Wednesday Qetojbw T '"r
THE LUMBE It L OGUE
IB
Says Local
Camp Still
Has Record
Severance Disputes Cal
$ ornians' Claim of
$ Log Loading
,if ornians' Claim of
(H.v Jus. Severance-)
ticjio MinVrioRac of Hcptcnibcr
23 tllt'co is an art it'll- staling that
the Red River Lumber company of
Wostwood, ("iilif., exceeded tin- ce
roid made la-l year at Algonul load
iui; sliorc logs.
To keep ilii record straight, would
Ilka to give llir following fails pub
licity. The Algoniii I.uhiIht company iu
loading their 40 cars ust'il standard
8. P. cars, each car equipped with
4 bunk chains and li wrapper chains
in nil 210 chains. The cars were
loaded straight and oven with (lie
bunks in accordance with railroad
regulations.
The Ked River IjhuI'T company
uses Its own cars which ar:' equipped
with so-called "cheese blocks." The
logs, arc saddled in ami in case the
hunk loffs overreach the width of
the Curs, It-makes no difference, as !
Ihn liters mo r -:, 1 1 s ct h i , I tiitlv fill til,' '
The size anil tin nuinbvr or logs
1ooUh1 by the Rwl River Lumber
company prove that their timber is
of bigger dimensions than the timber
loaded at Algoma. The Red River
Lumber company used sij Bet cruis
era, the Atgomn three Holt cats and
4 old fashioued wood wheels. The
advantage in handling is with the
Red River Lumber company.
The logs loaded by the Algoina
Lumber company were Iiandled, little
and big, as they laid on the landing,
Mnled by me as to their commercial
volume and Termed by the Phuio:lv awoV a fad be mttrriri -i-.i
ernment scalers on the cars.
As to the reward, the Algotna
jammer crew got double p a y
and a very substantial dinner,
wliirh although it was no i tur
key, was very acceptable in view of
the financial "sauce
Am very glad to learn that Mr. J.
Cameron of the Red River Lumber
company is credited with making the
record, as thai gentleman received
his first lesson In short logging from
the A 1 go ma Lumber company In
1023.
If we dissect the two methods as
to loading, using chains and number
and size of logs used by both lum
ber companies, it will show the Ore
gon record still stands and Paul Bun
yan in, Westwood still has some dis
tance to go.
Mr. Severance was formerly scal
er at Algoma. He sent in a photo to
prove his argument regarding chains.
Editor.
Winter Of The Blue Snow
Was A Dinger; Cold Was
Source Of Annoyance, Too
(Republished by special arrange
ment with. Esther Shephard, au
thor of "Paul Hunyan." Published
by the McNeil Press, Seattle. Price
12.00).
One of the worst winters I ever
put in with Paul or anywhere, for
that matter was the winter of the
Blue Snow. It was so cold that
winter that the loggers all swore
blue streaks, and the snow all turn
ed blue came down blue in the first
place, and then turned bluer after
it touched the ground.
It was sure a pretty sight, too.
though you couldn't forget the cold
long enough to look at it. Blue, bine
everywhere, us far as the eye could
sec, stretching along the West in
tho open places, and in the woods
around the trees, a Utile mound
around each one with Just a little
hold in the middle where the tree
wns!
Tjie two Joe Murphys brothers
one! of em named Pete had the
Jobiof holding up the sky-lines in
camp that winter, and I used to help
'om sometimes so I seen a good
ilea of the snow mor'n my share,
llkejY
It wns a hard Job we had. for
the snow Was nearly the same col
or as the sky. so that you could
hardly tell sometimes where one
Jott off and the other began like
the time wo wns laying out the ice
road around n big hill In order to
get away from the grade.
We'd been working for about a
week or so, ami then all of a sud
den we came out and the hill was
all gone, aud It had been a big
t loud Uuii. we had been trying to
Work around", mid that way. it was
Ewauna Will
Get New Shay
Early In Yearj
70-Ton Model To Be
Delivered About
April
Ewauna logging U'ain
crew will be entrusted with
the care of a new 70-ton
Willamette Shay Logging
lomocotive about April 1,
officials of the company an-
J J ! , v L i
nounceu uiiiiiu; uie weeK.
