The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-13
ABOUT IRE NO()DNEN
How They Spend Life in the
Far North.
THEY HAVE GOOD TIMES
No Day Too Cold or Stormy
for Their Work.

II + sa far call from the Fashionable
stained roof of your own suburban resi-
dence TO the great cedar swamps of New
Brunswick. The hernit-thrush. rockinl
from the top branch Of q stately cedal
as he floods the heart OF the forest with
his evensong. is supremely ignorant Of
the sparrow, shaking and twittering his
towsled feathers from the gable over
your own head. Yet in a few month:
the great cedar viii no longer rock its
forest children 10 sleep, but viii cover
the roofs Of man, even as your Own shin
giles, afew years since grew stanch and
straight in what seemed an inaccessible
forest-swamp.
AS in all great industries. only the toll
Of many hands and brains can bring
about this transformation. The lumber
man is in this case the prime mover,
and cedar logs are what the wants most.
/ These can be obtained only from the
government lands. as practically all the
great lumber districts Of Central
and Northern New Brunswick is held by
the Provincial government and leased by
/ special licenses, which expire in the year
1919.
Before the land is applied for. however.
1 the lumberman sends his cruiser into
i the woods. This cruiser is a man of
+ experience and almost endless endurance.
He must have insight, good judgment.
and little Of that peculiar imaginative
faculty that Peter Ibbetson calls dream
ing true" For no man can tramp fifty
square miles and actually count every
stick of standing timber. Yet the cruiser
must know this. and he must notice also
If the timber stands upon a slope. If that
slope makes toward a stream. and if
that stream flows into river that will
float the logs to the mill for which he
is cruising. When he finds weh-wooded
land that fulflls these conditions he must
be able 10 estimate the quantity and
value OF the standing timber. for from
his report the umbermen decide what
lands they want and how much they can
afford 10 bid for them. Then he applies
for the land and his application is pub
lished in the official gazette until the
day comes appointed by the government
for the land sale at Fredericton. II there
is no one to bid against him the lumber
man then buys for an upset or nominal
price OF eight dollars per square mile.
for the remaining years until 1919. when
the lease may be renewed If there are no
new applicants for the land.
All this is before an axe has struck the
tree. In September the choppers are
sent to the woods. From then until the
heavy SHOWS come in December they
chop and yard '-pile-their cut. From
these yards" the teams haul TO the
landing by the river. The last is called
the hauling OF" rand is not begun IN
til the chopping is over. The logs when
felled by an axe are ''yarded" by a horse
one horse hauling the cut OF five men.
As the lumber camps are often from for
ty to sixty miles from a settlement you
will easily see that the transportation
Of supplies for men and horses is no small
problem. Much Of this is done the prev
iOus winter before the roads break up.
as it Is easier to haul over snow. and
the men are in the woods two or three (
months before the snow comes. These +
supplies that have TO be left in the 4
woods all summer are insured against .
forest fires at a rate Of > per cent
Let us start. then. or. fine January
morning. for a visit to the camps. Bun
die yourself in furs-fu- coat. fur cap.
fur mits-turn UP your collar so that
only your eyes with their frosty lashes
can be seen and so we are of for a
twenty-mile drive into the wilderness.
Seven miles out and We pass the last
house. miserable looking hut with a
bunch OF yelping dogs AZ the door. and
small towsled heads at every pane Of
the dirty window. No more trOtting now.
No more Slowing and humping over the
road where each passing sleigh cuts OF
2 little more than beaten track. leaving
a wider swath for your own sleigh 70
twist and turn IL as the little horse trots
along over the hardened footway in the
middle, Now we come 70 the step-hole
road. and must 20 carefully. for a false
step here viii plunge the horse up 20
The shafts in snow. and Ne IS not likely
1t such a time 70 consider his attach
nents-
You are expecting worse roads. 7 dare
say a sudden dip down a deep bank
hat sends the sleigh almost over the
,orse-s back prepares you for most q
he things bat what really occurs For
-ou have come. ~ right angles upon
cad smooth and level as a floor. where
no sleighs might run abreast with no
roubie ~ al. This IS TIE logging road.
III through the virgin forest f0- the
lrst moving of the newly cut cedar
og on It's Ions Journey toward the city
z men.
lie pavement between dark frs loaded
silver thaw. We must hurry. Tor. Per q
eel As re rad Is there IS danger Turk 2
1E II By chance Ne should meet the :
cams on their midday turns coming {
own the slope. We should be but kin #
Ing wood ard food tor thought before 8
he great double sie5s With logs piled :
be width q the road and nearly the ?
eight q the trees coui5 Dc checked 2
their sou< slide ~ before we could
IN away Yet. the danger seems
ieht on Surely 2 prz 1cess 7Tith fsshinr
lt-ridsrs uIkwAlte s-ee5s. silver har-
IS and ernine robes IS TIE only o.
,-uction AT all Possible q this stately
As We approach ;hs camp the cook
ops RS head cut cf a lower entrance =
the cookhouse ard scuttles away Ike
frightened rabbit He 3 only after q
lat clean apron Nine Doucstte rs god
i,s. sent up T. him last week along
ith last months Courier ara bottle e
1finard's uuaurnt
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