New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-09
BAD LUMBER WINTER.
Mid Weather Hurts Loggers, but Is
Good for Game.

! Little Falls, n. V, Jan. THE Adirondack um-
! berpen, pulp haulers and hardwood cutters are
| complaining OF the lack in the woods. A
mild season, such the gentle weather of Decerp-
! her seems to foretell, means hard times for the
forest workers. who unable TO haul logs or
| cordwood without plenty of For the best
! forest hauling least three feet of snow Is re-
! quired, otherwise the rough, ungraded roads are
well nigh. if quite. impossible for the sieds'
! Unless snow soon, the, timber that is. al
ready down cannot all be carried from the skid
ways to the stream side dumps and to the hardwood
! yards.
A mild winter following last summer makes the
! Adirondack year-from May to May-one OF tne
least profitable in many years TO the forest in
dustrics. Last incessant rains caused
such oldtime lumhermen Sol Carnahan. Dan
AIacCauley and the Macbeths 10 complain bitterly
Their Jobs were most of them IN Spruce knoll
country Spruce knobs have plentiful area OF
low ground between them, all of which must be
worked and traversed by the skidding teams
fellers road cutters, etc. and this low ground was
actually af1oat for weeks at stretch during the
summer months
'Mudr' exclaimed Carnahan, why it got so
chick in cuttings that couldn't come
within 10 per of normal days work. and
the storms kept the men in camp more days 10
the month than ! knew before
The summers telling lies in the forest on
hfllsdes on long sideways. The skds are further
from the drivabe streams than ever before. ana
the roads are consequently longer and 1t VIII
take time for a team to haul an. aVefase
load from the skid to the dump. Scarcely any
hauling has been done and the jobbers max
ing characteristic efforts 10 make sprinkled ice
roads OF the little snow there is. They are hoping
that snow enough to make good hauling Will come
early in January and stay until late March II the
snow should hold off It'll February and then come
in heavy storms It probably WILL good siedd1hs
will scarcely be had before the spring tha"S
set in The most cheerful of the Jobbers DO mo-
expect TO get in than two-thirds OF their
lncS RI m
summer cutting. Ihat means loss W iii''N'' -
not all, of the jobbers.
nisastrops as the year seems to have been to
the Ioggers the people who visit the mountains
for pleasure during the summer and fan months
have reason to rejoice over the md weathel' "
though few will experience any of 1t dlrectiy'
MIA uea+ber indicates that all kinds of wild NE
will prosper and that deer especially VIII nav
an opportunity 10 recuperate from the 6Fe1U s
which have been suffered in the past three VIZ
ters It is believed that in the year ehoeu i'
NAV at least one-third of the deer in the noun
tatns died of exposure disease and illegal klliliS'
Last fall the deer recovered some OF Inc ios'
ground because of the small number killed oS mn,
ters owing to noisy woods. So small was the XII
that Adirondack sportsmen's resorts became eA-
ceedingy worried over the matter son
the North Side Toward the last OF e ene but not
enough by far to make the usual yearly score 9s
four thousand thereabouts NeyertmeIssS s RS
ported number Transported" to fall much II any
'e The mild weather indicates that the deer will
60 re- hotter han in many years, That means 1eWer
viii die and more fawns will grow to heditns
maturity Not only food conditions peter, pus
trusting Is not possible in the shallow snow whie
the lev underfootng is so noisy tnat the nleH W.
would LAY in a supply OF fresn ineaI a Ivy
could are unable to kill many head OF game f4,
most iuxuriously. There never We're SO I msemy
rllffed grouse in the woods as at present Ino o
sands Of the birds scattered arouna IHe i
ngs in woOdots and along the cage Oh Ile Ss
s,Ied the grouse very much. because they coud h9t
! find q ready market for the birds with lile iesit
that the birds have increased steadily
Foxes, mink ermine, musKratS, ana ptISr ~
animals Fur buyers paying almost Iapulous
prices for many kinds of skins. and the values are
7 is said that there are more trapperS III
the woods this winter than ever ana the t.Hpei
| are making third more captures and gettng 10
| ner cent more for their catches than last year
Some of them claim to have taken sSV0 worm Or
skins so far year and that is normal WINTER
catch for an expert. although the season Is ON!
a remarkable feature of the winter is the pres
| once of snowy owls. the great white birds whlch
come from the arctic country every lew ySdt ~
| so-caIIed mgratons II is not known. why the
birds appear in unusual numbers. but IT Is peheVeq
had weather in Canada, coupled with IacK 81
small animals. drives the owls southwark ms
and other prey from afar, for they nave come
| dou-r far as Massachusetts ana the Mohti"h
River in large mum befS
Perhaps the most interesting TACT ABOUT a llll9
| of win visitors. come owners or COY
tages having discovered the Joys of camp me IN
SnOIUv wilderness Moreover. an open season Is
good because more observers are
56road TO read the stories in the snow. The ndica-
tio,s SIRE that more observations of natural history
| facts have been made this winter in the Adlron-
| dacks than before.