The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-07-30
A Good Letter from Barnett.

Your regular correspondent from this
end of the county will please understand
that we do not wish to intrude on his ter
ritory, rights, or privileges, neither to
steal his material for news letter; but
having enjoyed the pleasure of bit of a
tramp through a part of "Old Forest
quite recently, and knowing that very
often what is quite commonplace to
resident and likely to go unmentioned on
that account may be quite interesting to
stranger and to others, we concluded We
wouldn't intrude much, If any, by way OF
a letter from part of the county in which
we have had always a local pride, along
with few stray items CLEANED other where.
Work out here has been plenty so far
this Summer and everybody has been
busy. Quite number o. boats are being
built at Clarington, Maple Creek. and
Coleman. The Maple Creek Lumber
Company are having their boats built at
Maple Creek. At present the scatfold av-
erages about two boats each week. The
Company has two mills, one at Redclyffe,
and the other about miles from Redclyffe,
at the Maple Creek Siding on the p. & w.
r. r. All the lumber sawed at the last
mentioned mill is shipped on the P. & w.
During this summer large part OF that
sawed at Redclyfie is hauled to the Clarion
river at Maple Greek and most of it loaded
into boats there-the heavier stuff being
rafted-and thus shipped to market by
water Six or eight teams are now en-
gagged in hauling there, making two trips
per day. To facilitate hauling the Com
pany have built plank road for two miles
from the mill over what would be for the
most part swampy ground and intersect-
| ing with the Marienville road near the
middle of the big windfall. Both the
Company's mills are stocked by means of
| tram-roads.
Shippen's mill has been in operation
| probably a year-maybe longer-we are
not certain. The lumber cut there is
RATED and run from Buttonwood, 2 miles
above Clarington, to which place it is car
ried from the mill OH cars on tram-road.
The loaded cars un to the creek by grav-
| ity.
Shields and Beesom have bought the
timber on the Lowry tract, near Hominy
Ridge, and are taking out and hauling the
same to the creek. The good price for
timber this Summer has stimulated con-
siderable activity in the timber business,
and an effort has been made TO get quite a
little to creek, where possible to do so, to
run during the Summer freshets. More
especially is this the case up above Clar-
ington along the Clarion where the dis
tance to haul is not so great.
We do not wish to slight anyone, and
there are other persons numbering besides
these we have mentioned, but we do not
know enough about the business to ven
ture information. Wages are good fol
good hands.
An oil well is being drilled at Button
wood on the Forest county side of the
Clarion. About 25 years ago good gas
well was found on the Jefferson county
side of the Clarion near the same place
Considerable wild-catting is being don,
up above here, principally on the Soutl
side of the Clarion. Du Bois, Reynolds
Vile, and some other places, we believe
are now supplied with gas from the we'll
found some time ago near the mouth o
J Milestone.
, We have had no rain over here for SOM
time, and unless we soon get some we
weather hay will be about the only crol
we will harvest, to any amonnt, this year
} We have lots OF hay-more than SOM
folks have money. Oats are nearly fail
ure. Potatoes will be good if it rains
Corn may DO first rate, if Summer last
long enough. On Monday morning last
7 July 2l, John Hulings of Redclyffe, wrot
his name in the frost on board at tina
place, so cold was it. Potatoes there wer
J "nipped" just little. The dry weather
I drying up the backberries, and withOu
rain the crop will be short and the frui
small. There are some raspberries, an
they bring from 10 to Is cents per quar-
: The prospects are good for large crop c
o beechnuts and acorns. Fish are repOrte
very plenty on the lower Clarion, bu
here they are very scarce owing to tn
. filth poured into the Clarion above thi
2 from tanneries, and TO some extent frOr
a the practice of "explosive fishing"
A strange animal has been seen an
i heard from for a year past in the wood
!. bordering Maple Greek and the hea
. waters of Cherry Creek. 1t is describe
a as having a long body, short tail, larg
feet, short legs, of n dark brindled c
: striped color, with short ears-probably
o Canada lynx, who, tired of waiting fC
e annexation, has concluded to emigrat
Last Summer a gentleman fishing o
Maple Creek about 4 miles from the mout
' of the stream found grown sheep lyin
b in the bed OF the stream killed and partl
It eaten by some animal apparently within
"a day or two of the time of his discover.
and near the sheep a five-pronged buo
> deer lay also with its throat cut, 4
doubt by the same animal both probabl