I i he com)any now lias a
tti-ton American rod engine
in service.
This will be retained for
main line duty. With the
coming summer the com
pany expects to open up
new territory which will in-
volve very steep grades and
it is on these that the new
engine will receive its tiy
out Wedding Bells
Cut Loose At
Pelican Citv
Lumber Paymaster,
t r
jLong omiiten,
Falls
Among the notable happenings of
the past week in l-cal lumber cir
cles was the wedding of Herman
Grisvold and Miss Pearl Renie. Mr.
Grisvold :s paymaster at the Pelican
Bay Lumber company and Mrs.
Renie was also employed at the com
pany offices.
The wedding was a surprise, no.
because it happened, tm because the.
brltle an.l tzro?m electeil to i.iuo
and groom elected to t
Dunsmuir, uiu:h to the BorririB .
many, friends who h-itl aattein i
ceiebrating the aUir In a fitt-i Kg
p.nd proper manner,
.Mr., and Mrs. Gr.srMd v.-'.'l mV..L
their home in Klamath Fall1-'
to the fact that, this .is WSA ptfia ptli
liiufs ,oi year in the lumlK-r suije-fl A
their wedding trip has been pot p ::
ed until a later date.
Get Outfits for
Great Duck Hunt
Johnny Johnston and Hook Mct
Cpllum yrerp hurried Klamath Kails
visitors Monday, obtaining materialr,
for the hunt. Bach bought a ronf
plete outfit, Including the nobby hip
flasks so much admired by the elite.
Between trains the boys intend to
work out on the ducks and geese in
the Williamson marsh region.
hard- all right, and walking around
In It up over our shoes aud rubbers
every day wasn't whet you might
call comfortable cither.
And there was the snow snakes
that was the worst of it that win
ter. All over the ground.' no matter
where yon went, there was them
snakes crawlin around, and you
couldn't hardly get away from them,
for they'd coll up and Jump at you
If you wasn't careful and a bite
was almost always sure death. Soon
as they hit you you'd freeze to
death and the only thing that
would save you was a good drink
of whiskey.
And the little pesky frost-biters
up in the hills was pretty bad, too.
though not quite bo bad as the
snakes but they'd worry you a lot
more.
It was sure cold that winter so
cold that the words froze in our
mouths and Paul had to send to
Kngland for a frozen word inter
preter. Some funny combinations
came out that spring when the
words began to thaw out I tell
you, you'd know then what the
hoys thought of you. all right.
One fellow that talked an awful
lot I he words froze so thick around
him that Paul filially had to get
the Blue Ox to haul him out at last.
And the green hull-cooks froze in
their tracks every time Paul spoke
to them. It wns a great winter-.
Portland stevedoring Company,
Portland, Ore., has been sued for
126,000 damages by Luurltz Olsen,
who alleged he was injured by fall
ing through an open hatch while
loading lumber on the steamer West
Niger, March 10,'
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CUT JUICE COST
I
Will develop Approximately
625 Horsepower, Using
.. High and Low Pressure
: OFFERS BIG ECONOMY
Installation, Utilizing Ex
haust Steam, Removes
Need for Other Boiler
I An uuswor to thoso who so strong-
ly Insist that the lumber business Is
i wasteful may he seen in the installa
tion of a mixed pressure steam tur
bine at te Latum Lumber company
mill ill Modoc Point, the turbine br
uit; designed to operate in such u
manner as to utilise even the ex
haust from the shotgun feed and al
so from oilier mill machinery.
A similar turbine is now in use
at the plant, of the Wood Lumber
company.
The turbine now being installed ill
the Lainni plant Is described us a
SIS K.v.A. We.-tiuslittuso mixed pres
sure. It will develop in the neighbor
hood of 63fi horsepower, according to
$i rHJI utinter of the Sawmill En
gineering and Cotisiriici ion company,
under whose jupervisioa the lusta!
latlon i. being nmde.
