The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-19
LOGGING BY railway.
What Steam Has Accomplished for tn
Mississippi River Logging Company.

Mississippi River Logging Company.
From the MiI5cdukee Sentinel
CHIPPEWA FALLS, March 3.-A cold
wave aud furry of snow has dispelled the
fear of the loggers that the spring breakup
was at hand, as sesmed evident. The indi-
cations are good for at least four weeks Of
winter, unless rains precipitate the break
NJ, and this VIII be ample tins for the con-
tractors TO complete their contracts. Up to
the present time the number Of logs banked
has been far beyond the expectations, and
there is little probability that there will be
a shortage in the log cut. The loggers will
continue work as long as the snow lasts
and if their contracts are filed they will
bank few extra logs.
AS the winters seem to be mora and more
uncertain, the question Of logging by means
of logging railroads is receiving the ssri lus1
attention of iumbermea generally. With
such roads logging can be successfully car
ried on without regard to the weather
Within the last two years q number of such
roads have been built as experiments and
the results attained have surpassed the ex-
pectations OF the most sanguins. One of
the best examples of what can be accom-
plished by the new method is that of the
Chippewa River and Menominee road, in
this county. This logging line was built
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at a cost of about 100000. the line starts
from the Station Verona, at the junction Of
the $780," and follows Mud creek for
merly.. DEVILS creek) from Verona to a
point above Weyerhauser, a distance
OF twelve miles. The forest is dense with
fine pine trees. Two engines are employed,
one being for switching and the other for
hauling the train. When train is made
up it is composed of from forty to sixty
cars, each cont lining an average of $500
feet of logs. In the twelve miles there is a
grade OF 260 feet, and in some places it is 60
feet to the mile. A steam derrick is used to
load the cars, and it also follows alongside
The train on a side track and picks up the
logs that frequently roll off. The main
landing is on the main Chippewa, and the
large pile of logs now banked there is 200
feet wide, from Is to 25 feet high, aud a
mile and quarter long. 1t contains 81, 600
logs, or 1000. 900 feet. Several million feat
will be added to this within the next thirty
days. In the spring the pile will be
broken up by means of dynamite and the
logs fioated down the river. The other
landings are male at points that have been
formed by damming the creeks and forcing
the water into two natural reservoirs. These
logs will be allowed to remain in the ponds
until required during the summer They
are removed by stationary engines that
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They fasten to the logs and lift them out OF
| the water onto platform, when they are
loaded onto the cars, which when full are
run down a steep grade to the main line and
| hauled to the main landing.
The whols system is conducted on a SEN
sible basis, and in telling the timber only
as much as can be hauled is cut down,
hence there is no waste Over 800 men are
| employed in the twelve camps that are
| faH oil ho -, Iafl
are made with the log trains, aud speed
of forty miles an hour is often made. Up
| to the present time 100000 feet have
been banked. and it is expected to adj
| 1900, 900 feet to that amount.
That this mode of logging is practical is
evident, and the number of such lines will
be increased in the near future. Teams
cannot be done away with altogether, a.
they are needed to haul the logs from where
they are felled to the railroad. but as the
Distance is so short the loads can be hauled
even with little or no snow.