The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-12-08
An Expert Ox-Teamster and
Veteran Lumberman.


Uncle VIM. B. Moore of Bingham,
now 10 his SD year has driven one OK
team in kennebec woods 81 winters
hauling timber from 30 different towns.
He has probably hauled more pine logs
than any man that has ever driven a
team on the kennebee He has won.
derful memory about things way back.
He says he can remember the first mark
of logs that was ever run down the river.
They were marked B X B they were
hauled by Maj. Brown & Baker, landed
on Durgin's intervale above the Forks.
He says: II think it was the winters
of 1929 he sold the logs to Richard
Clay and Charles McCauslin of Gardiner,
for the small SUN of 81 90 per thousand,
so Mr.. Clay told me himself, he said
they were perfect, no rot, no knot.
Those logs were cut on lower Cold
stream tract. commenced to cut them
near John Durgin's barn, which barn the
Mai. built years before, then worked
up the Little Baker Mill brook. | often
notice as pass some of the old stumps
that were cot so long ago. The next
lumberman to Maj. Baker was Maj.
Joseph Webb and Joel Billings of Bloom
field then. but Skowhegan now. Then
came A. & z. Coburn, Cony and Samuel
Weston, Samuel Parker, Skowhegan !;
VIM. Parker, Aaron Parker, Col. Daniel
Snow, Bloomfield; Capt. Ruel Weston,
Skowhegan Maxcy Webb, Bloomfield
George w. King, Skowhegan; Capt. Asa
Steward, John Steward, Col. Pitts. Sam
Pollard, Capt. Amos Toby. Deacon
Cleveland, Bloomfield; James Cleveland,
Ben and Nahum Steward, Capt. Seth
and Daniel Wyman, VIM. Snow, John
X. Buzzel, John Turner, Skowhegan !;
Amsziah Murray, Nathan and Benz
Weston, M Olson; Maj. Tom and Brad
Dinsmore, Pease and Manter, Arson !;
Isaac Mckinney, Capt. Eben :Snow,
Thomas French, Madison; VIM. G.
Heselton, Skowhegan; Hiram Moore,
CYRUS Moore, Samuel Burns, Madison :;
Horace Gates, Scion; David Rowell,
Madison; Nick and George Smith, Bng-
ham; Warren Buzzell, Madison; Joseph
Clark, Omar Clark, Willie Clark, Jona-
than Sterling, Seth Baker, Nathaniel
Brown, Silas Cavanaugh, Livingston
Webster, Caratunk; Moses Chamberlin,
Hiram and Asel Baker, Joseph Bassett
and S. Turner, Moscow; Robert and
John Burns, Thales Spauldng, Cara
funk; Capt. WIN. Baker, Capt. Nathan
Baker, Sewal and Chandler Baker,
Pickard Goodrich, stephen Parlin, Levi
w. Hanes, Alvin and Asa Goodrich.
jonathan Goodrich. Bingham; Edward
Howes, Concord; Eli IN Chapman, Mos
COW; Cap. John Dlnsmore, Concord !;
Davis has, Moscow; James Baker,
Vim. B. Moore, Lincoln Baker, Bng-
ham; Tilson Baker, Moscow; VIM.
Morris, Bingham; Cyrus and sumner
Wilirgtou, II. Hilton and Joseph Ellis,
Abel Nuftng, Madison; Col. Fowler and
| George Emery, VIM. Conner. Charles
al Jas. Fogg, Henry Egg, Lawrence
and Npwhall, FaiIf'ld; Dudley Moore,
Col. Heath, Watervllle; John Conner,
Capt. Lawrence, Ezra Totmau, Fairfield /;
Orison and George Burrill, Elias and
Chas. MillikeD, Augusta; Joshua and
George Gray, Gardiner; Lawrence
Brothers, So. Gardiner; Smith and john
son, Gardiner; Capt. Mark and Lewis
Dunbar, Fairfield; Thomas Lang, North
Vassalboro; Alonzo Tobey, Norridge-
wock Mark Steward, North Arson ;
Nathan Thompson, Nick DurrilI, Isaac
Adams, Jonathan Stevens, Elan Stevens,
Embden; Jacob Lowell, VIM. Lowell,
Concord Jacob Lowell, Jr.. Moose
River; Sam'l. Gage, Heman Whipple,
Jonah Longley. Frank Davis, VIM.
Clark, Scion; Colby and Preble, George
and Orison Gordon. Bingham; f. X.
Baker and Albert Burke, Moscow; Daniel
Churchill. Amos Churchill, West Forks /;
Cyrus Marble, Jackman; Joseph Hender-
son, Thomas Fletcher, Moscow; Stilman
Burke, Crosby Spaulding, Hannibal
Brown. Edward Webster, Joseph Spauld.
ing, Caratunk; Charles Foster, Richmond ;
Col. David Webster, Fryhurg; Frank /.
Estes, Skowhegan; Capt. John z.
Hunter. Gardiner; Charhs Bray, Julius
b ,ker, Enoch Young, Eben Baker, Bing-
ham Capt. James Stackpole, Norridge-
wock; Gen. Frank Smith, w ,terville ;
Capt. John and Frank Davis, Hallowell.
Uncle VIM. gives the names of the old
surveyors of lumber where he has work.
ed as near as he can remember, viz: Maj.
Joseph Webb, Skowhegan; David
Smiley, North Vassalboro; Capt. Ste.
phen Webber, Gardiner; VIM. Spauld-
ing. Daniel Webb, Hiram Gage, Show
hogan; Mr.. Banks. Waterville; Grin
Low, Waterville; Dennis Moore, No.
Anson; Orrison Burrill, Fairfield; Capt.
James Steward, Gardiner; Isaac Moore,
Skowhegan; Capt. Adams, Robert
WATSON, Anson; Joel Whitney, Bing-
ham Thomas Brown, Caratunk; Albert
Webster, Bingham; Cyrus Fields, Show
hogan; Ambrose Dawes, Madison.
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