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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1925
NO. 7
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fcre's j4H fAe Dope About the
Sewn i4e-Men of the Red River
Tho seven axemen of lliu Hod
lllvor, thoy wuro chIIimI. Tiiey fell
timber for Paul Duiiyiin Ijt.fui-a big
Olo Invented thu Dowm-iittcr and
dm two in u n saw.
Tim hclgltUi, reach, uml linl
imwmuremuiit of the Seven axemen
nro not known, - Home clulm Hint
limy woro from hn Hay Cliulour
country, but others clulm that thoy
wero til cousins mid cnnie from
down Mnohlas -way.
At tho rump on tho Ills Union
It took 3t 6 cooks und flukes to
food tho seven axemen. Euih had
two helpers. They would tsko dl-
tance nnd march through Uio forest
swinging their axes, which wero
tied. to long rop,--rapidly about
3 - i -
Iholr heads. Ono helper tood by
with an extra axo, one nxo wis In
uso by each axeman, and the other
helper would hurry to tho river
with the hot nxe.
What bec.iiiio cf tlio .Seven Axe
men after thoy loft 4'iiul's camp
and wont down llm tutu road for
llm last tlmo nobody knows, hut
, they nro remomhorod ns good fel
lows around citnip. In Iho even
ing thoy would gather In Ihe bunk
houso and sing "Shunty lloy" uml
"Uung Your' Kye" 1111 tho folk
down In Ihn sottlumenls on tho
coast would think a northwester
was blowing up.
After Iho Devon Axemen lift,
J'aul made tlio fir it two man uw,
which was 111 a do from n strip cut
from Illg Joe's' dinner horn. H
reached across n iiuurtor section
of land. It woijkod pretty well In
level country, but In railing coun
try It would cut off thu .Ireo top
CAMPBELL-TOWLE CO.
RAISES LIVESTOCK !
i
V, C. Malison Millies Kpcclaciilnr
PIiiiiko III Nloclt Murkvt
on HirnRiio
W'nll Btroot plungers huyo nothing
on W. J. Muttson, manager of tho
Cnmpbnll-Towln Lumber company.
Mnttson recently enlored Into con-'
tract wllb a rancher living In Iho
neighborhood of the Cnmp'lioll
Towle mill to food n lifrgo sow with
Iho slops from Iho rtfolthSiino, nit 1
to divide nny Increase Uml might
onsuo,
Delwln Towlo nnd ICiVw. W. Kaolin
duclnro Unit this venluro ,lnlo iho
livestock business was entirely with
out tholr knowledge, und Unit they
nro withholding their sanction un
til tho results of tho venture cu.v
bo counted. Thoy declare Unit this
Is the first vontnro Unit tho Cuinp-boll-Towlo
bus made In Iho llvo
Hlock business.
HTAOH DAILY N'OWl u ' ;
llnokard's stages uro mnkluK Ihn
J'ellcnn liny cunips ovoiy day now,
dlncp tho Sun Crook hill Is passable!.
In I lie low places, unci In l"'i put
hole It would nit s the trim cn-
tlnly, i touk u pretty good iniin
lo hold down tlio oilier end of Ihl
mw wlii'ii I'jiiI lluiiy.in hint one
end nf II. I 'mil uu-d tu say lu hU
sawing mam "I don't care l you
ride llm , hut tlon'l time your
feel." I
Later two cuuiiiH of llig Olo were '
given tint Job, and thoy suicemled 1 1
well (hut over since the law crew
In lliu I. ado slates have been scan-1
dtnavlnni. ;
It .was after this that Dig Ole,
nude tho downcutter, which cut nj
twuth five bundled feel wide, ami!
sheared n section In less time than I
It takes lo tell If. j
V - al" - M'i7?i
I'.U'I. IllNYAV lU.MSKl.l.'
Cms nnd text courtesy Hcd Ulv
Lumber company, Westwood, C'ul
PELICAN BAY BUYS
, GOVERNMENT TIMBER
Tract Ci ulscil nt U, !IHI,(WO l-Vct In j
I'iu'cIiiitiI in Cniii'i' Nat
ional Finest '
1'ellcan liny Lumber company re
cently purihnsed n tract of timber
cruised at 3,400.000 feet from tho
Crater Ijiko National forest. $'4. 25
per thousuniil was tho bid for Cull
fjrnln White plrno nnd Sugar pine,
uud $.."i0 u thousand for other
spoeles.
