The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-26

/ bending 50 adaptably 10 the hands and
| motions OF the men manipulating that
I IL did not seem possible so mobile an
1 instrument could cut the rough pine
I In moment the song changed timbre.
| Without a word the men Strengthened
their backs. Tom firted along the
/ blade a thin stream of kerosene
oil from a bottle in his hip pocket.
and the sawyers again bent TO their
work. swaying back and forth rhyth-
mically. their muscles ripping under
/ the texture OF their woolens like those
OF a panther under its skin. The outer
/ edge OF the saw blade disappeared.
/ Better wedge her, Tom" advised
Hank.
They paused, while, with a heavy
sledge, Tom drove a triangle of steel
I into the crack made by the saving.
/ This prevented the weight OF the tree
/ from pinching the saw. Then the
rhythmical z-Z-z! z-Z-z! again took up
/ It's song.
/ When the trunk was nearly severed
/ Tom drove another and thicker wedge.
! Timber" hallooed Hank in a long
/ drawn melodious call that melted
/ through the woods into the distance.
The swamDers ceased work and with
drew 10 safety.
I GlaIhs Nd&A@Q NAAG NtEG.
Hank eoolly unlocked his saw han
die and Tom drew the blade through
and out the other side.
The tree shlvered, then leant ever so
slightly from the perpendicular. then
fell. at first gently. afterwards with
crescendo rush, tearing through the
branches of other trees, and at last
hitting with a tremendous crash and
bang which filled the air with a fog
OF small twigs. needles and the powder
of snow.
Then the swampers, who have by
now finished the travoy road, trimmed
the PROSTATE trunk clear OF all pro-
tuberances. II required fairly skillful
AK work. The branches had 10 be
shaved close and clear. and at the same
time the trunk must not be gashed.
And often a man was forced to WELD
his instrument from constrained pa
sition.
The chopped branches and limbs had
now 10 be dragged clear and piled.
While this was being finished, Tom and
Hank marked OF and sawed the log
lengths. paying due attention TO the
necessity of avoiding knots. forks and
rotten places. Thus some OF the logs
were eighteen, some sixteen, or four
teen, and some only twelve feet In
length.
Next appeared the teamsters with
their little wooden sledges, their steel
chains and their tongs. They had been
helping the skidders TO place the par
allel and level beams, or skids, on which
the logs were TO be piled by the side
Of the road. The tree which Tom aud
Hank had just felled lay up a gentle
slope from the new travOy road, so
little Fabian Laveque, the teamster,
clamped the bite OF his tOngs to the
end of the largest. or butt. log.
'Allez. MollY!" he cried.
A horse, huge. elephantine. her head
down. nose close to her chest, intelll-
gently spying her steps, moved. The
log had rolled over, slid three feet and
menaced a stump.
Molly stepped twice directly sidewise,
planted her fore foot on a root she had
seen and pulled sharply. The end OF
. the log slid around the stump.
, "AneZi" commanded Laveque.
And Molly started gingerly down the
hill She pulled the timber, heavy as
an iron safe, here and there through
the brush. missing no steps, making no
! false moves. backing, and finally get
ting out OF the way of an unexpected
/ roll with the ease and intelligence OF
/ Laveque himself. In five minutes the
: burden lay by the travoy road. In two
minutes more one end Of IL had been
= rolled on the little fat wooden sledge
; and. the other end dragging, it was
winding majestically down through the
r. ancient forest.
When Molly and Fabian had travoyed
the log to the skidway, they drew II
% with a bump across the two parallel
p sklds and left IL there to be rolled 10
the top OF the pile.
Then Mike McGOvern and Bob STRAIT
! ton and Jim Gladys took charge Of It,
Mike and Bob we're running the can't
hooks. while Jim stood on top of the
. great pile OF logs already decked. A
: slender pliable steel chain, like a
gray snake. ran over the top of the
, pile and disappeared through a pulley
I 20 an invisible horse-Jenny. the mate
OF Molly. Jim threw the end OF this
-, chain down. Bob passed IL over and
, under the log and returned II TO jim
, who reached down after II with the
> hook OF his implement. Thus the stieh
4 Of timber rested in a long loop. one END
: Of which led 10 the invisible horse. and
= the other Jim made fast to the top o.
: the pile He did so by jamming int
5 another log the steel swamp-hook will
= which the chain was armed. When al
e was made fast the horse started.
L shes a bumper!" said Bob. 'Looi
q out Nike"
r The log slid TO the foot OF the two pa
I raiiei poles laid slanting up the face o
i the pile Then II trembled on the as
o cent. But one end stuck for an IN
c slant and at once the log took on ;
r dangerous slant Quick as light Bol
and Mike sprang forward. gripped tn
d hooks OF the cant-hOoks. Ike grea
y thumbs and forefngers, and, while on
r held with all his power, the other CAV
q a sharp twist upward. The log straight
e ened II was a master feat or power
and the knack of applying strength
y justly.
e Der lowered for a second.
n zone mOre," sang out Jim to tn
u driver He poised. stepped lightly u
Dc and over and avoided by the safe hair
breadth being crushed when the 10
= rolled But il did not lie quite straigh
!, or even. So Mike cut a short THO
- block. and all three stirred the heav
= timber sufficiently TO admit Of the bil
la let's insertion.
: Then the chain was thrown down fc
sr another.
Jenny. harnessed only 10 a shor
L straight bar with hook IN IL, leahe
m 10 her collar and dug her hoofs at IN
- word OF command. The driver. close
r her tail. held fast the slender 9Te'
of chain by an ingenious hitch about n
as ever-useful swamp hook. When Ji
he shouted whoa" from the top OF II
Is skidway. the driver did not trouble
Is stop the horse-he merely let go II
~ hook SO the power was shut OF SUE
ri denly. as is meet and proper in sue
CT tcklish business. He turned and wake
back. and Jenny. like a dog. without q
". necessity Of command. followed him
he slow patience.
ed Now came Dyer. the scsler. rapid