The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, August 26, 1925, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextTHE LUMBERLOGUE VOL. I. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 20, 1925 Number 25 y Car at Lamm's camp wreck ed After Wild Dash for Two Mlc SPEEDER DEMOLISHED Tank Leaves Track When it Hits Obstruction at Terrific Speed Lives of muny track work men were endangered Fri day noon at Lamm's Camp when a runaway tank car, holding 9000 gallons of wat er, ran wild down a 2-mile stretch of track and ended its career by demolishing two tie cars and a 20-man speeder before leaving the track. The car was standing on the main line at the camp with brakes set. A load of empties backed into it, breaking the brake and starting it on its dash down the grade. Despite the speed which it attained shortly after leaving camp it stayed on the rails at the curves. On a straightaway two miles from camp it ran into the speeder and the two tie ears, completely wrecking them. The shock caused the tank car to leave the rails. Workmen nearby hoard it coming and got in the clear before the crash. It was placed back on the track ancUtowed into camp, where it was found the dam ages were confined to a bent tank, bent ironwork and shattered woodwork. In view of conditions, the dam age is said to be surprising ly small. Boys, How Would You Like to Go to Work Up There? In IlrltlHh Columbia nl the prone-lit tlmo a number f oporiilom have ailoptoil llio "early Shift" during tho flro itIhIm. Mm urn culled nt 2:30 a. m., bays bronkfiiHl sua uro on the Job at 3:30 n. m. Lunch Ih served at 7:00 and n cold ninnl nl rump at 12:00 noon. A bot supper Ih pro vided ni the uHiiiii supper hour. This arrangement Involved nn extra meul tor the snmo charge, but In con- Idorod a good Investment In view of tint hniirds of working during the low humjdty period of the day. Tho men In tho enmps In which the arrangement Ih effective are appar ently well satisfied to, work in tho rool of tho (lay and In nn case him log production suffered. 1 WATER TANK ENDANGERS E OF MANY New Oakland Plant To Furnish Another Output For Klamath White Pine A new market for Klamath White Pine and one that should do a great deal toward stabilizing demand for timber in this section is seen in the recent completion of the plants of the Chicago Lumber company at Oak land, California. These plants will have a yearly estimated output of about 50 million feet, and will find their market both in the bay region and in the east. The Chicago Lumber company was formerly located in the south and was a large-scale operator. Depletion of southern pine forced their move to California, where they would have as a source of supply the pine forests of that state and of the Klamath region. !Ncw Surfacer Installed At Shaw Bertram Older Machine Is Dis I placed; Finish This Week Itintitlhitloji of u new 30-ihcb ilnuh td ItlfOCOr In Ih'Ihk roiiiiilficil ihlH I wt'fU m tin' Bbtw Bertram Lumbar . rninpniiy. Til" inn him In dlsplftCJog Ions "f nlinlliir (( hut with 1 011 Im prof ontoi Too bow mocbtno hoi i luij t-ljfit rin k lifnd mid Ih QlOOiftCAlly I driven. M mtou copooUy In from i?.f to 960 root pr mlnuto, it Ih bollovod (hut lie iH-n mAonloa win bo in opor Allcui by tin pitd f i hi' wooki Planer Foreman to Live Simple Life 0, k. Haiti foreman of Uie Bwaana I pinning mill. In Innkliiic forward to in series -if veitfrisi spent far fr'm the racket of a bowline planer, lie now ha UQder OOQStrUOtlOII a modern house on the highway, about half a mile from Attamoiil Camp ground. Completion l expected within the aexl ituinth. IN SHORT TIME Present Roll of 65 Men to be Raised to Around 100 Mark TO INCREASE OUTPUT Camp to be Run at Late as Weather Will Permit With Larger Crew Announcement that the force nt Lamm's enmp would Hhortty he ln SreaSOd to about lOO men and that the camp would operate . late thin Season oh weather would permit wan made during the week by Claud Houghton, logging auperlntendent of the I.umm I. umber company. The camp III now operating with it hcIh of i'aHern, two catH and three bunching crews. Thin will be Increas ed to Hi sets of fallen, 3 caln nod four bunching crows. The output of the camp Ih now about 100,000 ft. dally. It Is the In tention to Increase this to about ir.0, 000 feet. The mill Is now culling about 120,000 teot dally and has ajiout 2.000,000 feet In the pond. Hunt Perpetrator of Outrage Which Ruined Many Teeth f'hUrley Lnvlgnc, wink nl Pelican Hay camp, has