Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-04-12
BANNER SEASON FOR THE LUMBERMEN
Eour MoObs of Good Shedding with Conditions Ideal for Work in
the Woods DeerfeId Lumber Co. Cut l6'OOOuoO feet'
0peratons in the West River Valley

of logs to saw this season, mostly taken
from the Sherwin lot on West hill whlch
the company will clean up in another
season The company has also TAKEN |
several hundred thousand rect from tne
Potter lot on Turkey mountain and the |
Knight lot on South hill. The greater |
part of this stock is spruce and hemloch'
with some hard wood. The company mas |
hired the Holden & Martin mill on Copp |
brook where it will saw out the logs re
naming on the Abbott and Hamilton iots
on Turkey mountain. f. G.. Hosley mas
the contract of cutting and drawing TO
the mill on these lots w. F. Cutting Is
operating a mill for the company at WIN
hall station, saving out the timber on the
Cressy lot, bought last summer. He VIII
finish i'm about two months. John NC
Curdv has a job on the lot cutting ana
drawing. and will get out about 100000
feet of soft wood and 100000 feet of hard
wood from this lot.
The operations of the p. S Gallup Lum-
Der Co have been curtailed about one
half owing to the poor railroad service.
Last year the company cut over 100000
feet but was unable to ship only about
one-half of it. and SO concluded to limit
this winters cut The company has had
about so men and % teams employed ana
has operated two mills, one in BondNlle,
where it has sawed out about 100000
feet of spruce and hemloCk taken from
February. The other mill is on the Or
cult meadows, the timber lying on the
west side of Stratton mountain Here
over 2 900. 900 feet has been sawed out
some soft wood and some very fine noun
tain birch. w. f. Shippee has the job of
drawing and cutting at the mill, employ
ing 40 men and teams. The job Will last
| several years. All the lumber from the
mill on circuit meadows is drawn eight
| miles to the Jamaica railroad station.
| there stuck up and afterward loaded
! on cars. Five men under supervision OF
! F. c. Chandler are employed in the rail-
road yard to do this work also team.
\. b. Stark has about 300 600 feet in his
mill yard in Jamaica village These logs
were brought by different people and in
clude the remainder of the logs from the
Wheeler lot near Adams pond.
The Windham Light e Lumber COM
| pany received a small stock cut from sew
eral different lots. This comapny has re-
Gently made large sale Of standing tim
Der and other property To the Jamaica
Lumber company and the latter concern
will saw out the logs at the Mclean mill.
w II. Joslln of Jamaica has in his
yard a large stock of handsome logs
which were bought from local people
These logs will be used in manufacturing
baby carriage spokes, AK helves, char
stock etc. Active operations have begun
! on the Butler pine lot in East Jamaica
/ and enough logs nave dIeduN Dttll cut ~
that mill soon will be built there 10 saw
them out This lot is estimated to con-
tain about 1.5O0 900 feet of lumber, most
ly pine, with some good hemlock and OAK
, A. good lot of logs have been drawn into
the Cutting mill. now owned by c. r
, Wilder, mostly for the Deerfeld Rive
company. The l. B. williams mill wa!
/ stocked this season by f. c. W"uer, VII
was killed in the woods recently. Thes'
logs will probably be sawed out in Yves
' Jamaica.
, There has been less numbering than II
previous years in Stratton. probably no
r over half a million feet being cut. \ bi
e timber tract in Stratton is owned by tn
4 Emporium Lumber company of Keatin
= Summit Pa. This company acquired tn
extensive holdings of the late Silas Grif
fifth in Dandy, Mt. Tabor. Peru. Strattor
Winhal and other towns some 5000
V acres in all The company will let tn
r timber in Stratton stand several years be
. fore cutting. The Somerset Land com
e pany, headed by Livingston Cushing o
- Boston, also owns big forests In Strat
= ton, but its operations this winter haN
g been largely in Someret.
: The lumberng operations in London
C derry and vicinity have been large, prob
ably 100000 feet being cut
e There are many towns in the county i
V which n large business has been carrie
on, but the returns from them are nc
: complete. There are nine mills in Hall
s fax which have a capacity of about so,
g 900 feet a day. and have furnished EN-
g ployment regularly through the winter
a 10 hands. There are five mills i'm opera
t ton i'm Marlboro.