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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1925)
rr--ViT 1 1 -n" -t t 1 THE VOL. I. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1925 No. r LUM B II V II VI J l "v I l I HII XiiJW 121 - ; ' ' ' . " Lumberjack Jim " Fast One and I first met Paul lliiiiymi down In Ton. Ilu wan milking crois lion (or Ihu Huurtium 1'urlfli". II 3ind nil uo with a eight foot bludc that nm da tin In four strikes. Ouo day ha was making lli and not to going to tost Hint (ino stroku overtook another ami broke tho axo. Dig Ola wm Uk and could not moku him another, j Paul want out on tha pralrlo nnd put up a doubla cut circular mill. At flnt tin did not build a camp In Inn woddi), but curried tho men out an logging trnliiN. Ho aim. hid train to carry their lum;huii out to them. Ono train carried broad, ono spudi, ouo gravy, nnd j on. I got a Job braking on tho gravy train; but tho acond month w bud a wreck which killed firty men and sculdod flvo li u nil rod mon. I mw that wan dangerous Job, no I weut gypolnk lu tho cook-houso rutting coruhraad by the cord; but business got dull and I'.uil rut dawn All Three Locomotives in , uperuiion with Kou Engine Running Pelican Hay Lumber company' logging camps, now running a crew of 300 mon and shipping thlrly-rivo 'car or logs a duy to inn mill, will bo going full fori-o ami shipping forty-flvo earn each dny Uv h mid dle of tho week. Throo camps aro running, cimps ono and two loading; log, while camp 8 It railroad con struttlon ctmp. All thrco locomotives aro' In op eration, number 3, tha- rod engine Is running two shifts, helping f to snitch lu tha woods nnd Hiking tho logs to Kirk. Fred Cass, ongliiaer, "Cockney" Joo Myorscongh, fireman and Don Dale, conductor, bundle tho throe spot switching logs hi the woods during tho dnytlinu. on tha night shift, which moves the logs from tho enmps to Kirk, Hed Johnston is engineer, Hook McCul lom flromitn, :i';l Carl Slutlen Is oonductor. On nuinbor 2. u shsy, Guargc Dunlap, tho compound kid, Is on. glneer, Louis Alex 4s fireman, and Mao Mucdonald conductor. Number 2 la out' working ono shift, switch ing logs In ths woods and spatting empties. Jim Johnston, engineer, A. K. Nel son flromuii, and .Mickey Dolaugh tery, conductor, hnvo chnrgo of No. 2S, also a shiy. Twenty-night Is also switching logi and spotting omptlos In the- woods, nnd works but ona shift. Ctiinp No. 1 run by Jack Sumpson has both the Ohio and n Jiimmcr fading logs riuclrod last full, Tito decked logs are still frozen, and loading them Is slow work. Arthur Myortcough Is hoisting, nnd ,'lliiltly' Jako Cnspuf Is top loading en the Ohio. On the Jammer at ciunp No. 1 Olll.ort Wicks Is holster and Hilly llroen top loader. Camp No. 2, run by lllll MuMunus, Is running ono janimur on Ions cut and bunched this Benson. King drey Is hoisting at this rump, and I'aul Bchultx Is top loading. COYOTE HUNT IS DECLARED FAILURE Last Sunday Hob Kosdor and I'lnky Crowder sinned lo stngo anothor coyoto hun, Kasslar, Hor ry llonroo, Unorguo OUnn, and Vul llargrovo wunt by boat lo Buck ls J:ind, where they awaited" Pinky Crowdor', Algnmn Jim, and sovoral others who want by motor boat to Algomn boforo cutting across tho lake to tho Island. Hut In thn center of tha litko the motor bin I gavo up tho ghost, unit I'lnky, Algn Jim Jim, two or throo other men, nnd tho dogs spent threo solid bourn before tho lompernientiil boat could bo Inilucod to budge. Kosslor nnd Monroo, on tho Islnnd, thouglit that llinro mint ba n pack of coy otes In tho luAnoh from tho howl ting tli"t tlio-hound OUI. PELICAN BAY OUTPUT Slips Over a Wins One "Buck" crow till ho didn't need but n tbouiintd cord u diiy, o ho put a buy on tho Job and puld hint by Dip day. Ho put inn 1 turning lt.it cakes with a allium nigger, I worked for him on litis Job tun years and never missed a duy, but ona duy tho vuivo got aluck on Hi') nigger nnd wo burnt up three cur loads of dough before wo