stinted on n mi:m hum for the person 'r persons un known who Inserted ehunks of lead In some of tho pnk that WOS deliv ered to Camp, It ruined an even half-dueii of bin pet knives. He Is Joined In the search by Dublin Una Livingston and others who didn't have many teeth to spare umi who did lose What they Iliad when they clamped down nn Uhe lMd, LAMM'S CAMP TO INCREASE CREW 1,1 "Logging Camps to Run WUm MIINb at mm ill Installation Made by North-1 west Blower Company of Seattle 15 ARE IN OPERATION R. H. Radcliffe to Remain as Operator of New Equipment Operation of Ihe tire new kilns of ihe Kwnniin Lumber i uiiipiiny, In stalled at an approximate cost of triii, ooo began ibis week. Tho kilns were Installed by the NortbWeSI Blower Klin company anil they bring up Ibe kiln installations of tie Kwuuna to IS, ton bavins been previously bull) by tho North west coinpnuy. The first of the new kilns wits charged last week and all WAN) che duled lo be charged and In full op eration by the end of the weok. T. H. Foley, special ropreseata llvu of tho Northwest Illower com pany, superintended Ibe final work an the kilns, which will be In com plete charge of II, II. Itudcliffe. Bert Gillis in Bad Way; Report at Lamm's Camp A report current al Lamm's camp during the week to the effect that Hert (IIIIU, missing top louder, was the victim of a parulytic stroke was Investigated by n committee from the camp- The committee reported on its return to ramp thnt while there may have been some foundation for the report thai bo was parulyed. he certainly wasn't n victim of paraly sis. During his absence Hill Godfrey It officiating. Plan To Move Lamm's Camp About 4 Miles Jump to be Made About Middle of Next Year Lamm's camp will be moved about 4 mlloH northwest of Its present lo cation early next summer, timber near the present location neartng depletion. The move will Involve about five and one-lv.ilf mile of lualn-lino rail road to reach the new timber. This does not take into account the spurs which will be constructed. Two miles of the new main line has already been graded nil It is believed lhat grading of the whole lino will bo completed before win ter. About 17,000 additional ties, will bo necessary for completion of the line. New Planer to Double Output in Ewauna Mill A now Sletson-ftoss pinner, with n 10-knlfo head, ordered for de livery about September Lj will prac tically double the possible output of Ihe planing mill, WOS stated during tho wook by nfflcluls of the com puily. The new planer will ho com pletely motorized nnd w-ill have a rated capacity of about 400 feet per minute nt extreme high speed. NBW OOMPANV KORMBD Charles Tt. Witylund, of Palo Alto, Gkl.i and Donald M. Gregory, Cllf- Cpn It. UortKm, A. He Martini mid Winifred Bbrn, of Ban Famcisco, hnve formed Monterey Hey Hedwod Co., Willi headquarters In Sat) Krlui clsco, to lonl In lumber. Tho Cor poration Is capitalized at $135, 000. I''rom moro than n million acres qf cork troon Portugal annually produces more cork than nil the rest of tho world combined. Late This To Operate i Steady Demand Infuences Local Operators to Keep Lamps Upen; "Conditions Mere Best For Labor Since 1923; Decis ion Affects Thousands of Men in Woods Tributary to Klamath Falls Intention of nearly all operators in the Klamath dis trict is to keep their camps going until late in the season, r.ome until snow hinders operations and others through the winter. This was indicated this week by a majority of the mill men approached on the subject. Thus, thousands of men employed in the industry in Klamath county will be employed for a longer period than for any time past, with the exception of 1923, the record-breaking year of the industry. Of especial interest is the announcement of the Forest Lumber company, purchaser of the Modoc Lumber com pany, that its camp will be operated all winter, if pos sible. The camp employs about 200 men. The company will also provide employment for about 100 men in con structing its mill, an operation expected to consume about 4 or 5 months. After completion of the mill it will begin operations immediately, running two shifts steadily. Jloth tho Shaw-Hertrain and Kwatina eampi. employing a large amount .if men. will be run until about the mlilUlc of Njvomber, offi clala :-f both companies Indicated during the week. Tho Pelican Day Lumber company Is reported to bo anticipating run ning its rump it s late us snow con ditions . III penult, probabK December 15.' about Lamm Lumber