The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-12-18
The Michigan Lumber Business.


and about how numbering is carried ON there. |
will try to give pen picture OF the same through
the columns of your valuable paper.
think have said IN Il former communication |
that in that section it would cut from ten 1" thir-
ty thousand feet. fr.t class pine lumber, To the /
acre. may add much of il will cut, or mas cut. /
t,rty thousand feet of first class pine to the acre
I his is eNciusive of shingle timber and Timber
for .ec.n,i uud third class lumber.
A Mr.. hail. of Detroit. Col. Fuller. OF Sas
nav, and Mr Remi.. late deceased. OF Detroit.
owned hundi eds sections ot these valuable
timbercd lands. Tuey were from the State of
Maine Juru and raised I" the lumber business.
They would let one. two. or three sections 10 a
IN an, OF t" It company of men. to cut all the hrst
.Iass rine clear irom knot and rot. and no log
les. than sixteen inches in diameter at the all
eud the leg within a stated period of time to
be ut in the booms at Muskegon BIy, distance
a.: tLirIy 10 forty miles. where they are sawed in
10 iun,ter-
| will now give description of the b. 4 q
Goii.iua camp and numbering. whi.'h is 4 tIr
average one. Their section tsix huudred and
forty acres of land is run out and marked for
them, to cummence on. All through the lum
berng part OF the State the owners Of these large
lumberIracts have had I"aI roads . iroads oven
which 10 haul supplies IL Mhete they mauI lum-
brr camps builU GA! uut. the lr.i is rolling aud
sandy. and they only have 10 cut The tirnber and
logs out uf the way and The road is ready. These
roads are suueiuiues thirty. forty. and fGy
miles long stuIt ag from and terminating i'll suit
able places 10 purchase camp supplies The tod
kimS BROTHERS took 4 section "f Col. Fuller /"
lumber. situate y miles :. 4. Of Silver Lake. III
Glare County.
| The nrSt thing tn he done is TO build what IS
| called the house. or dining hall. This is a one
story log building. :aiNIO feet, built of hemlock
and Norway pine logs. twenty to twenty four
inches through; board roof = pitch, one floor in
the building. and one bed d-roOm therein for the
! boss and ms vile. Then there is the building OF
the sleeping hall, "x'O feet, one story, built iht
same as dining hail, with three tiers of sleeping
hunks on each side. and ten foot washing sinh
| in one end. Here a hundred and twenty to on,
hundred and eighty men can sleep. These build
ings completed. a large force OF men and team
are employed to erect other buildings, and to Gu
| out and grade lumber roads. The other build
lnI o: four stables, 3Ox61 feet each, with row
| OF uvIpe stalls on each side OF each "t thes'
buildings, with puncheon h1ors IN each stall an'
hail Il feet wide running the whole lenghtl
| through the center of the building. In thes
four stables from sixty to eighty teams are kept
and then there must be building about 2Cx3
feet, in which to keep bailed hay; then ther
| must lie another building about the same size, t
be asco us store mousse Tor gram ior the teams
and also another building about l6x4l feet, for
store house lor pork, h)ur. meal, Ond such Othc
articles as may be necessary for culinary purpoS
cS. There must also be a building for stable fv
more teams-one team for the boss. or foreman
TO use. III looking alter matters III general Ill tn
!
| nUSlheSS' one team To maui the sprinkler l.
| SrrinNle the roads every day IN W inter. whcr
! tue hca'S hauls oil logs are made 50 that tn
| ro"oS may oe' on inc leaus anu up gradeS' as ir
as poSSiole' anu Two teams TO t"at supplies iron
| town lor men anu teams' anu 10 repair roads AM
sand down grades on the log roads. These build
| 'hss all Completed there must nc BLACKSMITH
Shop, Il common work SHOP about 3Oxio iect. II
which TO bulid anu Keep III repair the bob -SlcdS
SHOE hofscS' HE saws ana ii" All k'hdS ot me
chahlcal WORK hecesSaiE ior lulhocrlls camp
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