Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-04-20
Great Perils
in Breaking
"Landings''
Sure Death to the Men Unable te
Jump Quick Enough.

Pennsylvania woodsmen are now en-
gagged in the most hazardous task OF
their calling-the breaking of Gland
ings.' Great piles of barkless sticks,
seemingly eager to tumble over each
other into the turbulent driving
streams, wait only for the anchor log
to be loosed and the whole lot 90
crunching, rolling, plunging down the
precipituCus bank into the water. And
pity the luckless chap who il so un-
fortunate as not to have leaped quick
enough or far enough to escape the
merciless timbers in their flight
Many poor fellow has gone to his
death between the launching fleet Of
timbers, his body to be found mangle6
and crushed miles down the stream,
where there is a pocket and the logs
have come to a sudden stop in an
eddy, carrying the drivers body to
shore.
Only few day ago, while breaking
a landing on Kettle creek, q driver
named Shoemaker, in attempting to
release his cant-hook from Il log, was
flung as if from a catapult into the
stream amid the whirling sticks, but
by an almost superhumau effort he
managed to fight his way to the top Of
the sticks and was rescued. A brokeB
Handing" acts much as does a flock of
sheep when released from bondaga,
each one seems anxious to outstrip the
other in leaping to freedom.
The seasons cut going into the WI
Transport boom this spring will prob
ably not exceed 50,000,00G feet, the
smallest cut in 25 years. The loss OF
the 5000 logs, rushed into Pine creek
lncf ,,n1 4
Chesapeake bay, meant considerable
loss in profit and labor to the saw mill
men of that city. But the saw mill in
dustry is no longer being reckoned
with to any great extent il Williams
port The city's industries have takeR
on such diversity of character that
whether the saw mills are running oE
idle they cut but small figure in the
local Iabor-employing market. Thir
summer, it is said, viii be the "clean-
up" year for the Emery Lumber com
pany in the Loyalneck region. The
two mills of this company are in the
mouth of Loyalneck creek, down which
the logs float from the hills of Sullivan
county. The Central Lumber company
of Pennsylvania with mills at Laquin
several years ago, acquired big slice
of the remaining timber in SUllivaL
county, while on the other side of the
county @. L. Jones, working nortf
from Eagles Mere toward the 'SooE
region, got hold on fine acreage Of
hemloclI and hardwood, and a sturdF
mill built at the forests edge tranG.
forms the stock into lumber right or
the spot
An extension of the Eagles Mere
narrOwgauge railroad has been pushed
through to the Sours mill, thus giving
easy shipments over the Williamsport
& North Branch and Philadelphia 1
Reading to Philadelphia
Up the river a new chopping ha,
been begun in the Hammerely Fork
region, but these logs will be trans.
ported over the Goodyear railroad, the
Buffalo & Susquehanna, to Cross FOrk.
and Austin. Most Of the $4,000, GOO
feet of logs coming into the Williams
port boom this summer will be out Of
Pine creek, though goodly number
will come from the rivers headwaterB
at Cherry Tree, making the voyage
one of nearly 130 miles to the nilia
Lock Haven Republican.