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THE
BERLOGUE
VOL. I.
KLAMATH FALLS, ORKOON. WKDNKSDAV, SEPTEMBER 9, 1925
Number 27
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LUM
Rumor Shevlin-Hixon
Is Now Dealing For
Soper-Wheeler Timber
Nearly 30,000 Acres
Jointly by J. r. boper
CI ! LI'
onevun-nixon company inow Uwns
Second Largest Amount of Stand
ing Pine in Klamath County
That the Shevlin-Hixon Lumber company, following
close on the announcement of its purchase of the Gil
christ holdings in the northern part of the county, is
now centering its efforts on ucquiring other timber in
the same district, with the purpose of dominating the
entire northern district, is the rumor in local lumber
circles today.
The Gilchrist purchase involved 65,000 acres of land,
on which arc approximately 1,300,000,000 feet of timber
and a purchase price of about $5,000,000.
Efforts of tlif company are how said to be centering
on the purchase of the Soper-Wheeler tracts an tithe J. P.
Super tracts, with a combined area of nearly 80,000
acres. The Soper-Wheeler tract is owned jointly by J.
P. Super and J, E. Wheeler.
Previously In tin- year. In K1I1111 r
niv. shvfiin liixon IntorosM b!
purchased 4 r. . ' i ol tin
Klsnsik sM Deschutes ttuniiej
from oikhrM. This Irani;! Ion Is
Kulri tu have Involved iluout SOOr
O'lO.OUO feel
Ooiisumatlou 0 IIiIh latest dual
would bring t lie ievllii-lllxn i bold
lug in Klamath oountj nearlj tip
a par wlih JVeyortaaeujcr holding!
here. The Yveycrhneu or holding1
art now the Isrgost in the count;
with the purchase sitsovoeid last j
week. Hlifvlln-lllxoii holdings bo-
mine larger "lun the Lens-Bell h I
tiiKH in this Motion ani Hi- deal on
whli'h the company Is now n-p 1
to bo working win tHi appreelslil'
even in the previous large lot il.
tip to a your Bga the Shorlln
iiiun company was jvtthool reprol
entillon in Klamath bounty;
Its entrance into this Held m
tnarkod by the purchase from lb-
government of the huie Nortt
Marsh I'nii on tin- Klnmuih itemr-
vaOon, i deal Involving ojJproxl -
m il.-! II no 141 li fi-i-t
other deals t"ii iwsd
in
rapid
m ; tin' company ipondinj
liboruliy to soqulrs Hie Umber
desired.
"i
With tho growth ol Its holding
the question regarding the poaslble
location or u mill alts has beekme
ono of tho (real interoii to im
Hurt Ion.
Inasmuch as all ol Its timber la
In the northern pari of Klamath
county or arros:i tin' lino In Dei
chutes county, Ii is regarded a:;
probable In many qua. tors sn.it a
railroad from Bend win bo run In
and all me timber handled iii wet Work the k,hs is m.:lriy Com
mllls of cotspany at Bond. ,,i ( ... Workmen arc now painting
When the mill of the M il ,. I'ine !,,,,, nteror , ,.X,.rior of the bal-
compuiiy bunieii at Aaprovo, 1 1,.,-v. m irk w.n K i being laid on the
Ohlloiifiiln; It wan belleviHl that Hie. " ,,,. ,.s um, wM tarnUA the
Bhsylln-HlSon oennapji wojtid bja
for tho hllc "I'd OOlUtr'tc! a nil"
there.
Mont ilgsirienut, howprer; Is the
previous announ.'enieiil ol thfl I 01
puny thai Klamath Palls Ik i! been
olvoimn oh the site tor ho mill iti
ho built ami that beginning of acttt
oi cjonitruotion jiWaltod bnly t0t!ttn
of tho Interstate aommorca ."'uinils
nlon In allowing tho NoHhoirn Itsjsg
to const ruel I heir road to tills point.
