New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-03-23
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THREE days later the jam of the
| drive reached the dam at Red
ding. After the rear had drop
ped down river from Redding
Carroll and Orde returned to their de-
serted little box of a house at Mon
! rovia.
Orde breathed deep of a new salts
| faction in walking again the streets of
this little sandy, saWdust paved, shan
tyfed town. with it's yellow hills and
it's wide blue river and it's glimpse of
the lake far in the ohng.
Hanged if l know what's struck
me-" he mused Never experienced
any remarkable joy before in getting
back to this sort Of truck
Then, with a warm glow at the
heart, the realization was brought to
him. This was home, and over yonder
under the shadow Of the heaven point
ing spire slip Of a girl was waiting
for him.
The rest Of the week Orde was alb
sent up the river, experimenting in a
general way the latter progress of the
drive.
At the booms everything was il
readiness to receive the jam. The
long swim arm slanting across the
river channel was attached to it's
winch, which would operate It. When
| shut it would close the main channel
| and shunt into the booms the logs float
| ing in the river. There, penned at last
| by the piles driven in row and held
together at the top by bolted timbers,
they would lie quiet. Men armed with
pike poles would then take up the
work Of distribution according to the
brands stamped on the ends. Each
brand had it's own separate sorting
pens," the lower end leading again
| into the open river. From these each
owners property was RATED and towed
| to his private booms at his mill below
Orde spent the day before the jam
appeared in constructing what he call
ed a boomerang"
'Secret invention just yet" he ex-
planned to Newmark. Pm going to
hold up the drive in the main river
until we have things punched; then
I'm going to throw big crew down
here by the swing. Heinzman antici-
| pates, of course, that I'll run the en-
tire drive into the booms and do all
my sorting there Naturally if turn
| his logs loose into the river as fast as
l run across them he will be able to
pick them up one at time, for he'll
only get them occasionally. If keep
them until everything else is sorted
only Heinzman's logs will remain, and
as we have no right to hold logs we'll
have to turn them loose through the
lower sorting booms, where he can be
ready to raft them. In that way he
gets them all right without paying us
cent See?"
| eyes, I see,'' said Newmark
| "Well." said Orde. with laugh,
''here is where l fool him. I'm going
to rush the drive into the booms all at
once, but I'm going to sort out Heinz
mans logs at these openings near the
entrance and turn them into the main
channel
what good will that doy' asked
Newmark skeptically. s'He gets them
sorted just the same, doesn't hep
"The currents fairly strong" Orde
pointed out. and the rivers almighty
wide. When you spring seven or eight
i million feet on man all at once and
unexpected and he with no crew to
| handle them, he's going to keep al
mighty busy. And if he don't stop
them this side his mill he'll have to
raft and tow them back, and if he
doesn't stop 'em this side the lake he
may as well kiss them all goodby.''
The boomerang worked like charm
Orde, in personal charge, watched rnat
through the different openings in his
boomerang the "H'' logs were shunt.
ed into the river. Shortly the channel
was full of logs floating merri1y away.
1--WE got to go down and see how the
Dutchman is making it, announced
Orde.
He drove to Heinzman's mill. There
he found evidences of the widest ex.
citement. Boats piled in all directions
a tug darted back and forth. Con
stantly the number Of floating logs
augmented, however. Many had al
ready gone by.
j IF you think you're busy now said
Orde to himself, with chuckle, "just
:. wait until you begin to get logs. What's
he doing with that tug?" thought he
/ "Oh, no. He's stringing booms across
/ the river to hold the whole outfit"
II He laughed alnud and drovo fro n