The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-02-25
bingham

Pond, were in town last week visiting
friends.
Mark savage and his son, Roy. return
ed from Boston. on Thursday.
L. l.. Moore and wife nave returned
from ; Jon, where they have been for
some time.
Mrs. BetseY Hilton is now stopping
with her son, Frank Hilton.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster smith, who went
to Mass. some weeks ago, are expected
home soon.
Miss Nellie Webster aud her sister,
from Carratunk, were in toWE, Friday.
Miss Eva Nottage, who has been
home on vacation, is again at work for
Mrs. Curren Smith.
George Smith one of the scleetmen of
Bingham. is said to be very sick with
pneumonia.
Fred Coolidge of Scion. was in town
on business. recently.
They have commenced saving Wash
burns logs at the river.
Rev. J. c. Gregory aud Selden Cleye-
land, who have both been sick were out
for ride Saturday.
J. }. Lander IS again at home after his
Boston trip.
Guy Baker formerly of this place,
who has been in the clothing business
for some years with Chas Coleman at
Jackman, has sold out his interest in the
business TO Mr.. Coleman.
Friday, as a train of eight cars loaded
with pulp was about to leave this sta
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curve in the side track. Some time Was
spent in vain attempt to get the ear
back upon the track, finally it was found
necessary to unload the car. The train
WAS delayed three hours. Meantime the
out going passenger train could get only
the engine aud tender by the projecting
ends of the pulp wood. The passengers
were transferred To a ear from the sheds
below the accident, aud the train went
on.
The smart old gentleman doing chores
for Philandcr Morris. is uncle William
Jackson, not William johnson az stated
last week.
Norris Bray's little girl has quite "A
bad sore on her leg caused by scald.
Log buyers are plenty. They are of
the river bank.
From Bingham to Briggs landing our
horses skipped over, the smooth, hard
road and across the river. We then took
the tote road. which was neither hard
nor smooth. Who are We, and where
are we going; Oh well. there is Lea
Hussey, photographer; VIII Goodrich,
grocer; y. &. Dinsmore, shoemaker, and
Forest Colby, lumberman, by whose
kind invitation we are to visit the Colby,
Preble and Sanhorn lumber camps ON
Pierce Pond. The first camp WAS reach
ed AT eleven o'clock a. NJ. one half III le
from the landing at Lindsey Cove. Il
beautiful place in summer on the vest
store OF Pierce pond. The cove itself
contains seventy-five acres aud will be
nearly covered with lumber. In the
spring a strong boom will be stretched
across the mouth OF the cove to hold the
logs until RATED to the dam, three miles
below. The water from this pond falls
nineteen hundred and siXty-three feet
in distance of four miles, the most
rapid stream in New England, down
which lumber is driven. VIII Robinson
is boss of the camp at this place, and has
thirty-two men and sixteen horses en-
ployed. Work was commenced the first
of November and has been going on
steadily ever since. Lumber has been
taken from places so steep, that one
horse when ascending, slipped, and ftll-
ing backward was killed. After fine
dinner, we started on foot to visit the
other two camps. For two miles the
wagon sled road was nearly level aud
very good, the loads slipping along cas-
lily. The last mile the road leads up the
steep side of the mountain to a little
pond at the top, and across the pond to
Chas. Spaulding's camp, our stopping
place for the night. Instead of the low,
iIl-ventilated dark camps with the smoke
from open fires fin1ing its way through
a hole in thrIroOf, the camps of Colby,
Preble and Sanborn are high. light and
well furnished The cooking and dining
room is a separate camp about ten feet
from the sleeping camp, the space be
tween being rooted over and called the
''di lgle" or store room. Weymou h
Collins and wife are cooking At this
camp, and they deserve their reputation
As good cooks. Everything in and about
the camps is las neat as wax Mrs.
Collins came into camp the fifth If No
NttBbtl dUti HAS lNll sttU one VI ItI StA
since that time. The cooks days are
all long ones, from four o'clock in the
morning till nine at night. This eompa-
NY believes that men cannot WORK when
poorly fed. In order to get good work
the men must have plenty OF good whole
some food and a comfortable camp
Bill of fare for one day: Breakfast
pork and beans, biscuit, brown bread,
apple sauce, butter, doughnuts, cookies,
mince pie. Dinner, pork, beans, warm
biscuit, brown bread, sauce. butter,
molasses, gingerbread, cookies, and pud-
ding. Supper, fried pork, potatoes,
boiled Goldfish, white gravy, warm bis
cult, butter, molasses, sugar cake, dark
cake, apple sauce and cookies. Ere
quently fresh or corned beef takes the
place of Goldfish and fried pork. After
the first SHOWS came, the cook noticed
cat tracks outside the camp, he set
trap aud caught large house cat that
was very wild. After two weeks in a
cage, the cat became tame enough 10 be
set free in the camp. Where he came
from no one knows. but it is quite com
mon for cats to come around camps in
winter Mr.. Spsulding's crew have
yarded million feet of spruce from less
than one hundred acres. The road from
this camp falls, in places, five hundred
or more feet to the mile. The timber is
loaded from the yards, about thousand
feet TO span of horses, under one rum
ner is placed heavy chain for a bride,
and coarse meadow hay Is strewn along
the other side of the road; thus impeded