Offieiuis of the company have re
eentkr mated that null! tloflnltc no
tion will be taken ; them until the
matter In sottleil. ,The hearing hi
now set for October nni immedi
ately a decision Is ren lloll II Is
believed company plans Will be de
finitely and finally anhoSnttod.
pqnstr-elio. or this mill would
add greatly in utie Imlnedlatfl RtHytvlh
of Klamath Kails, us liui'l aeinrilinn
to tho usual Bhovllnjilxon s!and
anlH It might be SXPSQtOd I" ein:il,'y
ul least DdO men.
BlltnSRLIi IiK.whs
j. v.. Blrdieil left Bnhtlily tor the
tiamiilioll-'I'owlc Lumber ,iC0ppnny
camp on Hpragun rlvor. lie lias
boon omployed by Ihe Pelican Hay
Lumber compiiny In Ptltoau t'iiy.
Involved; Tract Owned
and .). E. Wheeler;
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Id
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Output of Mill and Camp
Now About Equalized;
Work to Continue
6,000,000 FEET IN POND
Modern Plant, Newly Erect-
ed, Expected to Provide
Steadier Market
, (i .
Although " dotirilte statement tigs
, ),, rade, ii Is retarded as
',,.,. nKl poibfl In iiiIIIIiik circles
1 thg, tbe Aigonm Lumber company
r.,,m, run s lste ns weather con.
diti.n. m permit, or until about
II injur I
tho mill.
working two shitis. is
iiiim cutting around litiii.uuu fool per
day. Tin' camp i producing about
1 7 r . t ti l t. Thore la about 6,00,0,-
r logs in the pond. Th
produotlon of tho cantp was. cut some
llnl ,. , ,.,,, more nearly to
thai oi ilia mill.
One reason tor the bullet that
tin. null will run I n 1 1 Ibis season Is
lh ,,., ,Ul wln, n planer and
Other Improvements in operation, It
will bavo more of a mnrjtol than
in previous years, when only rough
Kumuer wu produced
kilns.
B, .i. crani. bead of the company,
was a visitor horti duriiiK the week,
reviving the rumor that n move was
on fool in ntspose oi mo noiuings oi
the eompany in this section.
Asks U. S. Aid
In Protecting
Timber Areas
Appropriation of $25,
000 Sought by
Forester
HAI.K.M, Ore.. Sept. II. Tho
need of a rottRrpMlonnl npproPa
rial ion of about S-.I.UOO a your
for the pi'olretlou ngnlnSf fire
of limbered government lands In
Oregon was placed before tho
public lauds eommilleo of the
United states senate in I'oit
llltld ye'.terdav by ItJIlit .1. Ciou
iiemlller, ileputy sate foreNter.
t'edenil loud on tvlltvll there Is
Niuniiinu timber in tills slate to
tals ii limit 1175,000 HOres, Not nil
of ii is mcrclinittnblo llmbor,
RUN LATE
SPEC
ill
nm rniniuiTsi
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Squelches Rumor of deal for
Local Mill on Sprague
River Site
MILL IS NOT COMPLETE
Construction halted by Bank
Fail urc; Owns 6,000,000
Feet of Timber
Repeated rumors about
Klamath Falls during the
week that the Saddle Moun
tain Lumber company had
been sold were denied here
'yesterday by Roy U Orem,
lone of the local men in
I charge of the liquidation of
ih,. r.";,..f yt.il. .,nl 9iinm
bank, owners of the nron
erty. Orem admitted that tenta
tive offers had been made
for -""chase of the nroperty
'but denied that anything de
' Unite had been done,
j One man, said to repres
j on people interested in pur
chase of the property, was
jin Klamath Falls Saturday
'making tentative arrange
ments for men to work in
j -e mill, claiming that a pur
chase had already been
: made.
The Saddle Mountain
Lumber company is located
i on Sprague river near fch
Campbell - Towle Lumber
company.
Failure of the First State
and Savings bank caused a
suspension' of work before
'all machinery had been in
stalled in the plant. It has
J .i band mill and other equip
Iment and, it is estimated,
would have had an output of
about 70,000 feet dailv.
The mill site occupies
about 160 acres on Sprague
river, with a fine mill pond.
The company owns a little
more than six million feet of
timber, all of it adjacent to
01'ague river, and so situ
ated that it can all be float
ed down the river to the
mill site.