Cnlil the sawmill shuts down this
your the turbine will operate on a
combinttioa of ; exliau and high
frrsMire steuiu. When the exhaust
st. am proves insufficient to turn the
turbine fans, an automatic valve will
cut in the hig.li pressure steam. The
turbine will generate sufficient power
for the operation of the dry kilns and
the planer, which have up to now
been run by electricity.
At Pelican Hay a high pressure
turbine Is now in use, operuting the
mill.
Because of Its ability to use mixed
pressure steam the turbine will re
move the necessity for purchase of a
SSO horsepower boiler. Air. Hunter
said.. . , . ,,. .. ,.. s ,
It la believed that successful op
eration of this turbine at the Lamm
plant will eventually result in, simi
lar installation in many other mills
in this territory, where electricity
purchased from the California Ore
gon Power company is now being
usefl exclusively.
S
REDUCTION NOW
II II R6UHE
Mors than 100,000 Ft Daily
is Delivered to Local
Yards, is Report
BAD WEATHER HURTS
Several Logging Operations
Brought to Temporary
Halt; Long Cut Seen
Lumber production 'in the Lake
view district has reached maximum
production for the season, averaging
around 100,000 fdet daily, reporti
from that section indicate.
Of the above amount; approxi
mate 70,000 feet is being handled
by the Underwood Lumber company.
The remainder II being shipped i
unfinlshed lumber via the Nevada,
California' and Eastern narr i V
gauge.
Output of Hie Underwood box 'fac
tory for September reached 28 cars,
a re:ord tor the concern, with only
l working days In the month. .More
than 800,000 feet of lumber was
handled by the compaaty during the
month.
Recent slornny weather in 'he
Ivakeview district proved a great
hindrance to logging operations, for
a time causing the closing of (OVfral
ramps. These have now resumed
operations.
A few at the smaller mills arc an
ticipating closing down during the
present month, but toe majority are
planning on operating until IBOiW
flies.
Much lumber Is now stored In the
various milt yards tihrnughmi. the
district, too wet for hauling. Op
etators are jilnuulng on hauling lb
late season out to Lukevlew after
culu weather appears and the roads
are f rosea solid. At present truck
crews are running on a continuous
schedule, day and night.
rntu HITS MILL
BRBWBTBR, Wn. Fire recently,
gutted the Hyde & Rnwloy sawmill.
12 miles ifrom here. Quick work
with water from a tank saved about
100.000 feet of piled lumber. Origin
ut tho fire is unknown. No Insur
ance was curled,
181 TO
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LMEH MILL
Y. ML C. .A
Man Will Direct
Club Action
Chosen As New Secre
tary At Pelican
Bay
Kred llrooko, fernicrly in clin'ge
of Y. M. C. A', uittvltles at lluy
un.md, Washington, has beou ablecloa
sb the new dlnvu'r of fie Pellcnn
Bav club.
Mr. Broojtt has lofl (or t' e is'i
Ingtosi town and expects to return
to this section la about it week, utter
he has w-juud up porionrtl air.ilis
He will be uccompaiiletl here uy ids
family.
I'm II his return uu oiitllu of
projected activities for the coming,
season Is obtainable.
It is expected flint Hie .lab will
continue to lie a till factOI le BUD
liivlshig the recrciilonal .rulvlilcs
of employes of the otu,i:i:iy, with
the eivepUon u( those worVlUi In
tlie camps, who do not .inn ui'der
lis liiClheuce.
Brayinill Wants
Decent Road Up
Toward Chiloquin I
ATter a rnrctiil resnnto of con,ll
ttoni lu t-ie automobile miirket an "
a long talk with "Dud" Plsrtoa of
idoo Polpt and also with, the nil
tor of te LtimberroKue, Wi'ltc:
Henry of Cae Pelican May Oommun
ity club has purchased a Star cur.
