Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-01
MICHIGAN LOGGERS.
THE REGULAR WORK OF A LOGGING
CAMP AMONG THE PINES
Choppers. ssvyers, "Ssampers" AMI '-skid-
der."-The sprinkler At Work-A
Monster Slei.h-"A Tight
Pface"-Loss of Live.

Charles Ellis in The Current!
First. tie ais are locatsl and graiei
Z r thi, is 4 bus.nes' that utterly rfu {,
move Oh bai rJa IS y xt. tn. SKI xays,-
or raise bottom upon winch tn, logs ar, t.
be piled pre- aratory to loa ling them up N
the sieighs ater IN the seas N. are preplrsl
Then, tbs work OF loegly oe,inS Crew or
gangs Of men, tire, N g .ch; one chop e.
who sele Is ami notc.e the tree tia. ia TO
/ lie felie |, AMI m assures a III trim, t. IN uu
( when they are down. an two awyers, W 10
/ fell the tr AMI Gu. thu lo.s off. ta..tls
! lea Th.-s are followed b. thu
-swanpers, who, with wslI-t-aie /
horses. ira. thu log, TO the sxiiways wh.r,
the "ski ilsr," ta&s chir,s or tn IN AMI.
+ with tn aii o; to 1p-s. .l.tl.fnl IA r. %
rooi-sh tp'i pie, m stin tlir-y e. n "a
At the sam. Il ne am D m'n i a. yD.k
On tie + al IF IN camD 10 river. wait.sr IL,
LOGS ar. 10 b. ira "r-.l IN winter. THIS
Is very important pat tisI i,J- a,tis
( 81 ce,> oi the winter, " tx Deepen l. upon
tie ability 10 DO Il great deal o. hIJi - ia q
saOrt zine. Hill, NUT be avoi Is |. aat col
q len iy tbs r lid Will follow tn. l,wl liL,
AMI tnis ma run Il -ol,a swamp that .rs
sometime, verf ,iiilicu 10 get over When
the cold waiter sets IN mel are put ito
SSNA ~ III u liz u i tct tlOO
mire. a in That sta 1t fre,z.s IN II, rss iily
than whom covered with grass, roots All
waer.
A. soon - the rol Will bar team, n
gang Of men IL .eat out at night to work
upon 1t with "ths sprinkler Tnis /, box
butt upon logging s!ei rs Tor the purpose of
hauling water over the roads an sprink-
LIN, the track mt each side in which the
sci rba
freezss, AMI thus a rad Of ice is formed lit
tie By little that VIII last for weeks after
snow roads have entirely disappeared. I
have So n sprinkler ut work that weighed,
when loadel, thirteen tons, and tina: was
drawn 10y one pair OF horses; ami | have
Leari luin SerInen say that for an alI-wint r
work of cutting All hauling, they would
rather have no Snow at all, preferriny to
mike their roals in this way, entirely Of ice.
Hauling begins wiki the freezing of tbs
swaInps, gen orally about the middle of De-
cemae Tken the pile, of logs
by the T1a lids ara broken down
This work is often full of danger to limb and
lio OF those engaged in it, and only tbs
strongest and mot ekillful caIt-hook men
are selected for ioldsrs Snow and rar
have irozsn upon tAs log, and they stick
The LOGS are no. taken down fr 1m the top Of
the pile, tut Gr ksn cut from the bottom.
Where they are fr,z,n together you vii
sometimes see them work 81 out until Sheer
front OF twenty or thirty feet i, presented
at the bottom Of which the ,nel must expose
Themselves To brea. out tho bott ,In log aad
bring the whole pie down have s.en such |
pile come down with a leap that sent great
logs flying like sticks clear out over the
sleigh, filling the r. ad full
Tee sis!Sh Is IN i;>slf 4 curio -ity to ons |
whose mental image Of a sic Oh i .hs ligh. |
dashaway cutter OF the fnsnionabis drive |
tbs monster OF the woods has iour
runners. measuro' abou: thr,y feet |
over all, is from eight to nlns fist |
ieim, weish@, when fully equippsi |
5oj pouni-, AMI has a carrying capacity /
Of al! you can pile on-am uniting some
times 10 Twelve AMI fourteen tons 4 load /
that pair Of these great hor eS, trained to |
camp work, viii walk away with "a ,ly. In |
cur camp the l.g- are Sal Ided aloa; a roai |
that has light duwn-.ra 10 that finally
reaches bos IN with a somewhat al ru lt
pitch hat T.S.s . ab,ut an equal hsign, on
the opposite sd. l. team we're {, hoIl
back II ! al coming DIVA tai, H. All
were 70 stop IN take breath at the oltt N
beiore taxing tho uphill it would n,v,r
- s-'A ~ tiis ltll l
b. virtue OK the aaw o. ssav.t-. So a lsI;
tha team All iad are pea IN um; tn. m y
Il! .!su.H which it takes On mia i,wa 10
III centre WI, carry 1t up GA G - osaer 81 10
ID camp r, know al. about the trick OF
get NJ over such era g: AMI iI is a pretty
b a 10 ~es one OF them le-c-ei IN to top
ci Il al, :, ioal. some ine, Tx .ert aoovs hi
team cone .o-n thai a Il with tie hor,es
gradually II III. II Nv
the time III y src ,ro-in to bolt III thy
are gh.n iAc tie win an 20 continue u,
the opp ite Il e, unit the loa has era u lily
exhausted its IN men. un. an tGey come TO
4 walk and isAe up the slack o. the irscs,
Just in line to keep the loa IN NIT N ov.r
IA CT. W. Of tho hIL Sometimes. 100 it i,
amusing 20 IN ssh .ck' taat
s. farm team AMI teams err, new to tns
bus ne :. co lie down thas hill with q Lad
TLc fir tins they generally get STUCK
Then they viii watcn a camper do II. and
heir success VIII depend their power OF
The camp team,ter is not n ,isy
10 his team. ave w.eI it gets into "a tight
plac', and then be burst, his mouth ov r
il like a thEn.erclap DC a,ionally a team
ail' t. 90 all that i expected o. it, and then
lie teaDiNtsr gets angry, AMI abu es the al
mot always willing and grand horses until
|. too. beeom, indignant. and get
,way where cannot ses what l canno, pro-
rent
Many man has lost his Ifs by an acci-
lent IN the logging camps In Michigan the
lumhsr OF q ALTA by such means reaches
rom sixty IA Ssyen., in a season The team
tiers are the est exposed among the men,
although 60 an observer unfamiliar with the
LANCER, Of such place. they seem to be
riJst txpcs9I. But driving team Is terribly
old work. Reop.s WAC get up at O'Clock
mi d their work IN warm rooms have but
! feeble conception OF what It is TO get up
md out b WORK two hours before daylight.
With tn, mercury column putting on airs at
v degrees below zero On such a morning
HI atmosphere is - penetrating that il
nakes ms dizzy. ! seem t. DO drunk On
'Ivgen, and | wonder If 1t isn't this cheap
method o. getting set up that makes these
sld Low. love this life 50 well