could Rut thu conveyor slopped. Tho cook got sore iiml threw tho rolling pin at niu, iin.l knocked down thrco hund red .fcut of slovo plpu. I'nul wunlcd ma to put In up before tlmo to atari dinner. I told him I would qi II firm; to ho ulj hit would got tha money to pay mo off with from his wife, and for mo lo coma on up to tha house and wait. Wlillo 1 was waiting I hoard I'aul ay "Jim quit." Ills wife nld, "Yo, 1 told you that aim of a gun wouldn't may when you hired Mm. Con! rib ii led by Lumber Juck Jim, I'. O. llox 272. T TO RISE Plans for New Mill atLong- view Announced by. Company Official ord.'lul nnnouncemenl has Junt been niiidu uf (lie Intuntlon of tho Weyorhucui'or Timber company to erect a largo lumber manufacturing milt nt Longvlow, WiiiMi. This In formation w.is contained In a letter written by (loorga 8. Long of Ta coma, general manugor of tlio Woy orhueusor Timber compauy, to R. A. Long, cbiilrmnn of the board of thq Long Hell Lumber company an nouncing that tha farmer company bud decided to purch iso a silo fir big mill at Longvluw. Thu situ selected Is on thu Columbia river on tho 'west side of Columbia Way. According to Mr. Gdorga 8. Loin; tlio construction of the mill will bo pushed abend ' ' a 1 1 h us much cele rity as possible." No announcement has as yet been made ns, to tho situ or character of tho mill conleiiipliilej. Tho Woyor h looser Timber company owns lurgo bodies of timber Irlbutiiry to Ixiiir vlow. Tho letter aeforrcd ta abovo fol lows: . "It. A. Long, Chairman Hoard of Directors Loug-llell Lumber company Longvlew, Washington. "My dear Mr. Umg: 'it Is with n sonHi! of pleasuro that I nm enabled t'j uiinoiinco to you that this cum puny inn decided to ecceit tho In vitation which you lnvo entended to us to ucqtilro a mill slto from your company's property nt Long view, the object of course being to build mltnhla mills-on this location and 13 .-onduct a general lumborlng and logging business. Your own experience In building your present mills at Lougvlow Is Indlcutlvo of tho time and effort that Is required to completo rho tnHk, but It will bo Our plnn and Intent to not dolny In tho commencement Uf this work, unit push It forward with s much colurlty as Is priictlcuble. ' "It Is perhnpa unnccossary to say that wo contslder Longrlew us tho best possible mill site on the Col umbia river, affording as It does tlio m.st economical water tr.mspor tuljn us well as railway' facilities for shipment, Unit uro not excelled by nny locnlloii In either Washing ton or Oregon, "Yours vory truly, "Woyorhnousor Timber Co. "Oooigo S. Long, Oen. Mgr." All TO I'LAMXd MILL rellc:in Buy Is adding n twentv foot strip to the transfer by tho planing mill, nnd 'moving tho in clined track fui'tber out to allow tho ' Insinuation of a tou)porarv trnnsfer trunk, lnsliillullon of new mnchlnory In the l'omodeled pinning mill will coiiimeiico fnino time this week. Jack N'olsbn doclaros that' ho In tiinilH utlng tho temporary transfer truck for n liurdlu fur his garllc Hiuippors when the puimiineul ouo Is Instiillm, WEYERHAEUSER LUmBERLOGUE AFTER IRE Any Time You Have Any News From Woods or Mills' Just Write It In Duilng thu past week several people have madu Inquiries as to whether or not I.umberlogua de sires news mulled Into tha office. Wa aro very glud to get any news bearing upon tiio lumber Industry of Klamath or any part of tho dis trict embraced by the California While and Sugar I'lne Manufac turer's association whether It per tains to mills, camps, employers or employees. At present the only regular cor reopotidcnts of Lumberloguo arc located at I'ellran Hay camps, Mo d3c mill, Kwauua logging camp, and McCullom's mill. We aro desirous of securing more corrospan Jents erpeclully In thu mills and camps tbut uro difficult of access from Klamath Kulls. Wo would bo glad lo near rrum men or women in other ivillill uhn u-iinlil lilt,, ti 1 rlhn I a jto Luinbvrt.igiio. rayment will be Ini ulo and paper and stamped enve