The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-02-20

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for New Hampshire meeting houses
without the touch of hand. There
are electric light lines in and around
the sheds, where the saws buzz and
the WOrkmen bustIe from before
dawn until after sunset, great dry
ing rooms where thousands of thin
blanks are stacked and kept for
weeks in an artificial temperature
that seasons them better than months
of summing, brick furnaces for con-
suming sawdust, and fans that truck |
up the shavings from the planers |
and carry them into storehouses
where they are baIed for export to
the coast.
Another important industry at
Davis Is tanning, for hemlock and
oak are plentiful. and it is found
profitable to import hides from Chi
cago and treat them here. The tan
pits are always full. and you can 60
in among them at any time and see
the aprOned workmen scraping the
flesh from the skins on queer tables
like haIf.barrels set on end at an
angle, stirring them about with poles
in watts Of frothing lime-water and
brown liquor, burying them under
floors covered with crushed bark,
pressing out the finished leather be-
tween enormous brass rollers, wash
ing the hair for delivery to plaSterers
and saving the grease for use in
oleomargarine.
There is timber here to make every
article that man has learned to fash
ion from a tree-ship masts. freight
cars, dining room tables, boats,
office chairs, buggies aud policemen's
clubs. Railroad ties and mine props
cost nothing. At a small station
down the valley you see a building
lined with narrow strips of at least
fifty woods, all showing the natula
grain and some of them beautifully
marked. A young man at Morgan
town has cane inlaid with speci-
mems of 100 native woods, which he
means to send to the Worlds Fair,
and there are probably many varie.
ties he has overlooked. The valley
of the Black Fork does not deserve
, the praises Iavished on Its fertility.
, A few scattered haystacks, with for
lorn cattle rubbing their wet sides
against them, represent the limit OI
, its agricultural possibilities. But il
is backed and overhung by broad
strips of trees-some of then three
, feet in diameter-contafning spruce
that Is softer and more successfully
worked than any grown in New
England, hemlock and oak, whose
: bark would help enrich a thousand
Fayerweathers, and pine. heart that
would keep the pulp mills at Pied
mont and Cumberland in steady
business for years.
Davis looks now as Denver is said
, to have looked in the early days
with the difference that there is a lit.
, tie scrub in the forests. 1t has passed
through no exciting periods of blood.
$ shed and vigilance committees. The
jury empanelled to try its onlv mur.
derer decided his fate with pack o
:, cards, and the jack of spades cleared
, him. There are many Poles among
the lumbermen, docile workers who
- never strike nor dISobey. though
they can't all understand each Other
. i'm their own language. The camp.
=, are enlived by the picturesque cos
|, tunes numbering seems to have
:. evoIved-red nightcaps with blue
border, blanket, of all cOlOrs of the
! rain bow, and thick red stockings
= All through this region the scenery
is wildly romantic. The big game
-, has retreated from the settlement
: though after 1t was founded the deel
continued to visit crossing near the
!, edge of the town until they learned
that it meant certain death. Wild
turkeys are killed by the engines or
the track. which they visit to pick
up the grain that Sits from the cars
and we'll to-do settlers show you
bearskin rugs and chair-cOvers which
;, they try to make you believe are
| re hns alysI -
:. prowess. But they are better lum
9 bermen than story tellers.-E. L., ir
New York Tribune.
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