The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-26
A Somerset LnmI,rrrnan.

Hiram Moore IL San btve sold The
balance OF heir cut of log- Of tie past
winter, tile saw logs 10 Joshua Snow q
Son of Gardner, and the pulp logs Ia
Cnshnoc Pup AMI Paper Company o.
Augusta. A p0rlIOn of their Gu WIS
hauled By the lhousar and another ptrt
WAS sold Oh contract III The fall
This lunbering firm cut and hauled
aud hired cut aud hauled, about G,000, 600
feet of logs the past season. They em
ployed 100 men aud used their 81 horses
hauling The lumber from the stump to
yard aud from yard 10 landing, but quite
fraction of he six millions they hired
cut and hauled by the thousand. Ia
some former years they employed 125
men and used IA corresponding number
of teams.
Hon. Hiram Moore. the senior MEM
Der of the ii ID. has been employed in
the lumber business since boy hood and
says it is about time TOR him To retire
from the arduous labors incident To
numbering operations. He has been II =
terested as an operator for about 20
years. He was for many years interes' :
ed In operations with the late Hon. o mar
Clark of Caratunk In recent years his
son, Albert f. Moore, has been intereste
with him but now he has Withdraw n
from numbering and embarked 10 mer-
camille business in Madison, 50 that Mr..
Moore Is again left alone 10 the business
and says he hesitates about starting in
again for another campaign at his time
OF life. He has the impression, he says,
l,.,N . ~. g.. H..
and leave the field TO younger meu.
Mr.. Moore knows spruce Logging on
the Kennebec from A to Z. He knows
how TO explore the site for winter
operations, how aud where to locate and
build his camps, how and where to lay
out his main roads and landings, how TO
buy horses aud hitch up the teams, how
to look up the lumber and spot out the
branch roads, how TT keep things up
taut with his men and teams doing their
level best and how to sell his lumber to
advantage. Furthermore, II case comes
to hand he can take the place OF a
"boss," plan the work to advantage and
increase the amount of lumber put on to
landings.
One instance is related where one of
Mr., Moore's "bOsses" WAS taken sick
anu udu 10 20 Out ID - j lie STATES tn
recuperate. Mr.. Moore took his place
and within three weeks increased the cut
of logs put on to the yards more than
90 per cent over The weekly cut before
he took command.
Hon. Hiram Moore is n typical all
around lumbeIman, tall. long-,imbed,
quiet, pretending, with keen black
eyes, low pleasantly modulated voice.
He knows men and teams and spruce
logs and timber lands and lumber
finances 18th the hest of them.
His home is near Madison Center on
the line of The SumeI set Traction Com.
pany about miles from Skowhegan
village aid from Madison village, IA
fine location aid one of the hest farms
10 Somerset with broad level fields, a
mammoth orchard and spacious, commo-
dious, neatly finished, painted and well
kept farm buildings.
He has the con fihence and esteem of n
very vide circle nf people, including
thousands whom he has employe ed, and
all wish he may for many years el joy
the comfort of the competence he has
accumulated by long and honorable
business career, in one Of the most ar
duous and Pxdcting of Names leading
employments.