The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-03-23
A Tale Of the Woods.

The G. T. Mills Machinery Co. sells
a good many things to the camps and
mills besides skid GREASE, goose grease,
oil and mill sites, but it is enough to
mention that the company is proud
of the fact that in it rests the agency
for the famous produt of the Climax
peoples plant at Cory, Pa. No, honey
this is not a tobacco advertisement,
and the product mentioned is not ex-
actly sold by the plug. 1t is sold by
the locomotive, geared or double gear
ed, thirty tons at clip, or more if the
purchaser desires. Several of these
locomotives have been sold to the lead
ing camps of this Northern Pacific
coast and several more wide awake,
progressive loggers are figuring on
coming into line. Since the Simpson
Logging Co. bought two OF them the
other loggers have had chance to see
just what the engines can do and now
it is not matter of sending out sales
men to explain the virtues of the en-
CINE it is question of when the fac
tory can turn out the orders already
booked. During one week last month
the factory at Cory, Pa, booked seven
orders and this at a time when sixteen
locomotives being built to order are
under course of construction in the
shops.
The G. T. Mills Machinery Co. re-
Gently sold 80 ton locomotive to the
Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Co.
of Chemainus, B. c., the locomotive
to he an exact duplicate of the ones
sold to the Simpson Logging Co, and
to the Bratnober- Waite Lumber Co.
Manager Palmer, of the Victoria COM
pany, did not buy with his eyes shut
he went about the country and saw
just how the different kinds of engines
performed their work. Ii the stories
of what he tells of the geared engine
are true, no other engines on earth
has any business showing its wheels
in this neck Of the woods. When
Mr.. Palmer went down to Simpson
camp in Mason county to look at
one of the engines, he was given a
practical demonstration Of just what
the machine would do. On IL per
cent. grade an engine was pulling a
trail of logs, the trail consisting of six
logs. The first log was 80 feet long
and ~ inches at the top: the second
log was 100 feet long, smaller diameter
but very crooked, the remainder of the
trail consisted OF four sc foot logs of
ordinary diameter. When the engine
started up it pulled the trail IN two
between the first and second logs and
when some distance before it could be
stopped. The engine then pushed
that g foot log back to the trail, where
more secure connection was made and
a start again effected. While under
way the crooked 100-foot log rolled
out from between the rails, pulling
with it the four smaller logs of the
trail and in few seconds the head
trailer, the big log, also left the track.
For time there was the devil to pay.
The trail of logs buried themselves in
a trench of earth torn up as they were
yanked along, while the ties behind
the engine were pushed out of place
and in one or two instances tied in
bow knots. But the engine went
right ahead and the engineer did not
know anything had happened until be
heard "A sharp report, and looked back
saw that the trail had collided with a
standing tree ten inches in diameter,
the tree being snapped in two as if it
were pipestem. The engine stopped
and workmen repaired the track. At
least this is the story Mr.. Mills says
Mr. Palmer tells. There remains not
the sli hiest doubt but that the Incl
den, really occurred and that it was
on IL per cent. grade. but whether
the engine was pulling down hill OF
going up has not been inquired into,
At any rate. Mr. Palmer was SO inn
pressed with what he saw the locomo-
tive accompli sh that III writing the
&. T. Mills Machinery Co. said: ~
feel satisfied after seeing the Simpson
engine working that the Climax is the
coming logging locomotive. and no.
thing you can say in its behalf could
better my idea of what the Locomotive
will do. 1t is The only kind l would
have"-The Pacific Lumber Trade