Lumber Men
To Inspect
Local Mill
; Campbell-Towle Com
pany Executives
Coming ,
w. ,i. Campbell and Velwtn
Towie. president ami secretary re
speetlvely ot the Campbell-Towle
Lumber company will visit tbe
company's Bpreguc river mill dur
ing the last of ibis month, from the
company KnadQiiartars in Oahkosh.l
Wisconsin, according to w. C. Matt
son. mauSgsr of the eonipony. The
(Wo lumbermen will also visit tho
W. ,1. Campbell Lumber eompany's
lumbering operations at Priest Riv
e's, IdahO, while 111 (he west.
Campbell and Towle nro nlso
president and secretary respective
ly of the W. .1. Campbell Lumber
company, one of the largest distri
butors of lumber In I lie Dulled
States, Whlc.ll is the parent eor-
poratlOn or the Campbell-Towle
Lumber eompany. Both men were
here lust winter, when the Sprague
river mill was taken over from
Uduerton and Adiinis.. aAd Tow lo
made snother visit hew last sprint;.
in company with Kdw. w. KoehBi
treasurer of tile eoiiipany.
Mil NO
seio
ESTIMATED PRODUCTION OF LUMBER AND
BOXES IN KLAMATH FALLS, ORE
DISTRICT FOR 1925
Lumber Feet
Christy Lumber Co., Kirkford 3,000,000
Snrague River Lumber ('., Braymill 7,000,000
Cnilociiin Lumber Co., (Jhiloquin 10,000,000
Lamm Lumber Co., Modoc Point 35,000,000
Algoma Lumber Co., Algoma 40,000,000
V.'heeler-Olmstead Lumber Co., Klamath
Falls 20,000,000
Pelican Bay Lbr. Co. Klamath Falls 05,000,000
Klamath Lbr. & Box Co. Klamath Falls . 25,000,000
Kwauna Box Co., Klamath Falls 55,000,000
Pig Lakes Box Co., Klamath Falls 25,000,000
Shaw-Bertram Lbr. Co., Klamath Falls 30,000,000
Kritee Lumber Co., Klamath Falls 2,000,000
Geo. W. McCollum Lumber Co., Keno 4,000,000
Long Pine Lumber Co., Bonanza 3,000,000
Campbell-Towle Lbr. Cq., Sprague 5,000,000
Kills Lumber Co., Bonanza 2,000,000
Shasta View Lumber Co., Klamath Falls ... 7,000,000
Total 344,000,000
Boxes Keet
Algoma Lumber Co., Algoma 15,000,000
Sprague River Lbr. Co. Klamath Falls ... 3,000,000
Pelican Bay Lbr. Co. Klamath Falls 20,000,000
Klamath Lbr. & Box Co. Klamath Falls ...18,000,000
Kwauna Box Co., Klamath Falls 28,000,000
Big Lakes Box Co., Klamath Falls 22,000,000
Shaw-Bertram Lbr. Co. Klamath Falls 10,000,000
Crater Lake Box Co., Bray, Cal 15,000,000
Associated Box Co., Dorris ,Cal 15,000,000
Total Boxes, feet
Invention Of The
Harness Big
Reproduced by special arrange
ment nitii Ksi'ier Shepherd, author
of "Paul Ilunyati.'' Tho complete
book may be secured from the .Me
neil Pre's, Seattle, Wash. Price S2.
In Paul's camps the job of top
1 KKiins was more than an art. The
lop-loader had egulpmeat much dif
ferent than that used today, but
his profallltjrl was about the same.
Kven the l y -'ik sle:ls were lead
ed ten and twelve logs high.
Kven wiM the help of Babe It Is
doubtful if the loads could have
been handled without the aid of the
buckskin harness that was invented
about that time.
