ole, Paul Bunyan's Punched Holes Big Oio was the Blacksmith lit Paul's headquarters camp on the lils Onion. 01 o bad a cranky de position but he wai a skilled iwork ;nun. No inb in Iron or steel wai 'too big or too difficult for h in. On of tho cooks used to make dougi-nuts mid have Oio punch I.iOa, In thum tin mint., flu ; griddle on which Big Joe cast Ms pancakes and the dinner h.ra hat blow dflwa ten acres of iilnV Oio wis tho only man w!u could shoo Pabe or Benny. livery time ho mule a set of s'uiej for Bubo "ACE" JACKSON AND HIS PLANE CAUSE LAUGHS Some cf ' tho practical Jokerj around PellcnnCJi -are laughiug at Ace Jackson, and .declaring tilat bo didn't buy an airplane, merely a bun.'h.' of bluep'r-intsi,)nut Jock son declares that ho U fully satis fied with the machine, and that b. the time be gets it together ho will net only have learned to opcrato It In the air. lfut be ablo to repair any part of the machine that might break. E. H. Pike, wi:o declare, him self to be an experienced aeronaut ical cog necr, declares that at the present lato of progress Aco Jack son will hflvo hl machine camplvto iy assembled somotimo In tho latter part of 1937. Jackson agrees to thl and lauds his flreiight In ordering a 1927 model instead or a 1925; for now he will have Ills airplane assembled at exactly tbo correct time for the 1927 models. Jackzon declares that It took considerable persu-jslon to got the .Lincoln Air craft company, to furnls.i him w.t an advanced modol, but that he ccor.liiera It worth the ctfort. CAMP1&LL-TOWLE PLANT TO START Tho Bawmill of the Campbnll Towle Lumber company on Spra'gue liver will start operation between tho mlddla and tho latter part of t.ls weak, according to Manager W. Ci Mattson. The company plan ned to start its mill today, but re pairs which had been ordered did not arrive, necessitating a few du-ys delay. Tho mill has been. cam;ilelo'.y ovsrhiuiod, and about a million nnJ a quarter feet of logs are. In the pond. ' 1A dining Hull Is under construc tion .this week. A full logging force -v.il start In the woods at the same .iiiiu t. t the mill commeoccj op eration. . t ' ' SU -i-r, ' FROM (.'A LI FORMA Mck It' gas returned to Klnmah 1'aMi iVediicjday after fliiondliig tho winicr lu Seattle, Portland, ami San Francis:?. Nick drop3 a moan uoaiJ. Ma haj worked formerly for Algoma, Klain-ith Lumber and Box and Swill Lake Lumber, companies. UYI'IN'O FOR LA.M5PH Ed Maniiictte is gypolng for lli-j 15 nnn Luinbor company lit their camp near Kirkford, ' . DRIVE TO MEDFORI) "Hop" Hrookflcld, Miss K. Olsen, at. J , Mr. nnd Mrs. Ernie Chlldnrs motored to Med ford Sunday to tiiko Miss Olson lo her homo tlufre. Brookflold and Mr.' and Mrs. Child era returnod yesterday evening. Blacksmith, in the Doughnuts I'.Ul. lltXYAN IIIMSKLK . r they had to open up another M'n- nesotn iron mlno. (He nnco carried , a pair of tiiese sitoei a. nillo audi sunk knoo deep into sjIUI rock at ' evory step. Babe cait a shoo while: m iking a hard pull ono day, and It was hurled for a mile and t iro down forty acres of pine und.ln-' Jured eight Swedes that were iiwnnip lug out skldwirrs. Olu was also a I mechanic and built the Downcuttar, I a rig llku u. mowing iirachlno that ' cut ' down a swath of trees' five hundred feet wldo. " ' .' , , HHAl X.l I'.IMI' XKWS : . Frank Fallon, known throughout the logging emu nx Jersey, Is re ported to have, gone Into business for himself at tho K'.vauna Logging camp. ' J. W. Ward, who recently feom plu'.ed his winter gypolng. Is bunch ing logs In partnership with Uuy Head. C. A. Mllddlcbushcr, or the Indian service, returned to tho camp after a brier absence, ccnsplcious In. hav ing his cpring hair-cut. Ray Cyr wishes it to bo known that his name Is Bpellel C-y-r and net S-o-a-r-s. , SEATTLE MAN VISITS T. R. Oleson, who operates a com mercial logging company In Scuttle, Washington, arrived from there Thursday with his sister, Mbs M'ld rod Oleson, and his mother, Mrs. Oleson, to mic nd