St. Landry democrat., 1891-02-28
A HaYseed's' Adventure in a Saw
Mill,

He came in from the West on the South
ern Pacific, and brought with him 9 car
load of fine horses. He intended, he said
to an AMERICAN reporter, to stop in Hous
ton, but the small pox scare persuaded
him to go farther East, and he thought
| the next best chance was Lake Charles.
He was a farmer and all the way from
| Kansas the horses he had raised himself
on his farm. He wanted to see some of
| the world and couldn't sell his horses at
! home, so he concluded to make q trip
through the South and dispose of his
! stock. He had received copies of THO
AMERICAN, and desired to soc this com
try, and so the plan of bring ing car load
of stock was agreed upon as the best.
He was man of medium build, clothes
good but common. He wore q cap of fur
that hid from view all traces of the ebay
seed; y was intelligent, but many things in
this world he had never seen. Among
these was saw mill of large dimensions.
The AMERICAN reporter was particular to
urge the gentleman to make q visit, while
in the city, to one of the large saw mills,
and suggested the NJ. T. Jones & Co. mill
at the upper part of the lake.
He visited the mill that evening, and,
having no guide, he started in by himself
The first place he entered was the boiler
room, where the fireman lazily fed Eve
huge boilers with saw dust. This was a
new idea, feeding set of boilers on saw
dust to make steam. Why wouldn't ebay
seed" do just as well?
From the boiler room he assembled q
fight of stairs to the engineer, and stood
beside him for few moments watching
the easy and graceful movement of four
hundred horse power Corliss engine. A
huge affair this. ''If you will 20 another
floor higher" said the engineer, "you will
see what this mighty engine is doing"
Up he went into the saw fler's depart
ment The attraction Of the machinery,
all out before him from this stand point,
was simply grand. To his right the huge
logs pulled themselves out of the lake. On
his front the sawyer stood, and just be-
yond set of men on the carriage. which
seemed to pass through the air with swift
ness akin to that of cannon ball, and
each stroke added g plank to be run of,
edged and squared up and passed through
the dry kiln and planer.
AS the farmer stood watching the pass
age of the logs to and fro he caught the
motion himsa1f and hacame an pickarv ba
thought to seat himself near by to rest his
giddy head. Just as he was in the act of
sitting down a gentleman remarked:
"Watch out this is butting saw" He
made leap for liberty. "Wstch out !"
He passed over the gang edgers, "Watch
OUT" and o$her contrivances, "Watch
OUT" and made lis escape between the,
"Watch out" dolleys laden with lumber
going along the plank walks toward the
Southern Pacific track.
The reporter is in the habit of doing
such things, so he followed, in his imag-
nation, the "hayseed" back to his horses
"Pard,' said he, you'd better 60 down
and take look at that Jones mill in the
morning before we leave. | thought I'd
seen and read about saw mills, but found
out didn't know anything about them
This Jones mill must be 'breech- loader
The logs come up out of the lake like
cartridges into gun, and the sawyer pulls
a trigger, and the plank rains out at the
other end of the mill. And I'll tell you
another thing. When you are going
through the concern you don't have to sit
down on every box you see, or you may
come out minus coat tail "-AmerScan.