The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-05-02
100000 feet of lumber were used

was built three years ago this month. A
log is adjusted at the mill, and as fast a:
the boards are sawed off, they are run or
rollers to the month of the shute, and ir
forty minutes they are on the bank of the
East Branch. DISTINCTIONS are kept ou
of the shute by boys, who are placed abou,
every two miles. A continual line oI
lumber, is running through during work
ing hours. This firm have in the neighbor
hood Of 2 100000 feet to raft this spring
At Deposit, Devereaux & Clark have
100000 feet of hemlock, sawed. which
they are hauling to the bank of the Della.
ware to raft this Spring. They have a
portablr mill which is moved from one
tract to another, where the lumber is
sawed and hauled in to raft.
Several million feet of hemlock logs
will be RATED from Hales' Eddy, and
Henry Evans has from 100000 to l.
00O, 600 feet of hemlock at his mill.
Ten Mile River.-This rough and
rapid stream traverses a fine lumber sec
tion in Sullivan county. 1t starts in the
town of Bethel, and empties into the
Delaware at Delaware Bridge, in the town
of Tusten, abut Mast Hope Stanton &
Calkins have large steam saw mill on
this stream, and have 100000 feet of
sawed hemlock to run this spring. They
bring their logs into the mill from the
woods by wooden railroad. Their mill
was ereted last summer Previous to that
their lumber was all sawed at Locke
meyers mill, the logs being floated down
the stream to the mill. The capacity of
Stanton & Calkins' new mill is about 3
O0O, 900 feet a year.
Nathan Calkins & Bro. have manu-
factured about million feet at their mill
on Ten Mile River. Calkins & Van Tuyl,
at their mill on the East Branch of Ten
Mile River, have several thousand feet of
logs to run. They generally get out a
large number, but owing to the absence
of snow their run this Spring will be light.
They have a tract of 1,500 acres at the
head waters of the East Branch. Their
mill is run by water, large reservoir
supplying the power in dry weather.
Willinski's mill has from 100000 to
10000 manufactured hemlock.
Like all the lumber regions in this Sec
ton, hemlock takes the lead on Ten Mile
River. There is considerable second
growth pine, which presents very hand
some appearance when sawed, but is not
stable Ten Mile River is not navigable
for RATS, aud the lumber is hauled to the
bank Of the Delawre by teams from the
mills, which are distant from three to
eight miles.
The Lackawaxen River is the largest
tributary to the Delaware, and immense
quantities or lumber annually find mar
ket from the vast region that this stream
affords an outlet to. The Wallenpaupack
creek empties into it at Hawley, and the
Dyberry creek at Honesdale, down which
millions of feet are run, and swell the
grand aggregate on the Delaware.
Kimble q Stanton, whose mills are on
the Dyberry, five miles above Honesdale,
have 100000 feet of hemlock ready to
be RATED. E. q G. Kimble have mill
farther up the creek. They send olso
large amount of lumber to market Kim
BILE & Stanton are among the most ex-
tensive operators in the Lackawaxen
& Collingwood, at
being the only firm exceed
ing them at present.
Hawley is the first place that rafting
has commeced this season. The Paupack
is navigable for RATS from Ledgedale, IA
miles up, to the Falls at Hawley, where
the lumber has to be taken out of the
water and hauled to Hawlsy, where it is
banked and RATED, or shipped by canal
and railroad. Since the opening Of the
Hawley Branch of the Erie Railway, the
amount of lumber RATED from Hawley
has decreased materially. Lumbermen
from up the Paupack seeking Philadel-
phia market have precarious undertak-
ing. They start down the Paupack with
RATS, and they must trust to luck for the
freshet to hold out while they take out,
haul, and re raft their lumber in the
If the freshet continues
they 60 on down the river; if not, the
lumber is piled up to await the next
freshet, causing very frequently serious
to operators.
At Ledgedale are the extensive mills
Of B. G.. Morss & Co They RATED l,200,-
900 feet of hemlock to Hawley this season,
where it was bought by George Hittenger
and Ed. Malone, who are rafting it at
that place.
The upper waters of the Paupack
furnish power for many mills, and Green
township, Pike county, has abundance
of them. Horace Kip, the Gilpins, Borse
& Bortree, and others, are among the
minor lumber operators. Some of their
lumber reaches maket by the river, but
the most of it is hauled to Gouldsboro, on
the Delaware, Lackawauna and Western
Il. r., and shipped by rail.
The Promised Land Mills, 10 Pike
now owned by DIR. Jos. Jones, Of
Honesdale, manufacture lumber ex-
tensively. These mills are twelve miles
from Hawley, and the lumber is hauled
to that place by teams. DIR. Jones