.Now that the purchase has been com
pleted and Harry Is 'Irmly honked
both huve Joined in telling him ell
about hit bargain. He will reenter,
Sawyer-Setter Shortage Near
Air And Klectric lltias Remove Need for Men on Hushing Carriages
Trade Now Hard One To Learn
Arc sawmill setters and sawyers
to become as fcftlriet as th" dodo? 1
.This question, often heard in the
past few years. Is hegiuning more
and more to perplex mill owners.
following ulmostj'iinlvHrsal adoption,
of the elecric or Wr dog.
In the good, qld days, youths who
aspired to become sawyers or setters
began in the orthodox manner, dog-i
i ging on lie- carriage
j In time, when they recovered
I from their seasickness, they began
I to look about and to observe the
I actions of the u tter and tho saw-
I - i : . 1 r - . '
They learned the setting signals,
observed lite action of the mechan
ism and in general figured out what
It was alt about.
i lie ii , uiiii iiaoiy, us now , came
the happy Monday morning when
the setter failed to sbov; up. Even alone are Betters and sawyers grad
the sawyer might be numbered ualcd and with the school removed
among the missing. Such enscfl are
on record.
In either event, the aspiring dog
ger got a chance to play with the
set works. If he showed reasonable
Initiative and his tryouts didn't re
sult in wrecking the entire mill, he
was finally given the setting Job for
keeps.
Then. If the mlllowners or man
agers happened to be men with
fairly liberal Ideas, he was permlt-
This Man Sure
Ought to Find
Work in Klamath
The LU'mberlogUI bus received a
letter, from Repress, California, and
herewith prints It without comment.
Name on file here lr yoti can give
him a Job:
"Oentlemen:
"I am a man of good habits. I
don't list; nn kind of liquor or
drugs; I am a hard and faithful
worker In lumber camps as rigger,
book tender, fireman, etc. ('tin tlo
anything. 1 want to get employment
of any kind, steady work, mill work,
lumbar camps, box factories or any
thing, i do ail kinds of construc
tion or railroad work, tunnel work,
etc. Will be very glad to work
for tin. Southern Pacific or anybody
else. Can do ranch work, pick and
shovel work, drive leiini, cook, herd
Shetfp, do hoisting and derrick work,
signal work by flags or whistle,
cemet and con: I ruction work."
(Name oh request).
DRV till AM DB8TROVKI)
TACOMA. Wash. Fire recently
destroyed all the dry Ulna of tile
PftClflC llox I'll, causing' a lOU Of
approximately $76,000. A consid
erable Quantity of lumber mid sev
eral small buildings of the company
were burned. For a time tll fire
threat tied to spread lo other Indus
tries on the Uda flats area.
K. & C. ILL HAS
RECORD RUN FOR
PRESENT SEASON
Cut this Year to Amount to
Approximately Six and
One-Half Million Ft.
TO SHUT DOWN SOON
Mill to Cease Operations
About October 10, Pros
pects at This Time
With a cut of mure than 0, 000,0(10
feel, the lugoat III tin1 history of
the concern, the k a r. mill lu the
southeastern pail of the county will
Sn.nl down about October 10.
Ta season the mill cut about
five mid oiie-luilf million leei of
pine and about 806,000 feet of fir.
The enttfG output of the in 111 was
sold this season to the Associated
Lun)bar & Box compnuy of Dorrti,
as ill past years.
The lull has averaged about IS,
000 feel per Mill ft this season.
Previous to this year, the largest
cut tvr iiiado by the mill was five
I ami one-half million feet.
Next season a Trout set works will
he Installed, sccoidlng to II. i ioi-
uant, ntajorft owner in the mill,
Th K.,.A ('. Lumber company,
though commonly considered a. Cal
ifornia company baoanse of the fact
that itu poaiofflce nddrew Is Durrls.
. .in pregon coiuern. situated near
the soutliern boundary of the county.
It was founded lu lOlle by Q, II
KeSti i'sou ami II. I'roiauut. In tti
fall of ItJM Kestenion sold his In
terest to I'rolsunt and this year
Crolsant sold a one-fourth Inter
est to Chester Tompkins.
t d to take u few leuotti which
tnugtlt him tho secrets of slimgim
feed lad nfUat control.