tho remainder ot tho week with his sister, Mrs. Wm. Canoug, and Inti-lentnlly look over the lumbering operations of Klnm ath county. Ho reports a large surplus of logs In thu open market In Pugnt Sound, although he esti mates that but about Half tho camps nro running.' . I)OWX FROM CAMP Jim Johnson nnd Rook McCul- lom wero down from Pelican Buy , camps the rirst of tho week. Tiloy drove from the camp t,i tho 8. P. right of way, lind camo down on tho train from there. Johnson and Mc Cullom engineer and fireman res pectively, declare thut ithey have ptowed every foot of Pelican's log ging railroad freo of swon with No. 28 and nil S. P. snowilow. Thoy returned to camp Tun-'d-iy In Mc Cullom'i car, : . CAT MAX HACK II. A. "Heinle'' Smnllflold, cat mechanic and driver for Pollcan Bay l.n:t season roturnod Inst wook lo his old Job, which ho will have again tills Demon. COVERXMENT MAN AT PELICAN John Holtz, government forostor, in charge of the government itlmbor nolo to tho Pollcan , Bay Lumber company, has arrived from Modfprd to keep ii watchful oyo on Pollcan's logging operations for tho summer. HAS ( H MKiE OF HORSE CAMP I MIIIMcMunus will have charge of Pelican Bay No. 2 tho horse camp, for the. coming season. LliAVKH FOR HISSON Scolt Rose, who has been as sisting In tho overhauling of tho i Canipboll-Towlu mill on Sprugtio Irlveri has loft for. fllsson,', whore hi family Is located, Hot - Air -Dogs A stunn addict walkml Into the lllunil.id lust Week. Cllllgllt It Kllmi' ou ol t no new inurul decoratioiu, utid run out, nurvuu), tromblliiK, u.i it biiiiHlnit bin uyus. uy luu tl.iu l.u caiuo to lli liuxt olock ie found Ihut ho wunu l seeing au tiling i u-il I, so ha vutiired tiio OA I, lu turiiiliivd to hnvu a bite to eat 'jh toru lie iauuI to bud. Hut Lie i ' . .. e ot (lecoruiloiis struck -liii .11 tho eye ugaln. Ho turuod ul.o t, utid iliuiunccd all tralflc lu a r;iice tor the woods. Former Night Oiler Jones, o( tho Kwuiinn nuwmlll, feeling u stoma pipe "This shaft is sure hot murt be nil oil hole hem somewhere--we l, guess there Isn't any, I'll lust pour u little on the ouisldo to kou.) It from getting any hotter. Wn read lust week of tiio acandn loii exploits of certain d'.saoiuio goat) lu San Francisco ufter lhu had partaken ot sonin mashr By this time a Nanuy-g jal's vihrutlnu Temiwrance union must have Iv-uii formed, or at least a society for tho suppression of vice union k Hil ly goats. Speaking of ' societies. lodges, clubs, fiutvrnitles, etc., we had a tip last week that there was a mun In town who did not, never had. and never expected to belong t anything. If ho Is still uituttncUod. we would like to liuve a picture of him. But then, It would bo of no value; for he would belong to Ibii numerically select group who belong to nothing. j Tae Danshuck spllner takes tlir.70 or four scraps ot lu.ubcr and con u. ts iaem Into a nierch mtublo piece ot .ood. Sometimes wo wish somo uou, wou.d Invent a human spllner, "capable of converting tlireo or four ui.sill' spuclidcnts of homo sapnlos .uto one uumuii being. , According to Chief Loucks, some thoughuul mantucturer ot ll'iuor ccn-u his store In tho graveyard .o save ala Irlondi and relatives uie laoor of transporting his re mains utter ho indulged. Perhaps, l-.ougn, he thought that (bu police lorco nilgai be superstitious. Johnny Budoir wits In Scnttlu sovaral years ago, and very badly In need of a Job. llu approached u mun who was driving logs down the rlvor by contract, und asked h.m for n Job, Contractor Are you a ri"i!r-plc? Budoir Am I a rlver-plg7 Say, fclluli, you heard about Christ walk ing on the water aim yuh? Contractor ;Siiro, Budoir Woll, I wns right belli 1 1 him on a log. OCT FOR RECORD Tho gypo team of McMillan and Chllders ot tho . Modoc camp ure out after blood. Tho declare tiuit they iwlll bo getting morn sculu than any other two men In camp by the middle of the slimmer. KSTEEM SHOWN LINHERMAN A purse of (58 was mndo up by tho cmployr.es of tho Lamm