This tract lies dlroctly buck of
camp No, 2, nnd will necossltnlo but
n two ni'lo extension of Iho mnln
logging I1'1" leading up from c:iinp
No. 2 lo log this now tract.
TIM'', MI LK'S HOOFS
Cbarllo Strom, I'olloiin tln'y grad
er, declares that, ho used to lllto n
llttlo liquor, but Unit be does not
euro for Iho iLllstlllod essence of
tnillo's hoofs which Is bolng sold In
Iho country today. Strom Is suro
Unit It Is mndo from mule's hoofs.
Olhorwlso how enn Iho lorrlblo kick
be explained;, , .
TIMBER LEAGUE CAMPBELL TOIL PELIGAN SALES
PLANS WILL BE OFFICIALS VISIT MANAGER SPEAKS
LAID WEDNESDAY SPRAGUE PLANT ON PINE MARKET
Mill Representatives Will
Meet at Pelican City for
Final Arrangements
With Iho prospect of u nllvor lov
liiK cup to l") presontiJ to the win
ner by Luinborlogue, representatives
of K linn a til and .Vorthorn Cnllfor
n I a Lumber companies, will meet
Wednesday night ut tho Pelican
Community club to luy definite plans
for tlio formiillon of u timber league.
Secretary Hhcdos of tho club ban
He nt letters tu tin- most Important
lumber companies In thin section.
Inviting them to enter llm league,
and to send their representatives to
the meeting Woilnciulny evening.
Tho meeting of IiihI week wis
merely for III" purpose of laying
temporary pinna, and getting n
larger number of in'lls and iiimiu to
eomo lo the men lug WVtlnerJny
night. At ibis meeting eligibility of
players, finances,1 schedules, ele.,
will be disclosed ur.il settled. Willi
tho thirty edd lumber companies In
Klamath cnunly, most of which op
erate logging camps us well as suw
ni 11 In and factcrlcB, the Klamath
TUr.bi-r league should bo a big
thing.
WILD DRIVE STAGED
TO SPRAGUE PLANT
MntlKon 1-n.vs Out New Course, for
Rond Through tho
Timber
Kor genuine thrills and hulr
rnlslng excitement, (bo nvonigo' wild
west movie is n tnino and hum-lrum
affair ccmpnred to u rldo to tho
t'umpbell-Towlo mill on Spraguo
river with Manager W. C. MntUun,
uncording to nolwln TjwIo nnd Kdw.
". K;ehii, officials of tho company,
who arrived In Klamath Kalis Krl
day evening nnd took tho wild drive
lo Ihomlll Knlnrday.
Towlo took Iho snino rlJo with
Miittson Int full, nnd narrowly es
caped 'With his Ufa by holding his
breath nnd cUnning to thu car with
both hands cad feel. Kioehn adopt
ed Iho same luetics, and except that
both wero black In tho face from
holding their brealh till went well
until thoy rounded n sharp turn In
tho rotij on two wheels nnd saw
Ihut they wero annul to crash lnlo
the rear of n car, tho top halt of
which wiis plainly visible a'hovo Ihe
surface of n mud puddle. Manager
Muttson promptly applied tho
brakes, but discovered tbiil thero
were nono to upply, so ho struck out
along Iho hillside through the tnll
uurut, nnd ricocheted back Into' the
road without any major casualties.
Muttson declares Hint n car followed
the sumo course along Iho hlllsklo
tho year ot tho two winters, but
Towlo and Koehn nro decidedly
skeptical nbmit this story. .
HIGH WIND SCATTERS
BOARDS AROUND YARD
Suiioi'liitcnileiit Cox Forced to Lay
Off Yncil Crew Thiirsduy
llecnusi. of Wind
Yard 'Superintendent A. 15. Cox
was farced to romovo'hls crow from
the Algoma yard T'aursday. Thurs
day's high wind whipped heavy
boards from tho tops of Algoma's
high lumber piles with dangerous
regularity, so Superintendent: Cox
thought It bot to tnko tho men
from Iho ynrd until Iho wind died
down, i
WHEELER-OLDSTEAD
NARROWLY ESCAPE
CARRIAGE SMASHUP,
i
A wreck ill Wheoler-Olm-ilond's
mil was nnrrowly averted last week'
1)7 Iho presence et mind ot Sawyer
Jonn chunipngne when n key slipped
from n pin holding a toed valve on
tho sholigun, leaving the gun wide
open past Mho saw, Champagne
promptly -shot tho lover In tho ro-'
verse direction, nnd succeeded in
balancing Uio vlg until tho ntenm
could ho shut off,
Del win Towle and Ewd. W.