Finally, some morning the sawyer
was numbered umotig tho 'mttalngi
The setter, with fear and tfemblwjfj
pfflcluted la bis stead.- It be pass
ed the day wlhout wrecking the
'mill or killing th new setter, ho
in time graduated into the ranks of
tho lumber urlsloeracV, buosmln
full-fledgcii sawyer.
The foregoing Is approximately
the manner In which most of the
present-day sawyers and setters
lenrned their stuff.
Now the days of band doggera
are numbered. Air and electricity
have taken their place and except
In small outlying mills there I.; small
opportunity to learn the art of aw
ing from the ground up.
from the iichnbl of Experience
millmen of the next generation will
face the problem of educating new
men or taking drastic Btepo to
make preBcnt-day sawyers and Bet
tors lajt as long as possible.
One factor In the situation which
may prevent a shortage Is the num
ber of mills In the south which are
cutting out their holdings and which
arc releasing for service in the wost
sawyers and setters with proven
ability.
Ford Plays Big
Part in Local
Lumber Industry
With Fords everywhere on the
highways) it is not strange that
Kordson tractors have found a sir
manenjt place in the local lumber
Industry.
Fordson tractors lire used In the
yards on 'train hnulH at many local
mills. A Forduon tractor Is used
as a power plant In a small mill
operated near Eagle Ridge Tavern.
Ford trucks have been used suc
cessfully by the McCQlluBl lumber
company near Kcno. logging In loose
ground where heavier trucks would
have been mind. Now comes the
announcement that a special trailer
Is being devised for use in connec
llon with the Fordson, so Hint loads
may he hauled that will compare
favorably with those hauled by the
larger logging trucks.
Flllte DKHTROY8 Etll IPMENT
COTTAOE fjROVISt Ore Three
se Hons if tho land being logged
df by tb Anderson & Middleloi
Lumber Co., al Ha ttujada camp
lias been burned over 'by fire, II b i i
been dapplttedi Two donkey en
gines, I wo railway bridges, n quan
tity of rOfS and 1 igglng equipment
wire destroyed, The heaviest loss
wiis down timber. Utile damage
was done lo standing limber,
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Vj. VjICWS
This Winter
Scheme Tried Out in
Other Years With
Success
Longing operations will be carried
on all winter lu the caiiipu of the
K, ,4 C, and Topsy lumber com
panies, lu Hie I0U thorn part of
tho county, is the prospect now.
Due to luck of log ponds this has
been a necessary move ou the part
of these companies for the pail
few lessons
According to II. Crolsant of l lie K
& C. Lumber company winter log
glug. though more costly, can be
curried on successfully lu Hie Khun
nth region.
Logs out tall winter are decked
near the o hSQll at the mills uf"
flolenl to lust fur the first twit
months of the season, when they
cannot be Itiiuled from the woods.
After thai the haul Is made directly
10,111 Hie woods to Hie mill, elimi
nating the expense of ftseklol and
re-hnndllng.
Mill Man Has
New Views Of
Lake
Pelican Bay Employee
Has Unusual
Studies
VVlttD every relldcllt .,! Klalnalii
county of the opinion that that Is
only one place from which u proper
picture uf Crater Lake can be tukuli.
it has remained f r Lee liuvls, em
ploye of tiio Pollean Hay Lumbar
company, to demonstrate Hint possl
billtles for artful photography at
the lake were gener.ill, UOrMtlSSU,
Mr. Davis mas for 14 yeura u
phot, gr.iphcr in Hohuri. Oklahoma.
Included lu his experience Is a or
lco of some years for the U. 8
government, during which as tricl-
S photographer for ivU-nUfi
facator he arcompauled expedition!
.to tbe Uelgmt) Conxiu Ijrttlsh kU
.V.'lea, J.iv, Roman, Japan ull.l
JR& V -v j-' (-M l
Desiring a Change from Hie cm
fining life of u photographer, he
can)! to Klamath Falls and t ok the
Ilrsroutdoor Job that offered, which
ilmpponod to he one with the Pelican
May Lumber company.
