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Canadian Lumber Companies Connect
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Canadian Lumber Companies Connect
Offices, Camps and bawmlils.
Throughout the forests. from the st.
Johns to Vancouver, lumber camps be-
longing to the same interests are con.
nected by telephone. the lines running
thence 10 the saw mills or wood pulp
works at frontier towns, from which
communication can be held even to the
metropolis.
II was formerly the custom OF each
lumber interest 10 maintain force OF
couriers, like the yoyagers OF the Hud-
son Bay Company. and these hardy
men, with knapsack, would travel
twenty-five miles day through the
wilderness, over rough forest paths.
Now the mill calls each camp in
turn, at stated hours and receives re-
ports and gives instructions 10 the
foreman and II Ii not necessary to
dwell on the commercial advantages
Of maintaining such close touch be-
tween headquarters and outposts In
any enterprise. Letters are read 10
men showed In the forest fifty or a
hundred miles away and answers die
tated by the lumbermen TO a stenog-
rapher. who transcribes them in tho
Office and then malls them TO their
homes.
The relative contentment among tho
men which is established by this fire.
quent communication is highly advan-
tageous 20 the working force. and
therefore 10 the employers.
The applications of the telephone to
the operations OF logging are alike
novel and useful. The lines are run
upon forest trees along the banks OF
rivers. and telephones which are placed
In sheltering boxes are attached to
trees and connected with the line.
The bette nolr OF logging Is the col
lecting of the logs together at some
narrow place In turbulent stream and
piling upon each other Ia "jam" to
which contributions are made by every
log floating down the river TO this spot.
The formation or a Jam results from
some obstacle and generally occurs
without warning. and II requires great
labor. fraught with peril. 10 remove
the logs from their CONSTRUCTED posi-
ton. II Is frequently necessary TO use
dynamite, and much lumber Is destroy
ed by such explosions.
With the use OF the telephone warn
ing of the initial formation OF a jam
can be given by one of the men pa
trolling the banks. who telephones to
the men up the river to stop the fur
ther tiow OF logs at calm places termed
trips" and II Is an easy matter to
break the small jam. for which fur
ther assistance can be had by sum-
mouing men from points lower down
the stream.
As soon as the small jam Is removed
the men above are told through the
telephone TO release the logs held at
the trip and the stream OF logs ls re-
sumed.
Under former conditions a larger
number of men were employed, and
when jam was begun II was neces-
sary 20 send messengers from one to
three miles through the forest In va
rious directions to direct the gangs to
stop the flow OF logs and others to
summon help who are down the
stream to come up and break the jam,
which had meanwhile time TO ampIi-
fy. and then. after the jam had been
broken, second messengers must be
sent up the stream to release the logs
at the "trip"
BY the promptness of telephone
the rate OF sending
logs down the stream Is increased by
the avoidance Of delays.
Beyond this the use Of the telephone
renders log-driving feasible on the
smaller rapid. rough streams, where It
was formerly out of the question:
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