Koehn in Town from
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Delwln Towle and Kdw. V. Koehn,
seciotury and treasurer respectively
of tlio C'nmpboll-Tov.Ie Lumber com
pany arrived In Klamath Kalis Krl
day cveiilujt from the imle sofficcs
In Oahkeih, Wisconsin, to look over
the company's mill and timber hold
ings on Spraguo river. On tho way
out from Oskah they stopped and
Inspected tho 1'rle.t Hlver mill of
tho V. J. Campbell Lumber com
pany, which Is the puTcnl corpora
tion cf tho Campboll-Towlo company.
"Overproduction Is all that Is
wrong with tho lumber market to
day. Thero Is so much California
w'.iite piuo nnd fir being cut, with
muiiy mills running two shifts, ami
new mills starting operating, that
tho market Is distinctly a buyers
market," said Towle.
"Iluslness In the east is goad.
Tho amount of genuine white pine
that can bo cut Is limited, which
prevents overproduction on that
Item. 1 ljok for box lumber to be
shipped cast In considerable quan
tity this year, and expect that It
will hald Its own better than shop
this seasoa."
Towlo and .Koehn expect to leave
fjr the cast Wednesday or Thursday-
:i,
Work Progressing Favorab
ly on Dry Kilns, Scrap
Mill and Planing Mill
Tho sawmill of the Algoma Lum
ber company and tho yard crow wero
laid oft Saturday on account of snow
which rendered it Impossible to
move tho lumber along the tramway
away from the mill.
Tlio first shipment of l:'is from
Algoma camp arrived at the mill
Tuesday. Tuesday's shipment total
led thirty cars.. Since then ship
ments have been running between
thirty and ihirty-fivo car, and will
coutliiiio at that rate during the
season.
Work on in-tailing machinery in
tho new planing mill has com
noticed, und will ho curried for
ward us. rapidly us possible. Kx-,
cavuticn for the dry kilns has been
completed, nnd the luying of brick
will begin In nbout a week.
The foundutlon for the scrap mill
has been completed. It U expected
that tho scrup mill will bo ready
for operation around tho first of
July. The work on tho scrnn mill
a In charge ot Harry Foreman,
construction millwright from Seat-'
tie, Washington.
C.V-TF.U IKISSKH OHIO
"Dutch'' Carper Is bossing the
Ohio since Giu Stc.lry hud his leg
broken. Stedry is doing as well as
can be expected, but It will bo somj
time before ho i3 able to work again.
11HODKS IlKKO
' ( '
I'm n hero yes, I admit
it. Kven It 1 did go riding
with n bunch of chickens, I
saved a hundred lives. Dun
Howard wanted to go with mo
till he found what kind ot
chickens I wi-J Inking for a
"
"lu short, a bunch ot day
old chicks shipped to a rest-
dom. of Pollcnn Hay Wore re- !
; celved nt tlio Klamnth Fulls
post-office lute nt night, I i
volunteered a go to town and
bring them buck, to save tholr
lives, I paid, good cash mnnoy
to get them out ot the office,
nnd then they cried "cheap,
cheap' nil the, way nt me,"
t t f t t t t t t t t I
LOGS RECEIVED
BY ALGOMA MILL
P. A. Albertson Returns
After Regular Trip to
Eastern Cities
Although there lif. been a de
cline of from ten to fifteen per
cent In many lumber Items during
tho past thirty days, bringing the
market about ten percent under
where it was a year ago, there U
no particular cause for alarm among
operators, and no signs of a general
Klump are visible, according to P.
A. Albertson, sales manager for the
Pelican Hay Lumber company, wao
returned last week from Tils regular
yearly trip to Kansas City, Omaha,
St. Louis, Chicago, New York and
other important eastern and middle
western citios.
Immediately after the election of
Coolldge many eastern wholesalers
and . manufacturers began buying
In the expectation of a boom year,
which failed to materialize, and
this surplus accounts for the lack
of increased activity in tho markat
which the opening ot spring build
ing usually brings.
Tho decline of the past thirty
days Mr. AlberUon lays to tho ship
ments from this season's cutting
of Southern Yellow pine, white plno
froai the Great Lakes, and boal
shipments of Canadian lumber.
City trade as a rule Is brisk; but
farm trade, particularly ia Iowa Is
very poor, due to the poor crops of
last season.
