Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1886-06-18
Interesting to LOggers.
GIGANTIC LOGGING OPERATIONS.

| GIGANTIC LOGGING OPERATIONS.
The Tittaba wassee Boom Com
pany, of Saginaw valley, Michigan,
was organized in 1864. Previous to
that year iumbermen cut their logs,
and sent their own crews up the
streams to drive and raft the logs to
the mills. As the industry enlarged
the necessity for unity of action be.
came apparent and the result was
the organization Of the company with
Lorenzo B. Curtis as President.
The business of the corporation is
managed by board of seven direc-
tors. 1t was chartered for 80 years,
the charter expiring in 1894. Under
the law all over IL per cent. Of the
receipts, after paying expenses. is
rebated to log owners pro rata, and
the company is modest as we'll as
generous, for it is historic fact that
it has always sclupulousIy adhered
to the IL per cent. limit. Since the
company commenced operations it
has raj ed aud delivered 46 6,54S, ,973
pieces, scaling 1864, 1851 feet.
The full complement Of men usually
in the service of the company is $50,
but thus far this season only 800
have been employed. Runners re-
ceive $35 and $45 month aud
board, raftsmen, sorters, etc., $50
and $32 and board, and meu on the
rear S26 month aud board, and all
are allowed for extra time. At pre-
sent only aEou, %, 900 pieces are de-
livered daily. III 1864 the company
disbursed for rafting plus 81. .248 81;
in 1884 it diebursed for pins $ll,-
9SS Is. In 1864 it paid for rope
"a, 859 79 and in 1884 the di.burse-
ments for rope were S75,052 20.
The company owns its own tugs,
batteaux, ETC., anc buys coal by the
cargo. The books of the company
show the average scale in feet OF logs
RATED each year, and it shows a
wonderful depreciation in the size OF
the pine logs of the Tittabawssse
and its tributaries. The average
scale Of logs for 1866 Was 249 feet,
which has since decreased from year
to year until it got down to 124 feet
in 1884, aud 115 feet in 1S85-nn
average not one fifth that of the
logs of the great Puget Sound tim
Der region, where no log ls taken
that does not scale ut least 300 feet.
The estimate of the quantity to be
RATED this season by the Titabawas.
Zee company ranges from $50 .OQO,-
600 to 375, 200. 900 feet. Tue larg-
est quantity in any one season RATED
and delivered was GIL ,S62, go feet.
Last season only 326 ,7S4, ,160 feet
were handled.
AN IMMENSE BARGE.
The Eruery Lumber Company, of
Bay City and Saginaw. is about to in.
augurate an innovation in the N. thod
of transporting saw logs. The com.
pany owns loo. 900. 400 feet of timber
in the Georgian Bay region, which
it proposes to manufacture at its mill
at East Tewas and Grow Island mill
on the Saginaw river. Last winter
the company put in $1,000 pieces
estimated at 100000 feet, AID
has constructed at Bay City. q barge
to be used IN carrying these logs.
She is to be launched the present
week. 1t is estimated that she will
carry 10000 feet of logs, and she is
provided with machinery, manufac-
tured on the Saginaw river for load
ing and unloading logs with dis
patch. This craft, the latgest ever
constructed on the lakes, is 272 teet
long. 81 feet beam and IL fee. depth
of hold. The reason for her CON-
paratively slight depth of hold is the
fact that no logs are to be put below
the deck for transportation. but they
will be loaded entirely ON deck.
She has on board, as stated, machin.
cry and all the appliances for load
ing the logs expeditiously. and hence
can be loaded in an incredib ' short
space of time. She has five center
gunwales, from buttom to deck. all
edge e-boited, the sans as the center.
board, and diagonalIy braced on
each side of each gunwale, and fore.
locked on gunwale. The name of
| tblS leVlathaD OF the lakes is to be
the Eahnapetae, which ls the name
OF the river on which the company
operates. in the Georgian Bay coun-
try. Her cost is $55, 900. If the
project proves a success one or two
more will be constructed. A good
many lumbermen are little skepti.
cal as to the result, believing that
rafting would be less expensive.
The company expects to pu, iu about
IL. .OOO, 900 yearly.-Chicago Lumber
man.
THE Santa Barbara papers note
| with prid0 the fact that the white