Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-28
THE SAWMill BU8lNESS.
Interesting Things Learned by n
Female Reporter.

Interesting Things Learned By n
Female Reporter.
Flora Moon in women's Tacoma News.
Naturally 1 visited the big mills
first. At the st. Paul and Tacoma
Lumber Company's mill l found
everything going to beat all. Capt.
Everett Griggs, the Superintendent,
told me that the best way to see how
lumber was manufactured would be
to follow log to the saw, then see
board cut and follow it until it was
on the cars. Well, l waited until /
saw log coming up on the back
porch and pulled on to what they
called a deck, but which in reality was
the floor. A man, with the awfullest
dirty hands, yanked o piece of iron,
and great black iron fixing came up
through the floor and hit the log
pop that knocked it clear across the
mill, then it popped back out OF sight.
I asked Swede what he called it, and
he said "a steam niger" didn't say
anything. but 1 felt like asking the
Swede if ne saw anything green about
me. / am sure the men had been
posted about me coming, and just lied
To me from one end OF the mill to the
other. They spoke about dogs" and
whole lot OF things 1 know are not
in any sawmill. Well, they got that
log onto some kind of q machine and
drove something into it that looked
like picks, then man pulled another
piece of iron and away went that log
and buzz-the big saw took it. Well,
it wasn't a minute before they sawed
off great big board with bark on one
side. 1 grabbed my skirts and took
after it. They run it along on rollers
so fast could hardly keep up with it.
/ ran nearly the whole length of the
mill to catch it. just as l caught it,
two men pulled it against a round
saw, and when 1 asked them where
that board would go next they smiled
and said it wasn't a board, but only a
slab, and good for nothing but fire.
wood.
A went around to what they called
the pond. 1t was full of logs. 1 asked
a man how much lumber they got
out OF log. He said sometimes they
got twenty four or twenty-five feet.
Then I asked him what they did when
they came to log with a hole in it.
He said they sawed it up until they
came to the hole, then run it through
the scantling machine and made lath
OF it.
Then went to H. G. Fosters Office.
When I asked him how old a tree
should be before it should be cut up,
he said he had issued orders to all his
millers not to cut tree under 14S
years old nor over 2l9. He said when
they were cut too young the lumber
was liable to be too fresh, and if cut
too old much of it was cultus. That
seems reasonable enough to any one.
Then asked him what he thought
OF cedar. He said that wherever cedar
is indigenous and grows prodigious
that the vivisection OF them showed a
longevity unparalleled since the days
of the flood. The only trouble he had
with cedar was in the tendency OF the
knotholes to work out and leave the
knots sticking in the board. Many
carpenters object to it for that reason.
Again, a great many Eastern carpen-
ters fail to get their squares right
angled before the spring building be-
gins, and as a result often make bad
Joints and blame our lumber for them
1 then asked him for an opinion as to
what could be done in the sawmills to
do away with the sawdust nuisance
He said it should all be saved and q
company organized to manufacture
dolls. No stuffing is so cheap and
valuable as sawdust for dolls.
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