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BERLOGUE
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VOL I. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, .WEDNESDAY, 8EPTE MHEK 30, 1925 Number 30
I
BE BUILT S
Announcement follows close
on Purchase of Sivddlc
Mountain Holdings
YATES EQUIPMENT
Construction to Start at once
Building May be Com
plete in 60 Days
Closely following on the
hoels of the announcement
that the Campbell-Towlc
Lumber company had com
pleted negotiations for the
purchase of the Saddle
Mountain holdings, plans
for the immediate construc
tion of a remonufacturin;
plant adjacent to the saw
mill site on Sprague river
have been announced by of
ficials of the company.
Construction is to begin
at once and the plant is ex
pected to be ready for thfl
installation of machinery
within 60 days.
Machinery will be operat
ed by a steam power plant.
Equipment throughout will
be supplied by the P. B.
Yates Machinery company,
and will include a 30-inch
matcher and hisjh-speed
planer, resaw, self-feeding
rip and cut-off saw.
Monroe's False
Teeth Again Play
Him Dirty Trick
Jack Monroe, tiuperintniUnt of
the ShuMn View mill. Iinx ngnln
boon I ho victim of niKfortune, Fully
rocovorod from th Jolt rocalved
whin ho wntt knocked off n high
bonm when In- CMAt in contact with
a hlKh-puwnr wire carrying 4 4ft
VOltH. Jack agaltl Mat Waterloo out
on the milt poml where he WM supei -
vinitiR oparatlnnc. lie iilppod ami
fell in tho pond t wire. The ftrnt
time wiiHii't ho bad, helnK in faet
n Kort of noeetiHlty, hut the MCOnd
time hlH fnmoue falN teeth wore
U)Ht In tho hhufflo and Win tod their
way downwnnlH Into the murky
doptliH of the pond, never more to
bo soon by tho oyon of mortal man.
Jack In havta IUk 01q work on the
plana and RpQOJf I cations fur AO 0-th or
pair and In tho meautlmo Ih taking
nnurlnhuieul through a I raw.
O'Brien Put Out
By Rheumatism
('lift O'Brien, recently a swum per
ni tbs Modoc camp, ims found H
necessary to move to Turner Hut
SiirluiiH in nn offurt 'in eliminate
IiIh ancle ii i ailment, rheumatism,
which hud laid him lower than the
liuttuin of the "I'll Hint Paul Human
dug.
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PLANING ILL 10
ON
Paul Bunyan's One Great
Failure, Committed Here,
Overlooked By Historians
By AL FIDLER, Pelican City
In chronicling the exploits of the famous logger, Paul
Bunyan, the historians generally overlook Paul's one
great failure. The summer before the year of the two
winters, Paul tried to cross the Klamath Lake tides with
the Minnesota bull pines to get straight all clear logs.
This experiment was a failure, the resulting cross being
bull rushes, for proof of which see any Minnesota lake or
note the spots on the shores of Klamath Lake where
Paul pulled up the tules. Owing to the wet Spring after
the year of the two winters, a great many of the knots
Paui had remove tll'rom the bull pine got floated into the
Big and Little Onion rivers, and lodged on the feet of
'.he river hogs sacking the rear of the drive. Ever since
hat time tho knots have been known as "Bunions."
REPAIRS ON
ROAD AID TO
MILL CRFWS
Work O. K.; Means
Much To Lumber
Workers
Nn iitiunuiiceinent lu rceeiH
(ponlbs, unlsss the one muting iimi
the Porosl Lumber obntpsby would
reaoustruet tbe burned Modoc Mill,
turn occasioned ho much Joy to mill
workers tii northern Klsmstb coun
ty uj i hut Issued yeeterdsy by the
Khun mil county court that the
mini bttWtlon OhllOQUln unit Asp
grove wag to bo graded.
Although the distance Ik only
Sboul ii mile mid ii half, tiif strttch
bstwooQ ('iiiiiMjinii nut! agpgroyo,
on low ground, ii virtually Impasgg
ble fn wat wsatbar,
This Strgtgh Ih used by praOtlfigl-
ly srtry woodsman coming down to
Klamath Fulls from the Kirk una
iud glso by Ilrnymlll icHidf-nta who
oopm to Chdogoln by way nf Ifgva.