This wus invented just before
Paul began his Minnesota lugging
operations,
Kvoryinio knows how 'buckskin
harness stretches when it gets wet
and how It shrinks to almost noth
ing when it s'ls dry and warm in
the sun. This was' the principle util
ized by the 1m kskin harness ami
Ihe discovery is believed to have
ueertj an aooldont, in tFlis manner:
One of the bull-cooks found that
nil of the wood in camp had been
used up and that ho would have
Woman Hurt When
Tree Is Felled
on Tent in Woods
li.KKVI!:. Mrs. Lea Ihni
("iii, wife of Irs Duncan, who Is
entployot) at tho Mintou & Font
swmiu fn Crooked Oreck, ititra
ouloualy oscnpeu tlrnth last
Thursday when loftrrs f-llct a
InrffQ pinr onto thr lent lu
which shc wila sitting. Kvn y
article bf rmuitiiiv in tho tent,
except u chair in wlitch she
was sitting was hrnkeii tu hits,
1es of a hod and a tahle were
driven entirely into the ground
and the chair oil which she was
sitting a moment before was
shattered, Mrs. Dtuienn escap
ed with lacerated sealp and
hi uise.
The tree measured 1i2 Inches
at the top, which washed iwui
the I -nl hidden In a thlcKet
where the new iutlluK rrew fail
ed tu see It.
The logger boekonsd to his fore
inan. ".lake, 1 wish you'd ride into
town anil gel Hi" correct ttuio."
"Hut 1 ain't got no watch, boss."
"A wutrh. a watch." the logger
roared. "Why Ihe hell a watch?
Write It down on a piece of paper,
you fool."
146,000,000
Buckskin
Aid To Paul
v&6.& -.-x.
to go a long ways Into the woods
to got more.
The cook threatened him with !
disaster unless he brought ba:k dry
WOOd and It was a long way to a
patch of it. It was raining pitch -
orks. The ox, the bull cook used.
had a buckskin harness, a new one.
When he finally found a patch of
di'y timber he loadej the sled to
capacity and started back. He found
a good road and went back in a
hurry without looking to see how
his load was. When he got to camp;
he found out that the buckskin bar-j
ness had stretched and that the
load was no where in sight onlv
a thong at buckskin stretched back
Into the woods.
Then the 'dliinerhorn blew and hoi
went in to eat, leaving the ox
standing. While Ik- was eating Ihe
sun came out and w.ien the oull
cook got ha -k he found that the
shrinking buckskin had not only
drawn the load out of the woods
but had pulled it on top of tile
ox and killed Dim.
Paul heard of It and took out a
patent on the idea and after that th
uucKsKin Harness was always used
in his camp tor the long battle.
Woods Worker
Is Crushed By
Rolling Log
Muscles Torn But No
Bones Broken In
Accident
Pete Corone, employe of
the Pelican Bay Lumber Co.
vvas badly hurt Monday
! forenoon at one of the com-
pany camps when he was
-struck by a rolling log.
Though he was severely hurt I turcrs badly, a receni irivestiga
:io bones were broken. His t'os shewed that throughout the Pa,-
! injuries consist of torn mus
jcles and ligaments and are
! said to be serious. He i st
: the Klamath General hospit
al in Klamath Falls.
t Mil. Ill US VISITS .
.Kh ('Millers, of the gypo I'ii'tn of
McMillan and t'hiklers, was in town
from the Korest Lumber company's
logging camp Saturday anil Sunday,
mil .McMillan, the other member of
the firm, spent the week end with
according to t'hililers.
Forest Lumber Company
111 To Be Completed
By Middle of November
Work Rushed by Crew of 75 Men; Framework
Up and Work Begun on Flooring; Suffic
nent Material New on Ground to Insure
No Delays; Company Will Erect Burn
er Across Williamson River
That the mill of the Forest Lumber comoanv at Asp
grove will be ready to begin operations not later than
November 15, was the expressed belief of officers of the
company yesterday, when interviewed at the mill.
Extra men have been -added to the construction crew,
: I he force now numbering 75.
Concrete piers have been placed, work has commenc
ed on the flooring and much of the framework is now in
place .More material arrived yesterday
! '. and there la njw suffliont on tile
IT
ILL
OPERATE LATE
Campbell - Towle Mill on
Sprague River Will run
Until Winter
SHjp 4 -ARS DAILY
Mill is now Cutting 47,000
Feet Daily with 4,000,
000 in Yards
I
! That the Campbell-Towle mill and
cami on sPra8ue river will operate
a5 late thts se3Eon as "eather con-
i unions will permit was the declara
tion Tuesday of W. C. Mattson, local
manager of the company.