The Florida boom', which many
people expected to roach the pro
portions of tho Los Angeles boom,
and Biipply a correspondingly good
market fcr building material will
not approach tho magnitude of tho
California boom, because Florida
ha3 not the agricultural backing to
support the country in the lull be
tween tourist seasons.
"On tho wholo, demand for lumb
er is good; but on tho other hand
production Is immense, uud tho con
dition of tho lumber market for the
coming season will bo a race be
tween them, concerning which jio
ono can make any definite predic
tions. All that mill owners can do
Is to carry a with' the expoctatlon
of the market staying about where
It is," said Mr. Albertson Saturday.
PORTABLE SAWMILL
STARTS OPERATION
Welch und Son Commence Logging
Timber Northwest of
Dairy
Welch and Son ure starting log
ging to supply their portable mill,
ut present located northwest ot
Dairy. They plan to log in the
neighborhood of one hundred thous
and feet before starting tho mill.
The Welch mill cuts four thous
and feet per day, and requires but
four men to operate It.
GOUCHER DOES GOOD
SAWING ON CARRIAGE
l.'ocs Hlght In After I'ppcvs, Ac
enrd'njr lo Bedford's
Instructions
Blacky (lonelier, who sets for
Jean Cliunipagno on the Whccler
Olmstead rig, was taking a turn at
sawing whon Manager J. M. Bed
ford walked through the mill. Bed
ford walked in bolt'nd Blackle.
"Whenever you're sawing, Bluck
ie. never forget to go right In for
uppers." , v
"Yes, you bet I Will.'' .
An hour Inter Bedford happened
to pass through tho mill. Slabs
from eight to ten Inches thick wero
scattered nil over the mill, and
bumping down the live rolls.
Bedford run Ir.to the sawing stall,
"What nr you doing, Dlackie?''
"Why, you toKl me to go right
In for uppers, and I'm not missing
going In.'' '
VSK CI OTHFSI'IXS
(Ills Lund would like to know how
n man can get nlong without but
tons., Jack Nelston advises him to
USB clothespin,
Here's Another Home-Made Yarn
About Our Friend Paul Bunyan
When Paul Bunyon was starting
the white pine business In Cali
fornia, Peter Pifget hooked up a
i team of mules and drove down to
! see him ono morning from Seattle.
Nobody was In sight, so Peter drove
his mules behind the barn and tied
' them up.
Just then Paul came out of the
office, where he had boen helping
Joanny Inksllnger hook bis pen
to a new barrel of ink.
"How's all the family and Babe?"
cried Peter.
"Wife's fine and Babe's feeling
better I Just moved the barn."
"So I see but why move It so
clcsei to a telephone polo?"
"There's no telephone pole near
er than the main line, five hundred
miles rfom here."
"I've been around quito a bit,"
said Peter, "and I know a tele
phone pole when I see It. Why,
my mules are tied to it right now."
"I've known you a good many
years, Peter, and I didn't think
there was enough moon In Califor
nia to make you see things like
that."
They argued for more than half
an hour about it and finally de
cided to go and look at the post
Peter contended was thero. On get
ting there, they could not see the
mulei. ; jPaul slid that Peter Was
drunk,' and had forgotten to drive
the mules over, and had probably
i lied them to a fir tree upon the
sound. ,
"But I'm not drunk and there's
the post I tied them to."
"But ' that isn't a" post- that's a
corn stalk I planted this morning
right after breakfast."
" They looked "up," and dlscsvered
the mules dangling high overhead,
wagon and all. Peter was nearly
LUMBERMEN BICKER
OVER BIG CONTRACT
Gouclicr anil Jackson I'nblu to come
to Terms i)n Invitations
Distribution
' Besides an announcement in an
early issuo of Lumberloguo, Blacky
Gouclicr is planning a social inno
vation for the benefit of the heathen
who arc not familiar with the page3
of the Lumberloguo consisting of
distribution ot invitations to the
housewarmlng at Harem-oa-the-Helgbts
by airplane ia those sections
in the extreme blrtherland ot Klam
ath county where Lumberlogue Is
not read.
Goucher was closeted In secret
conference with Ace Jackson, Lord
Mayor of the Pelican dry kilns, in
an effort to get him to sign a con
tract to deliver the invitations with
his airplane. No definite terms had
been arranged when Lumberloguo
went to press. .