lopes are furulnhcd, and tha name of the correspondent is pjuccd upon the cx.hnnge. A i a rule, tho most loglcul per sons tor work of tills nature are timepci'Uers, "en account of their comlr.n In contact with nil tho men. and bccaiiMu ordinarily they have a Nuitlderublu amount of spare time Tho preparation uf a aiible column of ca.np nowi rcqtilios but a few minutes time, However, and any mail lu pcrifoctly eligible Women mako excellent correspondents In the cimpi, and tho work forms a pleasunt breik In tho monotony of cump lite. PARSONS EXPECTS TO GET THRILLS FROM MOTORCYCLE lito has not enougn thrills, says lieu Parson, who twirls a hotly hummer In the blacksmith shop of tho Wheoler-OlniHtead company. Var- sou hits purchased a motorcycle, with which lie hopes to get as many thrills ns Ace Jackson will get with his airplane. "Wheeler-01mtend Is not to bo outdone," says Hap Drookficld. "I'cll.'un may hnvo an Ace, but wo hivo a despatch rider." Odds lire about even on the longevity, of the two men. GOUCHER TO BREAK iWTn cnriAi uuidi "" H,.m.,.on.the.lle.l.,s to. be Scene of HousennrmliiK Very Soon "Mormon" Qroucher, ratchet set tur f ir Whceler-Olmstcnd, has mov- 'c.l into ihls now homo on tho hill, t which ho has christened "Hnrem- on-the-Uelghts." 'Jfonnou" fears ho ' will not bo nblu to lssuo a personal invitation to all his friends for the liouscwarjilns, nnd so takes this op poi-unit to liiio n wholesale Invlta-! lion .to them all. Tho date of this! important social function will boj announced In' an early issue of Lumberloguo. : ' maw GAMP GOSSIP THEY EAT FRESH EGGS AT VOGEL'S HOME THESE DAYS C. V. Vogel, deck scaler for the Illg Lukes sawmill, declares that Mills addition Is a land flowing with milk and lionny, and advises any who have cuuso to complain of the high cost of living to move there Immediately. Vogel recontly moved to Mills ad dition with his family. He noticed a chicken house on the premises, and wished heartily that It might have been a wou.lHh.cd or a work shop, since ho bud no chickens. Iiut chicken belonging to neighbor seem to be fond. of tho Vogcl chlck onhouse. Vogel began to find eggs lu his hen house every day. His little b.i now llstcos for the bens U cackle, and when ono does he dashes madly to the chicken bouse and gets tho egg. I Vogel declares tint he plans to erect twb or three cow stunchlons, and place empty palls at the proper dlstunce from the stanchions. It the suncblcns work as well as the empty chicken bouse he expects 13 build shambles and hang an empty sugar sack iMid aa empty flour sack outside the hjusc each night. HUT FEW IRE Nine More Timber Worker Can Get Lumber Schol arship This Month Slmten' liliiilicr ciirrcopoiidtmce courses were taken Inst week by mill nii.1 camp workers In answer to tho free offer of this course through Tho Lumberloguo. This leaves but nine mora courses open this month, so tboso who want to get la ucder this free offer during April will do well to llt their n nines Immediately. Through arrangement with the Xatlonal Lumber Munufrfctiirers' as sociation, The l.uinhorloguo Is per mitted to otter 2."i free correspond ence courses In lumber each month to those employed by the lumber in dustry In this section of tho state. Tho courso is absolutely free and does not obligate you on any par ticular. Just send your name and address to The Lumberlogue, in care of .The Kvenlng Herald, lind the course will start. ItAltK IMMi Jack Ntlo'.ou Is the proud pos sessor of the only genuine, pedi greed Siberian meat hound in the state of Oregon. Tho hound, acoord- 1 "b i .eistou, is possess u u .very keen sense of smell, but it lai understood that the only things tie COURSES OPEN f0 fa'r , ,)eell ! four cats for that camp. Camp I , , , , -n "... ,T,,aNo. 2 Is a wheel camp, using nearly. , .... " Cll.tIIM(iK F1.7.INCJ Jean Chnmpagno, sawyer for Wheeler-Olmstead, Is becom ing rother fldlgety from the ef fects of toe warm spring weath- er of Inst week. Jean Is glad that thoro is no more ifanger of cars freezing, and that tho Ruekstell Is in excellent shape. TIMBERED AREA NE AR FORT KLAMATH vl, ".".