The company is now cutting about
17,000 feet daily, and at present
is shipping from three to four cars
per day. There is now about 4.000,
000 feet in the .yards.
ln loSS'ng. the company uses a
floet ot trucks and also Ilas some
logs haulci1 "' "ie Strahorn railroad.
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imim in i
ill.U I IIL.N II
PLAN TO
Local Box Shook Plants
Hard Hit By Inroads Of
Paper Box Manufacturers
That the condition of the
, ; po menaced by the makers
a matter tor national comment in lumber circles is re
: vealed in an article written by C. C. Crow, noted lumber
authority, appearing in the Portland Oregonian.
In reviewing the lumber situation up and down the
; coast Crow says:
In reviewing the lumber situation f
; up and 'tlowu the coast. Crow says:
"The pine mills In the Klamath
! Kails, eastern Oregon und tnlan't)
'empire districts are approaching luo
j clcjse of (their manufacturing season
I with good stocks anil a steadily im
proving market which promises a
j healthy demand for everything wit-,
j the possible exception of box shooks.
A much larger percentage of tht
lumber ordinarily used in tht manu
facture of boxes is being pu- into
structural grades, but tho inroads
whtea paper shipping cases l.iavc
been making Into the 'Wood box bus!
IIHU ! Imvlin,. Ilu. 1 , . v dim nil Tile.
llotfla northwest where the irenerul
prosperity is dependent to a large
extent upon tho lumber Industry,
much of Site merchandise coming
into tibe camps and stores senium
lumbering communities was in pu..v
boxes Manufactured east jf the Mis
sissippi. As a result of this a movenieut is
now. on foot to induce the retailers
1 and who
era distributors of food
stuffs throughout Oregon and Wash
ington to Insist that the mnnUtac
turers from whom they b'ly use
nothing but wooden boxes
l'.t
K-"fi I to warrant, belief that them
will bo no delays on this account.
In order to speed up work ai
much as possible the entire creV
worked labor day.
-N'ews that the company intend:!
to rush work with all possible speed
will be welcomed In the nefgth bor
ing town of Cblftqulin
With completion of tho mill two
shifts will be employed all winter
and this will do much to insuie pros
perity in that section of the couutj
during the coming mouths.
It is now the plan of the com
rany to construct Us burner ucross
WlUUntsun rive.-.
Workmen began yesterday tear
ing down a number of ol.l (rams
structures to make way fjr. tin
burner, oa which construction will
begin a: cnee. It Is move is seen
as an evidence that ' the company
means to take every precaution to
see that there is no recurrence or
the disastrous fire that destroied the
plant when It was the property of
the Mcdoc Pin company.
BET HIS HK.tl ACHJSD
The recent rarty staged ut
Huckleberry Mountain proved that
Ed Pulley's capacity was not as
represented, much to the sorrow
of some of his feihinine adncircrs.
He was so advised und later es
corted to his trundle bed in Nur
sery No. I at Algoma camp.
local box shook industry is
of paper boxes as to make it
ness to the Industry iwhkii is pro
viding the two states wH'i their
greatest payrolls.
The recent ruins have oliininti'd
the danger of serious forest fires
for the balance of this ive'ftr uu.l tUe
logging camps urc getting under way
agnlti.
Production Is up to a high
I but the demand warrants It and 111"
prospects at present are for a goo-I
fall business whin'i should carry
through well into the winter.
Another Good Man
Goes Wrong; Will j
Combat Laundries
II. V. McCee, formerly cutoff man (
for the Klamath Lumber anil mix
Co., has gone from the cutoff game
to tie' wtishoft Industry. In other
words he haii renounced IhS1 lum
ber industry and from now on will
be a salesman for the .Maytag wash
ing machine outfit. He will work un
der the direction of K. P. Ollis of
Klamath Palls, local representative
.-.'of the company.