Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-04-12

The season of numbering operations re-
gently closed will bring In the aggregate |
hundreds of thousands OF dOllars nv
circulation in Wndham county anu 1ne
sunny of logs cut and hauled VIII Keep
tbe mills i'm nearly every town in the
oo,,rty busv throughout the year Prob
oblv the value of the cut in the winter Oh
IoO6 OF has never been exceeded, ana the
conditions for work in the WOODS were
seldom so favorable for an entlre Wlnte,
There was snow sufficient for good sied-
ding throughout four months, but there
Has never any great depth of snow to
hinder operation few drifts and crusts
which are frequently a source OF trouble
did not form TO any extent. ..,,
The Deerfeld Lumber company oil VIII
miugton, which is the largest lumber con-
Germ i'm this part of the state, made a
total cut of 1G 600 600 feet of timber and
kent 400 men steadily employed in the
woods i'm Somerset, Stratton and Glastens-
bury. The men have now scattered IN an
directions but a full force will be PACK
early next fall. The snow has not inter
fered with the operation of the railroad
built from Mountain Mills into the ior-
ests last summer and fall, and logging
trains have been run regularly over its en-
tire length of Is miles into the western
edge of the town of Stratton. Mountain
Mills is now hive Of industry ana Ioo
mon are employed there, and that force
the saw and pulp mills, in addition to
about so ND the river who are employed
in handling and loading the logs. The
company has so, 600, 900 feet of timber
to be loaded 1t is expected that the cut
in the woods each season hereafter Will
be about 10000, 900 feet The production
at Mountain Mills at the present time
amounts to SO 900 feet daily, but only
one side of the mill is being run The
other side will be started soon, and the
output daily will then be 10000 feet. the
Deerfield Lumber company will run n log
drive down the east branch this season.
hut that will be the end Of log drives in
that section, as hereafter the railroad will
be utilized in handling the logs and river
traffic will cease. There is a good pros
pect that within another year a hard
wood mill will be established at Mountain
Mills This would bring a good number
of permanent residents to the town, and
would mean very desirable increase in
population and volume of business.
The Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington
railroad gives the lumber company good
service and there is no complaint of car
shortage The cars are loaded direct at
the mill and the capacity of each car Is
sufficient to fill a regular broad gauge car
The transfer to the Fitchburg division OF
the Boston & Maine railroad is made al
Hoosac Tunnel and there are always
plenty of freight cars returning from Bos
ton empty which may be used in making
the shipments of lumber to North Adams
Pittsfield, Troy, Albany and other east
ern New York cities and New YORK city
AS soon as the frost is out of the GROUND
a branch of the Deerfield River company
railroad will be extended from the mail
line to Chase's mills in Somerset TIL
length of this line has not been deter
mined as the route has not been decided
definitely. About 100 men will be EN-
ployed in the work of railroad construc
ton While the company plans eventual
to run it's line through to Manchester
having a main road 80 miles long, thi
work may not be completed for three o
four years The company, when tn
branch is completed into Somerset, wi
be within striking distance of all the tim
Der that it will need for some time