company will run until as late as possible and more men will be added to the force shortlw ' Other companies, both large and small, will run later than ordinarily, It is understood, with the exception of some which have their log ponds nearly full. These nre in the minority and JOE DOBEY SMARTEST MAN EVER IN PAUL'S LOGGING CAMPS; WIFE WAS A BEAR Reproduced by spe-iul arrange ment -with Esther Shei .ie:d author of "Paul Banyan," The complete book may beseemed from thCj Mc Neil Press, SeUttlo, Wash. Price . Y One of the smartest men ever in Paul Banyan's camp was Joe Doboy. Joo cumo to 'work and t'oe boys all saw he was green and Johnny lnk sllner, who ihati been left In charge of tho camp one day, thought that he'd havo ;me fun with the lad, so he sent him to town after a crosahuul and told 'him not to come bnJ'k until he found it. Joe headed for town and of course he couldn't find any ciUBShaal. Johnny didn't see him again, but what with such a big camp and all he figured thai he might be tak ing his meals in uny of te IS cookhouses and never gave the mat ter another thought. Justus spring came and the camp WOjj about to break up Joe Uohey s'hm.ved up In camp again with two lawyers. He claimed wages tor all tho tlmo he was hunting the cross haul, living expenses In town nnd lawyer's fees. Paul had t'o pay Cilni. That was the only mistake imyono ever heurd of Johnny Inksllnger making and ho never made another llko it nt least nut mis long as ho worked for Paul. Because little bus been said on Mie subject, most people think Piwil w a bachelor. Hull did have a wife holivover, nnd tho way 3io got her was typical. Passing a waterfall near one o his camps one day ho heard a wo mlfn Screaming. Investigating, he found tho woman ho afterwurdi married standing on the hank and out In Uho river, bonded for the falls, was her sister. Fall; Some All Winter - their dosing w:il n A throw great I numners out of won. De.lsion of the mills to cut late this year is said to be based on a steady and increasing demand. Attn no particular price 'advances worth mentioning. At ihe close of operation this yearit Is estimated tJat the Pelican B"y I-umber company will have led the field with a cut of about 65 mll- i llon foe!- Algoma and Ewauna are in second place, with prospects that each will cut about 45 million. Shaw I Bertram will cut ub mt 30 million. Klamath Lumber and Box about 2S million and Lamm's about the same. j j After going to a picnic we all have 'some Idea of how a stuffed olive ' must feel. Paul wasted no time. He saw that before he could swim t'le rapids ! and reach her the IWOnVen would be ! over the falls, so he took his big Shovel and bes'.in throwing big plies of .dirt in the river. The woman ; who was to be ihis wife got the Idea and joined wltfil him and in a minute the river was dammed up and the woman in the water nvus able to walk ashore on dry land. So light efterwurd Paul married i Carrie, for that was her name. Said he liked her quick wit. Carrie wasn't ns big as Paul, hut was a pretty good mate for him al that. It t-ok 13 Hudson Buy blank ' ets t, muke her a skirt and the ' sails on a full-rigged .-hip to make her a waist. As for shoes she hvOilld just step in an extra-large inoosebido with each foot nnd havo it sewed around her ankle. She wasn't any differ ent loan other women, but Just her measurements were different feet instead of inches, t!H.it is. Paul nnd his wife nearly split up onco when he put her to work Splitting rails for uls fnacaPOUl farm in Wisconsin. Sho said she wanted to help so Paul hired three French Canadians to help her. They agreed to split 900 rails per day, between them but the first day she worked sho split 4750 rtalll dnglehanded. The last roll sho' spill her axe stuck in a rail and sho had to ask one of the Canucks to (nine and help her get it out. He got it out all right- aft;r working for awhile and then noticed that there wasn't any heUd on the nxe only tiho handle. He went to look lor It nnd found It In tho firs; rail sho had split, so she hr.d been working all day with just the bundle. Vet Rail Man u i. w:ii :vvm Give Lecture Sand Creek Convention To be Notable Meet Conductor Hit-l of the mountain illvfarfon of (lie IN Hra ii Itay railroml lm bettt notified U (In Train Din pittrheVfl .vmi iaiion of North ,t mer it a I hal lie lias Im-cm appointed MV (Jefegate to tin wi annual i-oiivch- linn or the Order to be lirlil in Hand 'vvrli. n haj been naked in rend a pUM'r uii the Mibji-ct of "llcavUr trains on heavier grades, Mr. Kiuk it especially well qual ified in handle this subject, having for n long time served as air brake instructor on ihr Slippery Kim div ision f the Vinegar valley railroad in 1'lah. Hi many railroad friend on ihr rellcan I lay railroad are especially enthused over his appointment. T Company Now Has About Two Million Feet of Lumber in Yards BEGAN ON MAY SIXTH Company Fortunatsly locat ed i Timbered Purchased From Government With moro than two million feet of lumber in the yards, plans of the Anna Creek Lumber company above Fort Klamath are to cease operations for the year about Sep tember 1, according to officials of the company. The mill has been cutting about 50,000 feet daily. Cutting was be- gun this year on May 6, at which time all lumber in the yard had been sold. Contract for hauling the lumber cut this season has been let to A. O. Wimer. This mill is In a fortunate posi tion as regards timber supply. Pur chases are made from the forest service. There are several tracts in the vicinity of tho mill, too small to warrant another mill coming in and yet sufficient to supply the needs of the Anna ('reek Lumber company for .many years to come. GENERAL INCREASE PLANNED Representatives of 73 railroads op erating between Chicago and the Pa cific coast and between Canada and Mexico have announced August 14 that they would ask the interstate commerce commission, in session at Chicago during September, for an increase in freight rates of approx imately 5 per cent. ANNA GREEK ILL SHUT DOWN NEAR DP MONTH Pickering To Locate Big Mill In Klamath Falls Is New Lumber Circle Rumor That a double-band mill to be built by the W. A. Pick ering interests of Louisiana will be constructed in Klam ath Falls, rather than near the site of present operations at McDoel, is the rumor now flitting about in local lumber circles. Pickering, one of the largest individual timber opera tors in America, holds in excess of one billion feet of timber, most of it lying below the California line and all of it in position to be served by the extension of either the Northern Lines or the Southern Pacific below the Tule Lake section. It is known that action on his part awaits definite word on the part of railway officials. (Klamath Falls will be chosen rather than McDoel, it is said, because construction of either extension will extend southward from Klamath Falls, not connecting, directly with McDoel. Pickering is rumored to already have approved plans for a double-band mill. It is pointed out that he has apparently so far made little effort to secure a mill site here, as far as is known. RRAY P ANT KllNs ui civ vrinc uiitu I j HA ILHNl Willi Operation Continuous Ex cept for Repairs Made in Winter 65 MEN ARE EMPLOYED Capacity of Plant 20 Million to Ship 18 Million This Year What is believed to he a record for continuous operation In this sec tion Is .thnt of the Crater Lake Box company at Bray, which ha operated without a shut down except for re pairs, ever since 1919, when the property was acquired by its preoeot owners. The mill furnishes employment for about 50 men In tho mill and about 15 in the yards the year round. Equipment consists of 4 cut-offs, 1 scrap machines, 3 twin bands, 1 band rip and other Incidental mach inery. The capacity of the plant Is set at a maximum of 20 million feet yearly and it is estimated that ship ment this year will reach IS millions. Those familiar with Its operation state that this uninterrupted run ha been made possible by the polity of the company which has been to place rigid inspection on all products of the plant. Ewauna Will Jump Camp In Early Summer Announcement Is Made by Company Official Announcement that I lie Kwauua camp would be ahlftcil early next summer to a point about four or five miles east of its present location was made during the week by J. F. Dag gett. Timber near the present ramp has been nearly logged off and by the middle or next yeiir the situation will muke a move Imperative, Daggett said. Pine Beetle Is Damaging Timber Near Deschutes Western pine beetle Infestation in the Metolius district of the Des chutes national forest has resulted in a considerable loss of timber. It wus found by Fred B. Ames, assist ant district forester In charge of timber sales, who returned to Bend from the north end of the forest to day. Ames was accompanied on his trip to the Motollus district by H. L. Plumb, supervisor of the Des chutes forest. I 111 I I 1.1111 I IIUI1U FEW SHUTDOWNS