Aberdeen herald. [volume], July 31, 1911, Image 1

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vol. xxv.
A TYPICAL
LOGGING CAMP
Herald Representative Visits
Logging Camp of A. F.
Coats Company.
MODERN LOGGING WORK
Require Engineering Skill-
Steam Has Replaced
Cattle in Woods
Desp'ire the fact that Grays Harbor
is the greatest lumber manufacturing
port in the world; and in spite of the
fact that the prosperity of Aberdeen
and of the other Harbor cities is tied
up in the welfare of the lumber mills
and the sale of the lumber product,
there are hundreds of people who
know of logging and booming and
milling ouly as a phrase. Old timers,
of course, who have seen the trees
cut on the hills where the residences
now stand, and have seen the mills
spring up along the river, are familiar
■with all the details of the great lumb
er industry. But those who have im
migrated later, who are engaged in
business or in the professions or in
house-keeping are wholly unfamiliar
with the methods either in mill or in
camp. From them the description of
a typical logging camp may prove
instructive. And for those too who
Jiave tramped the woods, who have
watched men conquer the trees, there
Ja always something of interest in the
picture of the battle with the woods.
With the aim both at learning and
■describing a Herald representative
visited the camps of the A. F. Coats
Logging: company one day last week;
and by the courtesy of some of the
men of the company was given an in
sight into the work and life of their
camps in the woods along the Wish
kah river.
The timber industry has been great
ly changed since the days when men
cleared their little farms back In New
England and turned the logs Into
rough lumber at. some little one-saw
mill. While the axe and the saw still
remain the basic tools of logging,
steam and cable and railways and
telephones and modern engineering
have supplemented the hand tools of
the former age. Science is now con
quering the forests. The logging bus
iness too is not so much individual as
•co-operative. Logging is conducted
on so large a scale, the capital invest
ed is so great, the cost of keeping up
the camps is so large, that the indust
ry is the business of the corporation
rather than the single person.
A logging camp is a community of
its own. Of necessity it is removed
somewhat from the main current of
traffic, though in present day logging
the connection between camp and
world is far more intimate than be
fore. Its singularity is not so much
from isolation as from self-sufficiency.
The logging camp has its own line of
railway. One terminal is the river
landing, while inland the road sprays
out into many branches that end at
the frontier of the woods. The var
ious ca r.ps are the "towns" along its
route. The interests of the camps
are special, are confined to the var
ious efforts in logging and to the news
from other camps. The commissariat
is a complete mercantile store and the
pantry of the cook shack resembles
a wholesale grocery.
leaving on the "morning train"
from the river we climbed the ridges,
through the country already logged,
to the line of the camps about three
miles inland. The logging railroad is
not a makeshift affair; but shows
genuine engineering skill. The prob
lems to be solved are perplexing for
the ridges are steep and the canyons
deep. Frequently the grade was five
per cent., and in one place there was
a seven per cent, incline, making the
engine with its string of empty trucks
puff like the locomotive of au "Over
land." One spot showed peculiar dif
ficulties. There was a curve, partly
of 24 degrees and the rest of 30, along
a four per cent grade, through a 30
foot cut, with a short reverse curve
at the end. Cuts and fills are fre
quent, the biggest cut being 38 feet
and the deepest fill about 25 feet.
There are four camps out in the
woods, each complete within itself.
A camp consists of a cook shack and
mating house, several bunk-houses,
machine shops, and supply houses.
The buildings are small so they can
ABERDEEN HERALD
be loaded 011 trucks and moved when
the timber cut at any particular
point is completed. Each camp has
Its foreman, and a working force of
about 45 men.
In this country, owing to its rough
ness "uphill" logging is carried on.
The railroad, which Is the artery of
logging carrying in the supplies and
taking out the logs, runs along the
tops of the ridges. When a new sec
tion is to be opened up, the road is
put through to the end of a ridge.
The trees are cut down at the point
of the ridge first, down the side of
the canyon. The logs are then haul
ed away. The logging then follows
the top and sides of the ridge back
along the railroad. When the ridge
is logged the rails and ties, the donk
ey engines and shacks are picked up
and carried to some other point.
The cutting of the trees follows
the same methods as of old. Well
muscled men with axe and saw are
the "methods." The tree is undercut
in the direction it is to fall, then it is
sawed from the opposite side, wedges
being driven to prevent the weight of
the tree binding the saw against the
stump. When the tree is felled it is
sawed into lengths convenient for
handling, usually of 20 or 30 feet.
