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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1960)
herald And News; Klamath falls, Oregon SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, I960 PACE TWELVE t. ''Vi . ' - S...,F Ij'Ojt .WW JOHN MARKER, left, scales timber as Will Jensen tallies the footage at the Lava Burn. The two men are U.S. Forest Service scalers working ahead of the skidding cats. , Photo by Kite I , - v '4-:- fTwA USING THE BULLDOZER above, assisted by another, the 26-yard capacity trucks are loaded in 90 seconds. The fast trucks are able to make a round trip in 18 minutes. Photo by Kite AN INGENIOUS MEANS of fast loading cinders to build the logging roads in the burn area. A dual purpose logging truck equipped with belly dump cinder haul truck. This truck and two others, designed by Ned Putnam of Klamath Falls, each haul 26 yards of road ballast material per trip. . Photo by Kit Lava Burn Logging Dusty, Hot Chore For Machines And Men During Summer By RAY KITE McCLOUD Dust, rattlesnakes, wind and lava rock are but a few of the hazards in the Lava Burn logging operation, far removed from any habitation. Deer calmly browse on new shoots which grow from the burned brush, while power saws purr and the familiar cry of "timber" rings out as trees crash to the ground. Heat, so in tense it melted aluminum parts of a wrecked airplane, did not eli minate the snakes from the burned area. 'When the salvage work is com pleted, replanting of the area will start," Frank Fry, assistant ranger said. "The long range program will be to plant about 10,000 acres of the 14,000 acre burn. Planta tion work will be carried on as fast as funds are available for replanting." The harvesting of salvage timber is in progress now at the Lava Burn, 46 miles east of McCloud. Ned Putnam, considered by many to be the second largest logging operator in the United States, is logging salvage timber there. About 12 million board feet of fire damaged timber will be sal vaged and truck-hauled, to Klam ath Falls when the operation is completed. The burned timber is in the McCloud Ranger District of the United Stales Forest Service, Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Chiloquin Timber Company of Klamath Falls was high bidder on the sale, .Many logging operations are being carried on by Putnam. So great are the distances between his several operations, he flies his own plane from job to job. Direct ing the landing on logging roads or cleared areas is daily routine. Before the logging trucks can transport the timber to the saw mill, roads must be built. Three converted logging trucks haul cind ers from the cinder-pit to use as ballast on the roads. Road con struction work of near-legendary faul Bunyan proportions are re quired. The trees must be harvested ba fore weather damage or insect in festation occurs. 351 Coyotes Wiped Out The predatory animal catch in Oregon for a one-month period, to mid-November, lists 351 coyotes, 91 bobcats, 26 bear, and 27 fox, for a total of 405, the State De partment of Agriculture noted Fri day. Cooperative hunters, working with the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, also downed 82 porcupine, 66 badgers, 23 skunks, 55 rac coons, and two opossum. High hunter for the month was Robert E. Long in Malheur Coun ty with 85 coyotes and 9 bobcats. James R. Morris, Lake County, ac counted for 28 coyotes and one bob cat. Hunters who caught 20 or more coyotes were: James Chetwood, Umatilla; J. Chesley Hart, Mal heur; Raymond C. Houston, Lake; and James R. Morris, Lake Coun ty. In western Oregon, Henry W. Alberts posted 12 coyotes, seven bobcats and four fox in Josephine County, while Kirby J. Tant ac counted for nine coyotes, nine bob cats, two bear and a fox in Jack son County. The figures are from the reports compiled by Melvin D. Smith, district agent of the Branch ot Predator and Rodent Control, Portland. CASUALTY LIST JANESVILLE, Wis. (UPI)-Po-lice who arrested Raymond J. Nohr for being drunk said they did so only after his car had smashed three parking meters; plunged into a cellar, breaking a door and a window; mangled four rubber traffic cones; crushed two garbage ' cans and squashed the toes ot a passerby who tried (o stop the auto while Nohr was driving it. Your Chances Of Staying In Business Are W4 if you advertise! "95 of all failures in business are from tha ranks of non-advertisers. Only 5 of those who fail are advertisers." Dun & Bradstreet for Advertising that gets RESULTS... Use The
