The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-17

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It was with Mr.. Loose, one of the COM
5pany; Nfr%C G. T.. Stone, the general pas
sengcr agent of the Great Northern Rail-
way, ana Mr.. Walter Parks, a moving
picture photographer well known In this
region. that l was taken into the forest
and shown how these biggest ices now
felled on the continent are gotten out.
We made our way through the woods
on a railroad hauled by n little COM
pound engine not much bigger, than the
dummies used in conl yards, but having
Mi the power Of a great nlogul Weighing
ono hundred tons. This dragged lis up
tho hills more easily than the cog en-
glnes talso ono up Pixies Peak or the
Rigl and then carried us on to the camp
Our way was through these mighty fir
trees which rose from 150 to 400 feet
above US, and which In rome places were
SO thick on the ground IS to almost shut
out the light Some Of the trees were as
big around at Il the foot as y Pullman
palace car stood up on enIS, ard they
maintained this size for q hundred feet
or more to where the first limb began.
Others were more slender; but all shot
straight up into heaven. branching out
into feathery green far above us. ThcSs
were also fallen trees and great stunsps'
many feet through.
With the Giant Killers.
Arriving at the camp, left tho -;
and tramped from tree to tree throuE,,
the woods to watch tho cutting, now
sinking to my waist In the jungle ana
now shricking as 4 grabbed what ap-I
poarcd to be an innocent branch and
found 1t covered with thorns. climbed
over trunk after trunk OF these fallen
monarchs. and walked, It seemed to me,
for miles upon them. jumping from one
to another, always fearing that L might
slip and fall Into the Jungle below.
was surprised to see how rapidly
the lurnhermen moved but, upon MOTTO
ing their great heavy boots, found
that the soles were studded with sharp
spikes, which pierced the bark and made
them sure-foo ted. l83
The first tree I saw felled was thirty
feet in circumference. and where 1t was
cut, about as high above the grohnd
ms my head, 1t was ten feet in diameter.
The choppers stood upon boards and
made q cash In the trunk so large that
a man could lie inside it; and this cash.
determined tho direction Of Its falling.
The choppers know how to cut SO they
can make the tree drop just where they
please, and SO that t will not break or
injure other valuable timber. After the
cutting the saving began, and took two
men almost an hour. They pulled the
great crosscut saw back and forth. pour
ing oil on It to make 1t move smoothly
That tree must have been hundreds OF
years growing. It began to make its
way through the soil long before Column
bus came to tAmerlca,s but these yandalss
destroyed 1t In less than an hour. Il
AS soon as 1t was on the ground ans
other set OF men took charge OF 1T They
made gashes in the trunk thirty to forty
feet apart, marking 1t OF, into logs, while
Others trimmed the branches. and a third
set of sawyers cut II in pieces. It was
only a few%ho after cutting before 1t
was ready to be load ed on the cars.
Loading Lumber With Gables.
All \ the lumber here ID is & loaded with
cables ty means Of steam engines. The
cables are ropes of steel as thick as a
broom handle and "a mile or more long.
They are carried through the forest