The really interesting thing in the
process is dragging the logs to the
landing at the railroad. Three donkey
engines are used. The first, the
"yarder" drags the logs up the hill. A
heavy wire rope is fastened to the end
of the log and then wound up on a
drum, thus dragging the log up the
hill over snags and around stumps
The line from the "half-breed" engine
then drags the log on to the skidway,
a sort of trough made of logs laid
lengthwse. The "roader" drags the
log on down to skidway to the "land
ing." Here the logs are rolled by J
means of cables on the trucks of the ;
railway. The work at the yarder and
the landing are most interesting. The
skill and ingenuity of the loggers is
here shown at its best, for the logs
must be handled in as little time and
with as few adjustments of the line
as possible. Each log presents a new
problem, both to the hook-tender get
ting the logs out of the and
to the loading boss who by means of
the power cable rolls them on the
trucks. While the logs are of course
not handled by hand, the strength and
agility of the loggers is continually
tried in fixing the heavy lines and
running about over the logs.
The trainload of logs is then hauled
down to the river landing where the
logs are picked up by the steam pow
er of the engine and dropped Into the
river, to float down the booms, there
to be sorted, made into rafts, and tow
ed down the river to the mills.
A story of a logging camp would be
incomplete without a description of a
camp dinner. When fifty men come
in from a morning spent in hard man
ual labor they are not to be satisfied
with a French menu and fancy table
i ware. They want something to eat
| that is bounteous in supply and well
cooked. And the dinner we ate at
I Camp 4 would satisfy the hardest
| toiler of the woods and the profession
jal gourmand of the cities. The camp
table was loaded down with victuals
of great variety and apparently inex
haustible supply. Rut the demand
was proportionate, and the soup and
beans and meat and potatoes, the
spaghetti and corn and bread, the pie
and pudding and cake, the coffee and
water and milk, disappeared iike mag
ic. For the cook knew his trade; and
the fifty men knew there was five
hours of hard toil till suppertime.
CAPTAIN FINDS CHART ON
WATER DEPTH WRONG
j That there are but 24 fathoms of
'water off Heceto head instead of 46
j fathoms, as the charts indicate, is
the statement of Captain Asplund of
the steamer Shoshone, now loading
at the Grays Harbor mill. Captain
Asplund made careful soundings
while off the head and is sure his
record is right. As a result, the gov
ernment will probably make a care
ful survey of the waters off the head.
The Shoshone, which arrived in
port Thursday, is loading 600,000 feet
of lumber for coast trade.
Con McGillicuddy, who has been
deputy marshal in Alaska, has resign
ed and returned to his home in Aber
deen, He wrts no' satisfied with the
Far N'orth.
Fred II Grorn, has returned to
Portland nt'cr spending his vacation
at Cohasselt and on an auto tour to
British Columbia. Mrs. Green and fhe
children are continuing their visit at
the beach.
Logging Methods.
A Camp Dinner,
SEMI-WEEKLY
ASERCEEN, WASHINGTON MONDAY, JULY 31, 1911
LOOKING FOR THE DECIES-GOULD WEDDING PARTY.
—Coffman n N«w York Amerioan.
SAN JACINTO
IS A WRECK
Steamer Loaded With Lum
ber Thrown on South
Jetty Friday.
SINKS IN 22 FEET WATER
Santa Monica Stands By Till
Ship Is Drawn Back In
Harbor By Tug.
Friday afternoon the steamer San
Jacinto, outward bound, was wrecked
on the South Jetty and sank in 22
feet of water. The steamer lost its
deckload of lumber, had a great hole
torn in her bottom, lost her rudder,
and had her hold cargo of lumber
waterlogged. The steamer Santa
Monica stood by the wreck, and Fri
day night the tug Printer after con
siderable labor, towed the vessel back
into the Harbor. Saturday morning
she was towed up the Harbor to Ho
quiam, where her cargo ts being dis
charged, so the damage may be de
termined and the vessel repaired.
The wreck occurred in a dense fog.
As the vessel, loaded with lumber
from the E. K. Wood mills of Ho
quiam, and bound for San Francisco,
was endeavoring to cross the bar, she
was caught by a choppy sea and heavy
cross currents. She was carried out
of her course and thrown on the South
Jetty between Buoys No. 0 and 2%.
A hole was torn in her bottom and
the water rushed in filling the hold
and sinking the ship. The seas were
running high and washed the lumber
from her decks. The men did not
desert the ship however. Some of
! theme hovered close to the ship in
: .small boats, while the others, includ
' ing Captain Carlson, remained on the
| ship.
The steamer Santa Monica stood by
the wreck but was unable to assist
because they could not, get a line to
the disabled vessel. The life-saving
crew also reported but there was
nothing to be done.
The tug Printer, Captain Ericson,
had a hard time getting the San .la
cinto back to the shelter of the Har
bor. She had to drag the water log
ged steamer over the bar, which was
, the more difficult in the darkness.
