The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-26

30 that they viii not catch when they are
dragged, or 'snakSd,' or 'slddded,' out.
The men who work ahead Of the sHldding
Grew aud clear out a road over which the
logs are 10 DO taken are the sswRmpers,
whose foreman Il called In the Appalachian
tine 'ouck swamper.s II the ground Is
30 rough that logs must be pushed by hand
over a cliff or steep grade the work is called
-brutting' pronounced 'brootlngD. II
the logs are sent down q steep log slide II
Is called "rawhiding.' When logs arc
hauled out Of a cove into a plateau or nat
10y means Of a drum cable, they ere said
70 be -drummed out.
Timber hauled 10 n stream to be trans
ported by water Is piled In loadlngs along
the bank TO walt for "tide,' or high water.
A pile Of mixed logo is sometimes called q
Jackpot
At the landings the loRs are nearly always
scalSd; that IL, their contents In board
feet are determined. The scaler uses a
rule which, because Of the remarkable
results which some scalers have been known
to get out Of II, ia sometimes referred 70
as 'the rogue's stick
Where logs are foated loose in q stream
tho operation is called driving, and the logs
themselves constitute the drive Logs
are usually RATED nowadays In large
streams.
In making RATS Of hard woods enough
light weight loEs are pinned in with the
heavy woods as yellow poplaTs and bass
wood with oak. 70 make the whole buoyant.
This Is sometimes called sbrailing' 'Dead-
heads or dead men, are logs that have
sunk In the water. SRobbers' are half
submerged logs.
crew Of river drivers always follows
the main drive TO plok up and send on the
laggard logs. This 10 called 'saoldng the
rear Some Of the logs havO got out Of
the main stream. or 'qhokvster.' and are
floating in dead water and "pOkeloGans. OF
bays and pockets In the river, Such logs
constitute the floating rear
The dry rear is made up Of loga which
have lodged against the bank and must be
rolled back into the stream. In case Of
jana, the crew whose duty II Is TO sack
the rear sometimes shut of the water by
means Of a dam and dry pick or roll the
logs loose one by one. Sometimes the
jam Ia loosened by removing the key log
or log which holds the jam.
On the Big Sandy River IN Kentucky
and West Virginia o number Of men are en-
gagged In stealth & timber which comes down
on the winter or early spring tdes. They
20 out on the water IN boats on dark nights
and catch and tow to shore the choicest
and finest poplar aud walnut logs they
can pick up. Then they saw on the owners
brands, from the ends Of the logs, put on
their own marks, make the logs into rats,
and cell them to mills at Catlettsburg, Iron
ton, Ashland, Cincinnati, Louisville. Pa
ducah, or other points along the Ohio,
Tho operation Of saving o6 the branded
ends Of logs is called sdehorning.'
A story is told at Catlsttsburg Of two
men who were dehorning logs one night on
the Big Sandy. They were pulling crosse
cut saw through particularly choice yell
low poplar when one Of them remarked
that he had never set q saw In softer, finer
wood, The other replied that he didn't
like the sound the saw made, for when he
pulled il through the cut it kept saying,
as plain as anything:
AMound-villsi Mound-villel Mound-yillei'
Moundvills L. where the State penitenti-
AIRY Is situated.
woodsmen call tree with a dry, dead
top 'stagheaded.' tree that forks Is.
for some reason, a "sohoolmArm. and a
tree with a swollen butt Is bottle butted.'
A burnt pine stump Is a "dry-h.'
An owner Of tract Of cumberland In the
Appslachiaps refers to IL as his boundary"
In the northern woods, espe cially in Maine,
an area Of forest that can be logged profit
ably from one set Of camps ts Chance
Special kinds Of woods have special
names 'SlGt wood means red cedar
suitable for pencil stock. Fiddle BUTTE
means red spruce intended for sounding
boards for musical instrumsnts. Figured
atfoh kVTTFla and 09YVlW Ina
including curly birch and poplar, are
sought after by agents Of teneerihg oon-
Germs: These men are called Nloekers' or
"prowlers,'
Such a glossary Of terms as the Bureaus
of Forestry. is preparing, however In.
terestng and useful it may prove for special
purposes, can convey little idea Of the |
rscy style Of speech Of men who live In |
the woods. The lunbVrman has feeling
for words, passion for vivid. flashing |
pictures Of objects and events. A timber |
owner was telling Of friend who had |
gone OF on prospecting trip and had |
not appeared for days after the time set |
for hie return, But one day, long after |
he had been giyen, up as dead, hs came
bell on said the timber cruiser.
Another time In the Pacific Coast forests, |
the writer came upon magnificent sugar |
pine, the only tree Of its kind for miles |
around and a landmark even In that region |
up az the top, which lifted itself almost |
into the clouds, remarked
II a man should climb that tree on q |
Christmas morning he could hear ths church |
bells ringing In heaven
A forester stopped one day at lumber |
camp in West Virginia TO inquire his way. |
The sstrawboss, or assistant foreman, |
a lumberman from Minnesota, told him |
the road he must take, but warned him |
that Il was 80 rough wildcat couldn't !
travel tt Seeing the look Of psrplexity |
on bis face. he qualified his statement
thus:
Il reckon he might get over II. but not
the way the wildcat Hikes to go