Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-07-01

| ScaucS OF saw logs Dy SWORN olIlceI vi
the government, which measurement the
mills are compelled to accept, there has
existed among mill men generally consid
cradle dissatisfaction. They look upon 1t as
unjust and arbitrary, preferring rather to
| accept the measurement OF their own
scalers. On the other hand, the loggers
| are unanimously in favor of the law, bold
| ing that it cannot be otherwise than fair
and equitable TO all concerned, and that
| it is, moreover, the means OF considefa-
bic saving to the companies Under The
! present law the loggers are compelled to
| pay at the. rate OF five cents per 1000
feet for scaling their logs, while under the
former system the logs were measured by
the mill companies, without expense to
| the loogcrs. Hence il would seem that ii
there was any just ground for dissatlstac-
ton it would exist among the loggers, not
with mill owners. But this is not exactly
what ails the latter. Any one at all la
miliar with numbering operations on the
| Sound during the past twenty years
| knows full well how the loggers have been
systematically swindled by the unfair
sealing of the mill agents, whose meas
urement they were compelled to accept,
or 90 without, and in this way have been
deirauded out OF many thousands OF feet
and this too, perhaps, when logs were
worth but $3.50 per 1000. In many in
stances the measurement OF mill agents
has been so far below that of the loggers
that many of them have quit the busi-
ness in disgust, the profit after hard sea-
sons work being hardly sufficient to war;
| -, FNhat ~
the failures among loggers in the past is
directly traceable to TINS unbiushing sys>
| TEN OF robbery, as much as to any other
one cause, there can be no doubt. The
mill companies now refuse to take the
government scaling, and insist on having
their own measurement, and some are
known to have towcd logs to the mills
before they have been scaled by the gov
| ernment officer, in open violation of law,
and for which heavy fine is provided.
The government will not tolerate this
thing very long, however, and measures
will at once be taken TO ferret out and
bring the offenders TO justice. The inn
position of few heavy fines will doubt
less have soothing effect upon them. At
the recent session ot the District Court at
Laconner Judge Greene, i'll referring 10
this subject, charged the grand jury as
| follows: "Gentlemen--In the twentieth
chapter of the code there is a section
| (2651) which provides in effect that if any
person, firm or corporation shall remove
any lumber or timber from any county
where the same is doomed or RATED ready
for towing, before the same has been in
spccted and scaled by lumber inspector,
he shall be fined in any sum rot exceed
ing $4,000 nor less than $500. To make
such removal is made misdemeanor, not
in law but in fact, and the pre- secution in
dictated there is a criminal prosecution.
AS this is county in which there is
great deal OF logging done, and where
offenscs under this law are likely to occur
| if any where, and as the law 10 OF great
interest to the people, | charge you to in
quirc particularly into all otfenses under
this section. 1t yon find any such Of
lenses To nave been committed, you will
return indictments accordingly"
GEOLOGICAL SURvEY.-Amos Bowman,
having been appointed by the Canadian
| Government to make geological survey
of all that territory lying between. the
Similkameen and Thompson rivers, in
British Columbia, has completed all his
arrangements for that purpose, and will
leave here to-day for Victoria, thence by
steamer TO Hope. He Will be accom-
panied on the trip by II. p. O'Bryant,
OF Guemes, and V. M. Bunnell, of
Olympia, who have preceded Mr. Bow
man with the camping outfit aud two
pack animals, and Will await his arrival
at Hope. This survey is of great inn
| portance to the country, and the fact
OF its having been entrusted to Mr.. Bow
man is evidence OF the faith reposed by
the Canadian Government in that gentlc>
mans ability to successfully accomplish
this difficult task. We will end,avor to
keep our readers posted, .iom time to
| time, as to movements oil Mr.. Bowman
and party in that comparatively unknown
region. 1t is expected that the survey
will be completed in about four months
W.mATcoM SAW Mill. - The machin-
cry for the new saw mill, now under
course of construction by the Washing
ton Colony, at Whatcom, will be placed
IN position in the building as soon as
the remainder arrives from San Francisco,
Il portion having come already. The
mill, when completed will be three
stories in highth; the first story to be
used tor dressing lumber, saving shingles.
Hath, etc; the second story for the large
saws, and for logs to be hauled in, and
the third or top story, will be either