Ill bin spare Hiuii since i: union
here lu, ban occupied himSclf Willi
taking unusual and 'beautiful pic
tures of the Klamath country.
Ills equipment being of the best,
he has obtained some olrklsg ,Jlc
turea of upper Kliunuih Like, taken
fr m new vlewnolntn, with. Itatl)lug
:loud efforts.
The photos ho Iiiib taken t Crater
Lake, In addition to their nrt, SOOV
up strikingly the great distance from
too top of tho ckUfs urottnd the
shore to tho surface of the lake
Itself.
Drying Sheds
at cflgoma to
e Constructed
New drying; slusls, with nn ap
proximate capacity or one mid one
ii. ill million feet, ore soon lo lie
constructed at Hie Algoina Lumber
company plant. Plans for the struc
ture are now being; designed hy
Muti i u.iii, general manager of the
company. The sheds will store the
output oi' tins planer and dry kilns.
The kiln buttery, II Is expected will
lie placed in service Sometime dur
ing the coming week. Installation
of the boiler iins delayed operation.
Topsy Mill To Be Moved To
Dorris; Eight-Mile Logging
Road To Tap Timbered Area
i .,
The mill of the Topsy Lumber company, owned by the
Kestersons, will be moved to Dorris, California, this fall.
The new location is about eight miles from the present
tite of the mill. The company has about 35,000,000
feet of timber in what is known as the Vanata tract.
Inability to get timber near the present location of
the mill made a move imperative, was decided early this
season. Officers of the company decided to move to a
new location near the timber stand but were forced to
abandon this plan due to inability to secure a good water
supply, vital to successful opsration of the mill.
At a meeting held in Dorris, citizens of that commun
ity pledged themselves to secure a right-of-way for, the
mill from Dorris to the timber if the mill would be built
in the town. This has been done and the mill is now
cutting fir timbers to be used in construction of the new
plant.
An effort to purchase Weyerhaeuser timber near the
present mill site was unsuccessful,
Two Shifts
AtEwauna
All Winter
First Time in History of
Big Concern, Work
Entire Year
That the sawmill of the
Ewauna Box company will
operate two shifts, all wink
er, providing weather condi
tions will permit ,wn an
nounced yesterday by C. H.
Daggett. This will b the
first time in the history of
the concern that double
shift, all-winter operation
has been attempted.
This will mean that the
camp will be run until some
time in December, later than
ordinarily. There is now
about eight million feet of
logs in the pond at the mill
and it is intended to in
crease this amount to four
teen million before the camp
is shut down. Fourteen mil
lion is the extreme capacity
of the boom.
, Work has begun on instal
lation of a condenser, by
means of which exhaust
stetni will be used to heat
water to be utilized in keep
ing the pond open in extre
mely cold weather.-
1
Ml. Hebron Firm now Ship
ping from two to Three
Cars Per Day
Mill of the Blsllyou lumber com
pany niny run late thin season, ac
curdini: to Information received here
during the week.
The mill Is now shipping from
two 10 Uiree cars dully and Is cutting
from BO, 000 to On, nun foot dnlly.
About lie men are employed ut
the mill ami about lu In the woods.
, A Km(l ,.rc.k hu!) . dammed
to make n small pond, though Its
slr.o Is rather n handicap.
RoCSUSO of ihlii fact, logging oper
ations must be kept uniform to par
allel the mill cut.
Pulley, Now Minus
Appendix, Hopes
For Recovery Soon
Kd Pulley, demon brakemsn, is
recovering from an altercation at
the Klaingth Vnllpy hospital during
the course tf which be was separat
ed .from his appendix. Operated on
less thnn a week ago, he Is already
figuring on I he time he can leave
and resume his duties as official
rear-end hrukeiunn on the Algoma
logging train. Ills term at the hos
pital has 1 n considerably bright
ened by nn Influx of visitors, most
of them feminine.
SISKIYOU MILL
WILL RUN LATE
BELIEF NOW
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