-ikt," , 4. ' t h - 'it T Ewauna BOX Company stalls new Device in it? Plant Utilizes Steam A novel heat saving apparatus lsj being Installed by the Ewauna, Uox : comp?y In its sawmill, which, when ; completed, will allow no waste of , steam save that required to blow i the whistle. Steam which has passed through : the dry .kiln pipes, Instead of being) allowed to escape. Is returned to a ! HEA II APPARATUS S NULL FEATURE condenser In the boiler room, where I , It is cooled by water to the conden-i Babc was ev6a "ehandles wide satlon point The hot I water from between the cyes ac;ordinB lo some the condenser then passes through B "uthorllle.; . others equally depend (hr,. h,ir,i rnn. m . h..i.r We too" forty-two axehandles and which li heated by the exhaust steam frrom the shotgun. Later the ex- huust steam from the nigger and all the steam kickers In the mill will be piped to the same heater. though at present only fro steam from the shotgun Is passed through tho heater Not content to uso the steam twice lie company plans to catch the steam which now escapes through ,, , h k,. ..Ith0 effeciency to a condenser placed In the mill pond to facilitate year round opera tion. There Is considerable vaporized i on carrieu away in me cxnausi irom tho bhotgun, nigger, and kickers, und tho company plans to Install an oil separator, whjch will separate tbe. oil front tho steam.' Wlillo this oil will have lost a great doal of Its vlccosclty, and bo more or less dead, it will do admirably tor use on caalns and on slow moving boar Ings. Ucfore freezing weather sots In, a steam pipe will be, installed lead ing from the boiler room to the high tank which furnishes tho spriuklor system, to prevent freez ing. Kwauua will bo the second mill to have a condenser In' the pond. The Lamm Lumber company In stalled a oondenser lost fall, and was able to operate even during the extremely cold weather of last winter. ' TWO CATERPILLARS ADDED BY PELICAN I'amp One now has Four Caterpillar Tructoi-s; tnii S lias Horses Two now Holt 45 cats were ad ded to tho logging equipment of the 1'elican Bay Lumber company ' ! last week. They will be added to ! .,,, , , v , .,v I .'..... ... ... ; - i one hundred head of horses. According to J. C. Johnston, the addition of these cats will nec essitate enlarging the wthical Pelican Bay dairy farm, and Camp Doss Jack Sampson is making every efforu to locnte the young Irishman who applied for a Job milking rome some time ago. If Lucy, Paul Bua yon's nrllk tow. who was half Jor siv and halt wolt can bo (oiur.l, and me young ir.,..,.,an locaieu. reucun Bay will have ho trouble In keeping the cats s-uppllcd with milk. i MovingMountainslandhinkingm Rivers Dry Was Easy for "Babe" Italic, the big blue ox ponjtltuted j i I'aul IJunyan'a assets ami Ifabll'tles. History disagrees ai to when, where 'and how I'oul first acquired this ' i bovine locomotive but his subse-j imiont raftarrl la rllnh!v hi ih'.ldhp,-! ( In-inabe could pull anything that had two ends to it. 8 PIug of t0o3ccV Like other ols- torical contradictions this comes from using different standards. Seven of Paul's axe bandies were equal to a little more than forty- - l"a OI ' oi.rjr Whcn co" shcet!l were "BUred Ion Babe. Johnny lnkslinkcr found that upkeep and overhead were ex pensive but 'the charges for opera tion and depreciation were low and was very high. How else could Paul have hauled logs to the landing a whole section (S40 acres) at a time? . He also used Babe to pull the kinks out of the croakcd logging roads an'd It was on . .,h . lhis klnd BabIe pulled a chain of three-Inch links out into a straight bar. . The- colll(I j,ccp BaWc m0Te than ono night at a camp for he would eat in one day all the feed one crew could tcte to camp In a year. For a snack between meals he would eat fifty bales of hay, wire OSTENDER COMPANY