LAMBERT WANTS LADY
COMPANION SUNDAYS
Offers to Secure Competent Clmp
eroue for SnbbntH
Kx'cui-sions
Fred Lambert, of tho Wheeler
Olmstead company, would like to
find a middle aged lady who doe3
net chew tobacco or use profane
lnnguage to go boat riding Sundays
or any evening. Lambert declares
that the old launch isn't much for
'finish, but that she Is sure a speed
demon. Furthermore he ugrees not
to wear calked shoes, and to securo
tho services of Bill Horbelt as
chaperone.
ANNA CREEK MILL
WILL START SOON
Repair Work on Mill Nearly Com
plete; Lumber llmiled
to Chlloqillll
The sawmill of the Anna Creok
Lumber company will start opera
tions some time this week. A re
pair crew has been at work on tiro
mill tor the past month.. Anna
Creek mill has a a circular rig; and
averages between, forty and tlfty
thousand per shift.
Tho lumber from the mill will .be
hauled to Chiloqurh by Art Wlmer.
Wlmer also does the logging tor
Anno, Creek by wmrct,
.frantic, and he1 and Paul solsort
axes and tried to fell the stalk,
but though they were both exper
ienced axemen the stalk grew so ,
fast that they couldn't .get .lw
strokes In the same place.
They sent up Joan, Paul's son,
to untie the mules, but Jean was
soon out at sight. Furthermore,
the stalk grew so fast that Jean
could neither reach the mules nor
slide to the ground. Figuring that
Jean would be hungry, Paul had'
Dig Joe shoot up provisions to
Jean with his shotgun while he fig
ured out a way to get the corn
stalk down.
While Big Joe was" shooting, tho
food to Jean, Paul seized Big Olo's
biggest log chain, hooked one end
of. It around the 'stalk,, and the
other end around the nearest moun
tain. The top of the stalk began
to come toward the .earth in an
arc, and traveled at such speed that
the mules stood straight out abovo
It. Paul got worried, and had all
tho farmers in California haul hay
and pitch it off where the stalk
would light to avoid earthquakes v
and injury to Jean and the mules.
They got the hay down Just in time,
for at the end of the third day tho .
stalk struck the ground. The mules
were not injured, ' except that one
ot them had his neck stretched a
little longer thaa the other ono.
Jean Bunyan, however, was fright
ened out 'of the "better1 part of his
growth. His exploits never 'ap
proached those ot his father.. T.ii)
greatest thing he ever did was to
lift logging trains past one another
on at single track railroad in th
southern states. ' '
Paul took one of tho ears of corn
a2d s'ae!le'd'Tt;'u5ing the kernels In
stead of bricks in casing his camp
well.
EWAUNA TO INSTALL
I CARRIAGE BRACKET
To Jtcnluce Bracket Which Xecces
stinted Half Day .
Shutdown
A cust steel crosshead and brack
et for the carriage was received by
the Ewauna Box company last,
Thursday. The new crosshead .and
bracket will be installed as soon .
as they can be machined up.
Ewauna was forced to shut down
halt a shi-'t because of the carri
age bracket some ten days ago, and
the new bracket was ordered to .bo
installed as soon a 3 possible uud
forestall further trouble.
LAMM COMPANY HAS
A NEW HILKE PILER
Second Lumber Company in , Klam
ath County to Install
The Lamm company, lias a now
Hllke pller, with which it is pos
sible to build lumber piles to any
height desired. The Lamm coin
to Install Hllko Pliers in Klamath
pany is the second lumber concern
county. Algoma Lumber company
has been using three Hllke pliers
for the past two seasons. ' v
SHAW-BERTRAM HOP
IS GREAT SUCCESS
Dunce Held at Logging Camp l.s
Considered (ivrnt
Success . ; . :
According to reports received by
Lumberloguo. the , danca held' re
cently at the Shaw-Bertram camp
was a "skidding" success. ' Tholmu
Holt at the piano, and Frank Works
violinist, started the evening, but
they wero reinforced about ten
o'clock by the arrival of the Illtchlo
brothers from Klamath Falls with
a saxophone, banjo, and slide trom
bone. . !:.
Quite a number ot , people worn
present from other camps, among
whom wero ' Jack Vlllalr, superin
tendent of Ewauna camp, .
DA.V , RKCOYI'.'RH .
' Dan' the blacksmith,' of Pelican
Bay camp two, has -fully- recovered
from his .vacation.":' Dull has beini
wondering what became of his part
ner, but recently received a lettur
j St'Jtlng that partner was O. K,, and
looking forward n next winter, f