1 Captain Carlson and his men remain
ed on the ship till she was towed to
1 Hoquiam.
Adam Schneider wha was injured
a week ago at the Slade mill is re
ported to be on the mend. His leg
which was fractured is resting more
easily. He is at his home.
Frank Law has taken a position
with the Hoquiam Packing company
and will locate at Moclips. He has
been connected with the Grays Har
bor Railway and Light company.
The search for Callesto, the man
who shot Tom Rice, has been contin
ued intermittently but with no suc
cess. The last trail was followed to
Westport, but nothing developed.
HERE COMES THE BRiOL
COALITION NOW
HAS HIGH HOPE
Democratic - Insurgent Com
bine Expects to Pass
VETO THOUGHT CERTAIN
Provision Placing Farm Pro
ducts on Free List
to Be Cut
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 28.—
The fight of the democratic-insurgent
republic coalition for broader tariff
revision gained ground today and it
was confidently predicted in both
houses that a conference compromise
wool bill, the farmers' free list bill
and possibly the cotton bill, with steel
sugar and other schedules would be
passed.
Meantime tTie indications are
stronger than ever that President
Taft will exercise his veto power on
tariff legislation prior to the submis
sion of the tariff board report in
December.
The cotton bill probably will pass
the house next Thursday. Democratic
leaders say that if the present pro
gram is carried out there is nothing to
prevent adjournment about the middle
of August.
The plan contemplates a compro
mise wool bill on a basis of 30 per
cent, a'd valorem duty on raw wool.
This measure will go to conference
next Monday and Tuesday.
The free list bill, instead of being
handicapped with the sugar, wool,
steel and other schedules as riders,
is to be changed only by the Bailey
amendment, which strikes out the pro
vision placing farm products on the
free list. This amendment is neces
sary to insure the republican insur
gent. vote.
Democrats of both houses express
ed certainty that the free list bill will
be put through the senate next Tues
day by the same combination that put
the wool bill through.
The intention of the free list bill
as a whale, as the insurgent senators
regard it. is to compensate the farmer
for the loss supposed to have been
inflicted upon him by the acceptance
of Canadian reciprocity and they will
not consent to any extension to other
countries of the free import provision
on the products of the farm. Practic
ally all the opposition to the bill on
the democratic side will be because of
this amendment.
'•\Ve are not going to try to put any
of the big schedules on the free list
bill as was at first contemplated," said
one insurgent senator. "We want the
President to have an opportunity to
say whether he is willing to do any
thing to recoup the farmers of the
country for the loss occasioned them
by forcing the passage of the reci
procity bill, and we shall not give
him the excuse for a veto that he
Revision Bills
Farm Products Stricken.
Insurgent Game.
might find in a coiton or a steel sched
ule "
The wool bill will be sent to con
ference Monday or Tuesday. It will
be called up in the house, then by
Democratic Leader Underwood disa
greed to, and both houses will appoint
conferees. The house conferees will
be Representatives Underwood of Al
abama, Randall of Texas, democrats,
and Payne of New York, republican.
Republicans Will Not Serve.
Senator Penrose said the republican
members of the finance committee
would not. participate in the confer
ence and added that he would make
an official statement to this effect
whenever the question of selecting
conferees comes before the senate.
Senator McCumber of North Dakota
it developed, will decline to serve,
notwithstanding he voted with the
combination for the modified LaFol
lette bill. Mr. McCumber wants to
get away from Washington early next
v. eek.
CLAY TURNS OUT TO
BE WEALTHY RANCHER
Man Held in Montesano Jail as a
Swindler Found to be Oklahoma
Rancher.
Henry Clay, who has been held in
the county jail at Montesano for the
past three months on the charge of
swindling the White Steam Laundry,
of Honuiam, by passing a worthless
draft, was released Thursday. Nor
man Pruiett, an attorney of Oklahoma
City came to the county and secured
his release, disclosing that Clay was
really Frank H. Carr, a wealthy ranch
er of Pauls Valley, Okla. The debts
of Clay were covered and the two
started back to Oklahoma.
Clay, who came to Hoquiam and
posed as a wealthy Southerner, nego
tiated to buy the White Steam Laun
dry, passing a draft for $125 as part
payment. The draft was returned for
lack of funds. Clay or Carr was ap
prehended in California, brought back
and held at the County jail awaiting
trial. Carr appealed to his attorney
in Oklahoma City, who as soon as he
could get away, came to arrange for
his release.
■Carr is a peculiar character. For
two years past he has traveled under
an assumed name, having left his
home and wealth. He has had many
exciting adventures in Arizona and
other western states.
ABERDEEN RESIDENCE
RANSACKING A MYTSERY
Whether she is the victim of her
friends or of professional footpads is
the problem that is bothering Mrs.
