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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1925)
v f I p ' Ui I 4 . (( ....... 1 TT HI! fl Hi Wednesday, june 3, 1025 THE LUMBERLOGUE fAliHJ ELEVEN iTWO OREGON MILLS NOVEL L on V L ROAD NEW 110 Wooden rails, Home Made . Trucks, and Gasoline Locomotive Used ... Faced wllh n dlHtnncn ami ground condition between woods unci plant (hit Hindu loum logging economic ttlly mi ftmallilu, Uockwullor llrolli erg, l'ueos, Nuw Mexico, operator , ol I lO.UOO-foot sawmill In llio Kantn I'o futloiinl Kurost, Imvo constructed a IiikkIiik railroad with wooden rutin t It it t turn put their op eration ngulu on a pruclcul b:isl. For several yourn tho ownum of tlio Dockwollor sawmill liuiulk-d log from thn woods to Ilia mill In th time-honored way common to mini 1 1 operations, that Is, by team and wagon. Ah Iuiik km tlm cutting arena were close to tlm mill, wugon Impl worked pretty wull, nnil by charging In tho usual cohI or team and wagon haullntr. they wero able to munifnrlum I urn her nt a total coat Hint ttt 111 permitted a mnrKln of profit. Knrly In 1921, however. Doek- . waller Ill-others cut but tho lint of thnlr block Unit wan close to tilt' mill 11 n a found that tho noxt tim ber avnlliibln would , have, ig b buulod nu average of two mllea through a nurruw canyon with boggy ground. Now a logging rail road for a 10.0U0.foot sawmill In not tho usual tlilnic. nl least In Now Mexico. Nevertheless, punt ex periences with teams and wagons Indicated Hint, undur ilia condi tions, li'UIll logging wan out o' .n' question, A track Hint liax a mlulumm grade of IS per vent aud an nvr ami Kruilo of 7 per cent win Hid without grading except on "iirvoi nnd across low pluces. Thn Him err , 4x11 4-foot lawn, inumly, from western yellow pluu or audi titer nntlvo species an ant at bund. Tit? ralla nro Iix4) Inches, iiIho of pine, and carry a lx4-lnclt top plate, which Ik rnpluced an aocllnna wolf out. Two and one-half mllea of track have, noun built tho complete construction cost of. which In IJ5JS. with a mnlnlunnnce coat of I.i3 for 148 duys of actual operation. Thn logging truckti follow the 4 Ronurnl type of railroad Iok enrs ii nd cost 2iiu enclt, Tltoy nro mininfod on eight dump cur wheels oaolt ,14 Inchon In dlnmutot, with throe-Inch face .mid 1 I t Inch flange. Tho bunks am five feel wldo and 10 foot apart. Thn liolgr.t is 23 Indies from top of rull to top of bunk An much ua 1700 foot !ia acalo bai boon hnulnd to s .iuk, but 1000 feet pur truck Ik nearer . tho usual haul, Tho locoinollvo or powo.' unit l.i a Dodgo autoniobllo, cut down liolli In lonRlh and width and equipped with four drlvu wheels Hie i.aino slxo na tho truck whoola. Triinsutls lon gears Imvo boon . changed io oa to Rlvo oqual apeod olllior lor ward or bnckward, which oliml natea tho nocoaalty for turnlnR. Tho coat of the locomotlvo crmpUtej waa $418. Tho powor unit r.nd trurka nro equipped with compound brakna that work on Him whcol facoR llko tba brnkos of o'dli.niv , railroad cara. DurlnK 148 nlno-hour d.iyi alnco tho railroad atartod thoro bai boon put-Into Ilia mill an avarip of B40S foot Iok ncnln,por day over ait nvoraRo, dlalanco of two mllea ut nn avornRo coat of 12.07 per lhm nnd foot. It la anticipated tint, with onrly difficulties worked jut nnd s with avorytlilnR runnliiR miouthly. thn IokkIiir cnata can Da reduced innturlnlly during ltliiO. If ho, it Noenta poaalbla that itnckwollor Hrotliora linvo Vnnclted a solution (if tbo problem of logging siniiU bodloa of tfrnlier Hint nro liincceaalbla to tnnm linttl on account of dlntntice or tinfnvoriible IokkIiik coiidllloiiH. l.OHHKIt i.niti:i) Jack ,lenHon wim very wirloiiHly Injured yoHtnrtlny afternoon nt tho logglug citmp of the Ewiiimit Ilox company Vf)loy Chlloqiiln -when a log rolled on