The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-08-17

saWmllla on the creeks ana fiscfn t"@s
used 20 do business with the logs In
way that seemed TO be amazing. They
used 10 have buzz saws Ia those days
a bout as big around "a the full moon,
and the way that a little Gypsy engine
of three or four horsepower could
make them revolve was wonder. But
they told me here that ] was out OF
date. and that the Allegheny pine
woods were not In IT.
So l went down TO a real iumo Der
mill--a Minneapolis lumber mill Iae
show is worth tho price OF admission
A Minneapolis lumber mill Is place
where they feed forest into one end
and draw frame house out OF tne
other. A Minneapolis lumber mill -
the Kellar of the mechanic art IL
swallows log and vomits wagon
load OF toothpicks. There Is prestiai-
citation for you. The modern lumber
mill is place where the men are ma
chinery and the machinery seems 10
do the thinking Seems isn't really
the word. Ii does think. Or, II you
can prove that 1t doesn't, you can't
make me believe II. / saw IL think.
saw a great big leviathan OF
thing, Jagged, hooked, long,
toothed monster. reach over ana
pick up a log, a log that was nail as
bio as the steel arch bridge, and pat
IL. and caress il, and turn 1t over as
woman would baby, tuck 1t in, and
then-ripl II was all over with MIR.
Lor. II made me think of when the
wolf unmasked himself to Little heu
Riding Hood. He had been good, and
kind, and loving, and all that you
know. but finally he showed his cruel
teeth That's the way this human
monster, this machine that thought,
did with the log; the poor log that IL
had pretended to be so fond OF, and
had coddled and made love TO.
Down in this mill where was there
were three saws running. This isn't
technical, and l don't know for sure
what they call them, but one was a
buzz saw-I know buzz saw when 4
see it-and another was saw like
leather belt, piece of leather betting,
| mean. 1t must have been twenty-five
or thirty feet long, and it ran over a
big wheel that went around a million
times second. Four or i've feet OF
the saw came down vertically, just at
the edge of little railroad about hfty
or sixty feet long inside the mill.
There was a flat car on the railroad
and a big piston rod was its motive
mower. The ear was fastened to the
rod. Ruth was half as surely tangled
mn. "Whither thou goest?" Well,
when the rod went you may be sure
the car went, right away. A man
pulled a string and the rod did tho
rest
II was on this car that the thing witt
: the VOLTS teeth dumped the logs, one
bv one. When they were in position
ali tucked in and feeling pretty com
, Portable, / thank you, all at once tina
string was pulled, and In about sec
ond the poor, unsuspecting log had IT
nose up against that leather belt saw
and was being sliced and trimmed int
a stick of square timber. In abou
two minutes il had lost all its self-re
spect. IL was nude, shamefaced, pitia
= BILE.
Then some one pulled another strin
or touched button, l do not kno'
. which, and what was left of the 10
!. was ANONYMOUSLY thrown overheard
!, IL fell upon moving sidewalk, som'
thing like that thing they had dow
by the steamer pier at the worlds TAI
"a and the sidewalk carried 1t OH. mrs
! south, then east think this sidewal
:, thought, too II seemed to- 1t Oh
. Just the right thing at the right tim
. IL never made anything that looked
!, me like mistake. 1t took this b
. timber and ran 1t over TO the middle
!. the mill and laid IL on another sid
- walk that was at rest The brother
!. the moving sidewalk was very busy
the other side of the mill taking ca
4. of the tim bers the buzz saw was tur
~ ing out, turning them into the san
center. Every few minutes six
eight squared timbers would be pill
- M on the sidewalk that was at res
:. Then some one pulled another strin
The sidewalk that was at rest got
"a move on itself; not very fast, butabo
"A as fast as fat man with one hnndr
n aud sixty dollars in his pocket won
nd walk after taking dinner at the ives
Down the pike little way was
In cider press, or something. Maybe
ed wasn't cider press, for ] am not
re mechanical expert, but IL looked II
by IL. II was about as big as ton of hi
ne and inside Of II twenty-four saws we
IN Going up and down, not around, I
nd straight up and down, like a W
re- writer girls jaws when she che
,es gum and thinks she Is thinking, i
sidewalk In the middle of the N
lid walked right into the mouths of th
II twenty-four devils that were doing I
MS vertical dance.
her And II was all of. You have 50
possibly colored gentleman, an
not tache Of your favorite free luI
in counter, cut up cheese, haven't "
I'M Well, bis work was hard compared
! that of the cider mill. IL seemed
md have positive relish for timber
on went through that stack OF lumbe
our about half carload-like ira
A. h.,I-nuf. ouI when.