Fred C. Davidson, 1190 East Second
street. Mrs. Davidson is stopping at
the home of her father. Judge J. C.
Pearson, during the absence of her
husband in California, but makes
daily visits to her home.
Thursday when she visited the
house, she found everything in wild
confusion. Tables were overturned and
drawers ransacked, the dining room
table being pulled out to its full lim
it, cupboards and closets being also
rummaged.
Nothing had been stolen, however.
Mrs. Davidson has come to the con
clusion that either her friends broke
into the house and played a "prac
tical" joke on her, or else some burg
lar was ransacking the house for
money.
EAGLE SMOKER WAS
LARGELY ATTENDED.
The Kagle smoker held Friday ev
ening in the Eagle hall was one of the
biggest affairs of the kind in the his
tory of the lodge. A big crowd was
present, both of the lodge members
and of their friends and a royal time
was enjoyed by all. The chief feature
o' i lie evening was a series of boxing
matches. Four events were pulled
off. In one of them the knock-out
came in the first round; but the others
lasted longer. The bouts were fast
and furious and the crowd was highly
entertained. Music was furnished by
the Eagles' orchestra. Allan Dough
ertv and Mr. Bergren sang some solos,
that added to the entertainment.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Marlatt are visit
ing the Pearsons in this city. Mrs.
Marlatt is the daughter of Dr. M. H.
Pearson, and will spend several weeks
visiting with relatives here. The Mar
ians live in LaFayette, Ind.
A. H. Griffin has returned from Seat
tle, where he attended the annual ses
sion of the Washington Hotel Men's
Association. Through Mr. Orifflfci's
efforts Aberdeen was chosen as the
meeting place of the association for
next year.
INDUSTRIAL
INSURANCE
J Geo. A. Lee Chairman of Com
| mission Outlines Benefit
| of New Measure
SEES SPREAD OF MOVE
Properly Administered Act
Will Inaugurate New In
dustrial Era.
SEATTLE, July 29.—George A.
Lee, chairman of the new industrial
insurance commission, which is to ad
minister the workmen's compensation
act passed by the last legislature, ad
dressed the members of the Seattle
Commercial Club last evening.
Chairman Lee said that the visits of
the different members of the commis
sion over the state has convinced
them that an overwhelming majority
of the employers and employes favor
the principle of workmen's compen
sation, and that wherever there has
been criticism or objection it has been
found to be a misunderstanding of the
salient features of the act.
Sees Spread of Move.
Mr. Lee said that he would not
claim that the act was perfect, but
that as Washington was the pioneer
state of the Union In enacting com
pulsory state insurance, it was a safe
prediction that it would not be slow to
correct any of its deficiencies and that
within ten years every state in the
Union will have compulsory state in
surance in one form or another.
"General Idissatlsfactton with the
present system of employers' liability
was the basis of this legislation in
this state," said Mr. Lee. "The chief
objections which have been urged not
only in this state but throughout the
nation generally, with the old system,
are: First, that only a small pro
portion of the workmen injured by ac
cidents get compensation, and, as a
rule, they and their dependents are
forced to a lower standard of living
and often become burdens upon the
state through public and private char
ity; second, the old system is waste
ful, being costly to the employers and
the state, and of small benefit to the
victims of accidents; third, that the
system is slow in operation, involving
great delay In the settlement of
claims; fourth, that the operation of
' the old law breeds antagonism be
tween employers and employes and is
inconsistent with present day indust
rial conditions.
Remedy a Necessity.
| "These evils of the old system be
icame so flagrant and pronounced that
; remedial legislation of some character
: became necessary.
"The law enacted is designed: First
to save the tremendous waste of the
present system; second, to provide an
incentive for the prevention of acci
dents; and, third, to shift the burden
!of economic loss from the workman
and his family to the whole body of
consumers, by making accidents part
of the regular cost of the industry.
Nor is this question a new one in this
state alone, because economists,
judges, lawyers, representatives of
employers and others are constantly
and seriously agitating this question
the nation over, at this time. . T
New Economic Era.
! The Washington act, if properly ad
! ministered, Mr. Lee contended will
I bring about a new economic and in
dustrial era in the state, will save the
! enormous loss of the present wasteful
; and expensive system, will wonder
; fully, ameliorate the conditions of
i workmen and their families, and will
i produce a better feeling between em-
J ployer and employes which cannot
i help but advance the industrial pro
gress of the state.
J. H. Wallace, another member of
the commission, also explained the
terms of the new legislation, which,
he said, would be found equitable in
all its provisions.
THEATRICAL CHANGES.
A deal was consumated Saturday
night whereby Harry Chandler se
cures the management of the Bijou
theater in this city and the Arcade
theater in Hoquiam, H. B. and Ferdin
and Faunt Le Roy retiring.
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