The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-02
The Lumber Regions.

1he iumoermen In the regions up the
river have had busy winter, notwith-
standing the lack of snow at many points.
The wheeling has been good, and proba.
bly, as much sawed lumber has been
banked" as would have been had there
been sleighing. Not so with logs, although
at and above Narrowsburgh large plumbers
have been brought to the water. Millions
of feet of round lumber have been left in
the woods owing to the absence of snow.
Considerable oak, ash aud maple will be
run down the rivea this season. Pine
has been growing scarcer each year for
ten years in the forests along and adjacent
to the Delaware, and the product now is
very small-nOt enough, in fact. to sup
ply the home demand, if operators were
satisfied to dispose of it at home.
There is piled on the banks at Bar
ryville, drawn the past winter, 1900 600
feet of sawed hemlock, to be RATED this
spring. 1t was hauled from Johnson's s
mills, at Pine Grove, Brodhead's mills, in
Bethel and from Morrison's. These mills
are all 10 fourishing condition, although
operations on the Brodhead tract have
been somewhat limited since the death of
John Brodhead. Gen. Walker is still
interested in this tract. The lumber at
Barryville was drawn on wagons, the
nearest mill being Ii miles away. The
Johnson's are talking of building a wood
en- railway from their mill to the river.
To get 100000 feet of lumber in the past
winter cost them $4,000.
The Holbert's at Mast Hope, will
probably send more pine to market this
season than any other operators along the
river. They have an immense quantity
banked ready for rafting, both sawed
aud round.
John d. Branning has 100000 feet
of hemlock logs at Narrowsburgh, on the
Pennsylvania side, to run this spring
Holdert 4 Branning, at Equinuuk,
have over 100000 feet of lumber to
run. This firm has three steam circular
mills, one alone having a capcity of 90
600 feet day. This mill has the largest
engine of any in the whole section. They
will construct soon a shute from their
mills, on the south branch of the
Equiuunk creek, to Cooley's on the
Delaware, between Little Equinunk aud
Hankins, distance of five mics, for the
purpose of running their lumber to the
river 1t will be similar to that of Beales
& Holcomb which will be described here
after. The shute will cost about 5000.
Wood and Boyd, of Eldred, Wayne
county, Pa, will ship 1000, 900 feet OF
henlock and considerable other sawed
stuff this Spring. They haul their lum.
Der three miles to Milanville, where it is
banked. Believing that an outlay of s3,-
900 TO build shute that distance will be
economy in the end, they are about con-
structing one. This firm is one of the
most popular in the whole region. Capt.
Lennox, who has towed RATS from Tren.
ton to Philadelphia for years, will put
new tug.b boat in the river this season,
which he has named the Thomas Y Boyd,
in honor of the junior member of the firm.
Isaac Young, whose steam mill on the
Little Equinunk, between Hankins and
the Basket, was destroyed by fire week be
fore last, has l 100000 feet of hemlock
to raft. Mr. Young will probably dis
pose of it to other parties at home, in
consequence of his losses by the fire, and
not seek market down the river.
Dodge & Tyler have recently erected
new mill at the Basket. They have L.
500 900 feet of lumber to raft this Spring.
At Hancock the East Branch of the
Delaware comes in. This stream trayerses
the best lumber region. Immense quanti
ties of lumber come into the East Branch
out of the Beaver Kill and its feeder the
Willowemoc, which comes in at Westfeld
Flats, Delaware county. Raftmen never
have time to fool much with the Beaver
Kill 1t is liable to a fresbet at almost
any moment, and lumbermcn. must be
ready for it, and pull right out. They
say railroad train has no business with
raft coming out of the Beaver Kill aud
Willowemoc creeks.
On West Branch RATS run some times
from as far as Delhi, but the region there
about is getting pretty well thinned out
of lumber. The heaviest operators along
the West Branch are Samuel Sands,
Stephen Whitaker, Geo Hawks, and
Marvin Wheeler of Hancock. They are
not manufacturers, but buy and sell on
com mission, and on speculation. Mr..
Wheeler probably superinteuds the run
ming of as much lumber as any other man
10 the business.
The most extensive operators 10 the
Reaver Kill region are Beale q Holcomb.
Their mill is on Trout Creek, tributary
of the Reayer Kill, having its head 10
Long Pond, in the town Of Fremont,
Sullivan county. The mill is run by
55 horse power turbine wheel. The
water comes from a reservoir covering
200 acres, aud has a head of 26 feet at
the wheel four circular saws in the mill.
The capacity of the mill is about 5,000,-
600 feet year The lumber tract be-
longing to this firm contains 5000 acres.
A novel feature at these mills is the shute
by which lumber is RATED to the mouth