IUIIkt llinn force their employee
so uhi- tin road, officials of tin.
rorest Lumber comiinny had ge
elded tn build n rommlassry at tin
mill ihai would supply ail nawds of
the camp, chipping In all needed
materials iy rail.
Decision of ihe county court to
repair III" mad menus thai a great
itmuunt nt trade will lie saved to
Cblloquln ami lu Klamath Fails,
Wisconsin Man
Buys Interest
In Local Firm
Eastern Lumberman Is
Due Here In
Two Weeks
A substantial interest in
he Sixth Street Lumber Co.
here has been acquired by
R. P. Ellingson of Hawkins,
Wisconsin, who, during the
week purchased the stock
and plant of the Klamath
Lumber and Mill Work Co.
The Sixth Street Lumber
company and the Klamath
Lumber and Mill work com
pany are housed in the same
building. The Sixth Street
Lumber company does re
manufacturintr anil main
tains a wholesale and retail
yard.
A. H. McCollum is pre
sident. Others active in
management of the firm are
U n. Glen denning, A. G.
Pearson and E. M. Pearson,
the latter being secretary of
the company.
An announcement outlin
ing future plans of the com
pany is expected soon, and
it is believed that a Drosrram
of expansion will be outlin
ed.
Ml ill
WHO REQUEST II
Condition Here is Best in
Years, Statement of Em
ployment Manager
MUCH WORK IN CAMPS
Klamath Falls Building Act
ivity Furnishes Labor
for Many Men
There in work in Kitimtitii county
for nil lOCSl HMD who want II, ac
cording to ignts ityan. local em
ployment agency msusgsr.
"The situation Ih the host la
yearn." lie said.
viiii iii.r- i iu.ti.inr. wimation- sicck ana pianr. io i. r. ciungson or nawKins, wiscon
ai in tin- situation; Ho- itoel n inaiim i3in,, effective November 14, was announced here today
(i,.u any woodsman in "'I' flUtrici
IIC'iMI noi in- (Mil oi Niirr. Li' iimi-;
Uli'.
If .....n. (.. atM AMI nf I I,
iroods for awiiii. . ih.-r- is ork 1 1 eiitle'son, owners of the company, had completed nego
rinin bare in Klamath khs for tiatiOM for a large factory site in Stockton, California,
ill, in. Muny men nr' wunliil on
local building sad rdad work and
there is some work in local harvest
riolila.-'
AnordlnK to Mr. Ityan. Klamath
Falls bus Seabed to be a factor In
the supplying of men for work on
lln Natron cutoff.
While this district used to sup
ply many of tin- men needed by the
S. I"., It now will not uverntte one
man a week, he declared.
This, he said, Is due to tho fact
that the faro from Klamath Falls
to tho sceno of operations Is now
Slli.bO. This mean that any one
Kofhit from here io work on the
cutoff miisl expect tij expend a total
of $21.00 uolSf! In and coming out.
This has been brought ubout by
ihe fact that most of the work on
this sldu of thi' divide has been com
pluted and efforts of the S. 1'. are
helm; concentrated on the Bugene
end.
As u result nearly all workmen
are being supplied from either Eu
gene or Portland.
A contractor who came to Klam
ath Falls during the week seeking
six Jack hammer men was unable
to hire n single one. the men being
unwilling to pay ihe stiff fan' for
tho privilege of slinging a ham
mer, Sllvcrton Lumber Co., silvorton,
tlM cIobpiI Its sawmill, but Is ninniiiK
th plunlng mill rogUlsrly. Kulph
Cowdenli son Kii is manager nf the
loBRin operations of the Ompo.ua
Mills Tlmbor Co.. Ree'dsport, ore.