Liimhtr company to provide flowers for thu tunoral of A. A. Llndernian, wlio was 'killed In a log Jam a week ago Sunday. EWAl'.VA. STOPS WORK Only ono sot of fullers worked at Ewnunn, camp Saturday, on uccoiinl ot tho snow Friday night, according to Curl Lang, head scaler, who w.i In town over the week-end. WHERE ARE THE COWS? 4 A young irishman, cwho wont to Pollcun. Hay ciuup No. 1 last wook, when nuked by Cninp Boss Jack Sampson' whut lie was going to do, replied tint ha had come up tio milk tiho'cowH. Upon further- quos- Honing it dovolopetl Hint iomo- body had npoofod ithn young Irishman Into' bolleVliiB Hint Pyjllcan liny ran a dairy farm In ,-nddltlon to throo logging camps Hit the- wldls botwoon Crutor and Diamond Lakos, ALGOMA LUMBER COMPANY STARTS UP WORK TODAY l)ny Crow Begins Operation After llio I siml Winter , shutdown MANY IMPROVEMENTS Night Crew to llr Addcil Muiidnr About MHO Men to l Kiiiploycil - ' Tho sawmill ot lb Algoma Lumb er will start operation this morning with ono shift, after tho usual wluU ,r shutdown for repair work and overhauling. A night shift will bu nldd next Monday. A ncrop ail'i, for tho inanufai'luro of lub and cIkIiiks Into lutli and curtulu folds h being ulileil V tbo present equip ment of tho mill. Tint mill crew, yard crow, and construction gaugv will total 30i. A buttory of tno dry kilns will bn In operallou by llio iivlddl ot thu season, und tiio now, modern pliinlug mill, with a capacity of IGOM per eight hour shift will bo completed about thu same lime. Woods Superintendent Crulkshallk has a for'o of ono hundred oml fifty men In tho .woods now, nnd by liie first "ol next week full force ot two hundred and fifty mun will bo ut work. Last year Algoma operated throo i-uierpillur tractors, but did soiuu donkey logging. With Iho addition of two cats and specially construct ed wheels with arched axle nnd criss-crossed spokes no donkeys will be used. LAKE PINE BELT WILL OPEN SOON J. J. Btelger, woll known Klam ath logging operator, returned yes terday from Lukevlew. .wlior ho has been looking over thn lumber pros pects of thut section for several days. Stelger predicts that Lk view, will be the next pine eeclluii lo bo openod up, and declares that ho wns greatly surprised by both the bulk und iiiullty ot take county's l'-nnt forests. ' There has been considerable buy ing ol timber In Lake county by largo eastern holding conipinles. who will hold the timber until ade quate transportation Is avnllublv. Slolger has made no definite plius for the coming season nnd his logging 'ramp nnd equipment, lo cated between Chlloiiuln nnd Ibe Agency, Is ut present Idle, BREAKS LE(1 Ike Loe, logging ronlractor fur the Big Lakes Box company on tho Strahorn line, .sustained a broken leg Thur-iliiy. Lou iwas dragging a bunch of ties with n team, und . struck n bump, causing one ot the ties to tly out und fracturu his leg just above Iho ankle. . (iODOARI) IMPROVES Albert Ooildurd, former night oiler,!!! Eiiwunn mill, who recently underwent a major oporutlon nt llio Bhcklmrn -hospital, ,, Is Improving stoudlly and will bo tibia to Icavu the hospital by the latter part ot tho meek. ' , . ELY IMPROVES Cecil Ely of ilia Big Lakes Box fuctory, wh'o rocontly sustulnod u Horlous fracture nt tho log In a mo tnrcyclo accident, Is doing nicely , now. Tho bono iwas brokon In a very , porullir mnnnor, wns vory difficult lo sot, and slow to knit. 1 SAWYER BACK ON .IOH ' Sawyer Krniiduuburg of it he Big Lakes Sawmill Is hack ym t'ho Job after losing a week's tlma with an Infoctod finger, Itiwas thought that nniptitutlon might bo nacossory, but tho finger Improved eufflclontly to nllow Krnndonburg to snw last weuk. (loorgo Lowls snwod for Big Lukes'1 whllo Krundunhurg 'Was laid up, , . NOW AT AMIOMA W. K, Young, oloctrlclan, wont lo work for tho Algomn Ltimbor Co, on tho 18th, HACK FRO MVISIT Ic fur the Algomn Lumbar Co., has roturnod from n short trip Into tho Roguo Rlvor ynlloy, 1 1 r (Pontlnuod on pogo flvo) 1