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VOL. I.
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1925
No. r
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 !
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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
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