- 1. .vi f '.mi lk-. -
Local Millwork Firm
Sold; New Company To
Operate At Stockton
! Wisconsin Man Is Purchaser of Successful Re-
manufacturing Fir mHere; Drehr, Acomb
and Henderson Now Have Large
Plant Under Construction at
Stockton, California;
Effective Soon
Sale of the Klamath Lumber and Millwork company
by j-j. L. Acomb, ons of the
"'. t rtyt tV 4 1 r niiinnnw,nnl fV coin "Vf
: Acomb stated that he, with Emil Dreher and T. P.
and that construction had commenced on the plant, which
when completed will be much larger than the one now
operated by the firm here
Too Bad!
rpHIS. bo far as is known, Is the
first action picture ever taken
of "Dad" Pierson of Lamm's mill.
wilh his demon Star car. In order to
take me picture tne i.uniiienogue
amera man wont out at night nnd
took the engine out of the Star. The
picture was secured 4i miles from
camp, just after IMerson had crawled
under mid discovered the engine was
missing. Picture copyrighted in Jugo
slavia and Iceland.
Fred Herriek Lumber Co.. Hums,
has purchased machinery and power
for driving piling for bridges on its
logging railroad. Excavation will
soon he started on tho mill pond at
Warm Springs.
Ye Harvest Tyme
HEREWITH is presented for the
edification of l.mnhorlogue read
ers the first authentic picture of Joe
Myerscough of Pelican Hay camp
, engaged
of bis crop of yearling turkeys.
For the benefit of the uninitiated,
this is what commonly known us
an "action picture."
The axe used by Mr. MyorscoUgh
is his own Invention. Tho handle
was purposely shortened so Mr. My
erscough could make bettbr, time on
I lie curves.
members of the firm.
T.'.e. r.ime jf the present company
will be be retained by the new-
Stockton fl.'in hut will not be used,
the new firm name to be the Stock
ton siding ..ompany.
Mr. Acomb and Mr. Dreher will j
move to Stockton anl have actual j
charge of cue plant. Hr. Henderson,
local manager t?T the Klamatli De
velopment compana, will remala in '
Klamath Falls but will reta.n bin j
interest in the Stockton company. I
Since It was .organised ho.o early
this season, the Klamath Lumber
and Mlllword company ijas been on?
of the outstanding successful re
manufacturing operations of this j
so.uion. Tho plant, one-half of
rhldh Is occupied by the Sixt'.i Street
Lumber company, was enlarged sev
eral times to meet the needs cf the
rapidly-stowing business.
It found a ready market for all
11 nivfltii-orl Thta f.io, loH n Hepl.
. sion t0 remain in the business in the
Stockton area and to erect the new
plant on a larger scale.
The Stockton plant will manufac
tucr moulding, siding, sash and
door shock and common lumber. Mr.
Kllingsoii i.s expected to arrive lacre
October 15. Sale price of the pro
perly was not made publlo.
Hassell Bros,. Dodge, are operating
a sawmill of 20,000 feet dally ca
pacity. The lumber is trucked to Es-
tacada.
in harvesting the first
Timber Beasts
And Squirrels
Fight For Nuts
Huge Store Laid By
For Coming Hard
Winter
Timber beasts at the Shaw-Bertram
camp, vlsloning a hard and
long winter, have seized upon a
novel method of keeping the wolf
from the door. -
This being the year that sugar
plno cones produce pine nuts, and
the falling crews now being en
gaged in work on the steep slopes
of Applegate mountain where sugar
pines ore plentiful, great stores of
nuts have been gathered.
Every cabin at the Shaw-Rertram
camp has its qnotu of sacked cones
and no timber beast considers his
equipment complete when he starts
for the tall timber in the morning
unless he has a full set of nut
crackers and picks.
The coneat retain the nuts until
the action of the sun has dried
them somewhat, hence the timber
beasts deck them along side the
logging railroad until they are
dried and then shake the cones.
At least that was the idea that
was first tried out. Then it was
found that the squirrels knew all
about the plan and beat the afore
said timber beasts lo the nuts. Of
late It has been found necessary to
haul the gatherings to camp every
day and dry them on back porches.
i
TO CLOSE WITH
Company has Best Cut This
Year Ever Made. Close
to SV4 Millions
EWAUNA GETS OUTPUT
Hauling to Klamath Falls
Firm Begins; 70,000 Ft
taken by Trucks Daily
After making one of the largest
cuts in recent years, ihe McCollum
mill on the Ashland-Klamath Falls
highway will close about October 15.
with a season's cut of approximately
five and one half million feet.