CUTS BIG TIMBERS Wclland Cun.il Orlcr Totals over One 31illion Boaixl Fei-t KELSO, Wash., Apr. 13. The Ostrander Railway & Timber com- ! pany sawmill has completed ccttins the order for timbers tor the Wei- ! to be the largest single order tor ' Immense timbers ever sawed at one mill. The order comprised 126 timbers, 51 feet in length and rang ing from 36 to 47 Inches in meauae- mpnla Th llmhol-5 flro holmr 1.m.I 1 ftw J?jV I . , f in . - ' ' I" So.mo v (Kuii oAWT 'j-J - -22j for grates for the Welland canal commenced sawing at a.cousMerabln and eacV stick hud to be absolutely earlier date thin they did U. perfect. A representative of the season, and several of them, esptcl Canadian government who placed the "' B1 Lakes and . Pelican Bay, order spent several weeks in British sawed up their log-supply before i Columbia trying to place the order ; . V" B""p l " ' . !l,"'lu ",u,r "'""" ; i timbprs as specified. He was lii- l credulous when the Ostrunder com- pany management offered to cut the entire order, but a visit through the gigantic stand of timber east of Os trander. where he saw a forest of giants 250 feet in height convinced him. The selection of the trees for the special timbers was made with the greatest care and they were log - ged with equal care to avoid injury. Tho mill crew Is specials skilled In handling tho big timbers. The Wetland canal order totaled about 1,000.000 feet and required 32 cars for shipment. SHIFTS CHAXUF. The night nnd day shifts in tho Pelican B:o' mill changed last Sun day evening, when the shift that has been working days sturtod on the night shift. The entire crew changes onco each mlonth at Pollcnit. At most of the mills only the ecwyers and grader change, and all, and six men with picaroons were kept busy picking the wire out of bis teeth. Babe was a great pet and very 'docile at geaaral thing but be seemed to have . a 4nA nf hutnnr and frenuentlv sot Into mischief. He would sneak up behind a drive and drink all the water out of the river, leaving the logs high an'd dry. It was Im possible to build an ox-sling big enough to hoist Babe oft the ground for shoeing, but after they logged off Dakota there 'was room tor BaDe.to lie down for this operation. ,;Oaco In a while Babe would run away, and be gone all day roaming, all over the Northwestern country. His tracks, were so far apart, that it was Impossible to follow him and so deep that a man falling Into, one could Only be hauled out with dif ficulty apd a. long rope.'. Onco a settler and bis wife and baby fell Into ono of these tracts and the: '' got out when he was. fifty, . seven years old and reported the accident. These tracks today form- the thous and lakes In the ."Land of the ky Blue Water."' ; ' . . , . Cuts and text by courtesy of tho Red River Lumber Company, West wood, California , "'.' Pelican Bay and Big Lakes ' Run Short Before New 5 Shipments Start - The operation of seveHl mills' In the vicinity of Klamath Falls have been hampered during the past' two weeks by lack of logs, and by fro'- I en logs. "Ott the Whole, tllB mills regular shipments , began arriving f , d ! . ,K ... Another tilng that . has slowed up production Is that the tint log to nrrivu had been decked all wint er, and were not sufficiently thaw ed out to permit tho manufacture of good lumber. . Shipment of hoi logs was deterred by Inclement weather conditions, and the .mills' were forced to saw frozen -timber. ' Big Lakes has a considerable alir- J plus of logs on hand now, and Inco Pelican Bay camp No. ' J his Begun shipping hot logs, nnd both rlg.i at rellcun have been slowed down to handlo tho frezen timber . nolthor mill will experience any more diffi culty either from lack of logs or frozen logs. ' RIO TKOl'BLF, ' . Ewaunu Box company's .sawmill shut down tile night .hlft at ioooii Monday night on account of trouble with the set works. The trouble was repaired in time fr the day shirt to begin sawing Tues lay morn nj. , j FROZEN LOGS SLOW U II