hltn. I'lto cxiut ex tenf jifiTils ,lnJy;'l0H la not known its yet, but tlio phyalclunn In ehnrgo of tho caaj ftfif Inlornhl Injtirlos. He la nt tho Klnmhth Clunernl, hoapltul. l.OSKH FI.NUKIl (Jnrl Itobluy lost tho third finger on bin loft hnnd In it anw nt tbo Ewnunn Hox' tuntory yeaterdny. Hla other flngnra wnro Injurod, hut It wnn only nucennary to .npiputflto the bnn, ' , . liltTC I'HUVICNTION ; Slnco tho limtnllatlon of tho asnrk arrester on thnijnnjmor, rtittch John, flromrtri',;' IV 'krowmg' "b'"1iuio 'fiiat on hla hand, as ho ian't troubled nny mora by sparks singing the scanty fnllngn. "Moln tlnlt, und ran you boat it?" ACQUIRED BY THE SHANNONCOMPANY Kliiiiiiiiin I.iiiiiber company of Aberdeen hu (liken orur two old mi v. mill nltea tit Wullon, Ore,, liulf wny bntwocn Mtipleton und Ku Rene, with pinna for aiurtlnK operu tlona nt once, uccorditiR to un iiouucumiinl of W, M. (ioclireud of Hunker Hill. I'ont office itiiino for Wnllon will bo changed to Hhaiuioii, Willi. Hio urrlviil of thu new Rriiup. Khnnnon I.iitubor company nn pucta to tiporuto two mllla, with a Mr. Ma N ii aa auperlntniidunt, A town of UCO to 300 pornona will be furiund within tho flrnt year, accordliiR to prvaunt plana. Oovltrend, now owner of Dunk. or Hill depurtmont atoro, la pro- pnrltiK to altlp Itla atock to Walton ami will conduct a atoro thoro, He will nlao bo uaaoclutod lu tho mill project. PELICAN CAMPS WriU'a luaurnnre J. K. Alexandor hat roalitncd Ji la ponllion na tlmo keepor at camp one, nnd la now wrltliik Innuruuco at Klttmath Fulln. .New Arrivals AmonR Hid now urrlvnla In comp nro Mrs, K, Owaely nnd fumlly and Mm. W, .Mentltorn und du-URhtnr, Marlon. Ilmia Hperilcr Dale lloovnr la now runnlux tba speeder at Camp 3. . How TlniektK'pcr Hubert Hlcknoy Is our new tlmo- knopor nt camp 1, roplacluc J. K. 'Aluxnndor. I '. At (.'nntp 2 Floyd IMovcr Is back at Camp 2 an blacksmith helper. New Line ' Cuiup Clerk Hukcii Is now hnndl- Iiir brick lea cronm In tho couimls- sury at Cimp 1. To Klamath C. CI. Hoover and family motored to Klamath Kulls Kntiirday evening. Trapping Keui.au hjtrly Tho trnpplni! aonaon nl -I'tsllcan' cam in tins Diionnd nt an . unimunlly aarly date this souitou. Ciiuip Clark Ilunon ruporu the t.iUlnn of fur bcnrlng mtiuna lust week. Ilngon -i eagerly bunllng through , thn fur ciilitlugtios for tho liitc.it quotations on mouso polls. New Kill hen Help Vim Ivorcno Hoover and Mrs. Burr Oiinley nro now with tho kitch en forco at Camp 1. ' COOS BAY STILL ON FIVE DAY SCHEDULE COOS HAY, Juna 3. Humors Hint tho C'oob Hay Lumber com pany mllla la to run on a six-day Mania worn 'denied this rooming by J. H. Jeffrey, general manager. Jef frey explained that the mill run all day Saturday bo that loading or thu Coos liny might bo completed, aa tho ship must ho In Snn Frau claco by Juno 6 for Inspection. THOMI'SOX YAHIW IN ,CAI.II'nXI. flTOCKTON. Cttl., Juno 3. Ao- rordlng 'to well authenticated ro- porU, John Potor Thompson,, .for merly operator of a largo string of retail lumber yards throughout Montana nnd tho upper Mississippi valley, la tanking active prepara tions to cxtund thn ncopo of lu ao HvllOB to tho lower Snn Joaqiiln.val loy, as a nuclona for furthor ex pansion In this alato. IlumorB of overtures mndo to yard owners In Stockton, Lodl nnd Modoato Indicate tho policy will he to purchnso estab lished concerriB rathor than add to tho number of existing ynrds. t A CAT HKINXKH Orant Flandera arrived hero Tues clay to hkln eat, accepting a position recently .vacated. Rose Queenl 1 . Mrs. Itonnld J. Honeyman will reign us "Queen HUzunno I" nt the Port Inntl, Ore,, roo festival next month,' A member of a plpnoor Portland family;, aho will make her triumphal (ntry op the hlstorlo battleahlR Ore. , ,,. trtl.3L'. 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