The highest previous cut was in
1923 when the company cut five mil
lion. The company began operations
this spring with the yards clean. The
entire output of the company i3 tak
en by the Ewauna Box factory in
Klamath Falls. Lumber is now being
hauled at the rate of about "0,000
daily.
Logging operations are being car
ried on by Mr. McCollum and by It.
D. Chamberlain. Timber is brought
from the Devine tract and from a
tract of government timber on the
highway, about two miles from the
mill.
Ford trucks with trailers have
been used all summer by the com
pany successfully in bringing logs
from the camp to the mill. Lust win-
I ter. In heavy snow, the light trucks
were used and sueceeueti in mahiug
long hauls where heavier trucks
would have sunk out of sight.
The mill has cut from 40,000 to
50.000 daily all year.
Goorgfe W. McCollum, owner of
the mill, some time ago had under
consideration the construction of
i larger plant, but this idea is under
stood to have been abandoned, duo
to the fact that prospective power
development on the Klamath river
will eventually flood Ihe site now oc
cupied by t lie mill. As this develop
ment is scheduled to tako pljice in
1930, Mr. McCdllttra abandoned tntf
Idea.
Youngs Bay Lumber Co.. Astoria,
which has been operating Ihe Bhtngle
mill three shifts, has started operat
ing Its sawmill two shifts, cutting
considerable hemlock,
Hammond Lumber Co. is con
Sgruetlng a new dike at Mill City
to prevent tho Satttlam river from un
dermining tho pinner shed nnd boil
er room during high water.
raw m
0EC000S BROKEN
RECORD GUI IS
M SOUGHT III
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Box Factory Turns out 22
Cars of Shook During
August Run
25 CARS THIS MONTH
Company Buys Production
From Many Small Mills
Operating Nearby
Following a production of
22 carloads of shook at the
Underwood Box factory
during August, the Lake
view company is going to
hit a new high record dur
ing the present month with
25 cars already marked up
on the production sheet up
to the close of count last
Saturday night. With two
production days remaining
in the month it is expected
that the output will reach
upwards of thirty cars for
the month. The figure rep
resents a shipment of two
N. C. O. cars each day dur
ing the month, or a fair siz
ed trainload each week end,
together with other ship
ments of lumber.
The factory now affords employ
ment to r,s men in the various de
partments and no shortage of labor
has been experienced during tho seat
son, in fact a standing list of appli
cants has been maintained at times.
While in general, the paper box
business has been making some In
roads into the pine box game, tbe
market is such that officials of the
company believe that it will be pos
sible to keep the factory under full
production up until the holidays and
probably right through the winter
in ease it is possible to secure lum
ber for the plant.
The factory has proved a most ex
cellent dumping place for the unr
der grades of lumber, practically all
of the smaller mills selling this class
of their output to the factory, and
in this way it has done much to en
courage manufacture In the entire
Lakeview district. During the past
month it has been necessary to run
an extra two hour shift in tbe eve
ning in order to keep abreast of the
incoming orders.
Alturas Hopes
For Pickering
Sawmills Soon
W. E. Pickering, presi
dent of the Pickering Land
land Timber company, was
an Alturas visitor Saturday
and Sunday, conferring with
Noble Weaver, local repres
entative of the company, re-
jgarding holdings in Modoc
i county.
The prospected S. P. ex
tension runs through the
heart of the Pickering Tim-
; ber in Modoc county and it
lis the hope of Alturas that
: activity on its behalf will be
followed by construction of
Jone or more mills by the
j Pickerings.
The Pickering interests
i own 150,000 acres of virgin
timber in Texas .where. they
operate two large sawmills.
iThey also have extensive
timber holdings in Louisiana
. where they operate two saw
mills, and also three large
! mills in California, the ap
iiroximate daily output of
(the Pickering mills being
! around one and one quarter
1 million feet of lumber, 1
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