The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-01-05
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Barely Is time allowed for eating and
sleeping Nevertheless all that day
the men lay about in complete idle
ness. The pond filled with logs. From
above the current. aided by a fair
wind. was driving down still other
iogs-the forerunners of the little drive
astern. At sight of these some of the
men grumbled We're losin' what we
said they 1--WE left them logs
and sorted 'em out once already"
Orde sent a couple Of axmen to blaze
the newcomers. A little before sun
down he ordered the sluice gates of
the dam opened.
might work" said the men to one
Sure enough, after supper Orde sud
denly appeared among them.
Get organized, boys" said he brisk
ly. We've got to get this pond all
sluiced before morning"
The men took their places.
"Sluice through everything but the
H logs" Orde commanded. Work
them of to the left and leave them"
The sluicing. under the impetus Of
big crew, went rapidly There's near
million an hour going through there"
specialized Orde. watching the burden
ed waters of the chute. And in this
work the men distinguished easily the
new white blaze marks on Heinzman's
logs, SO they We're able to shunt them
one side into the smoother water, as
Orde had commanded.
AS the last log shot through Orde
cried. TEAR out the booms.'
The chute to the dam was approach
ed. as has been earlier explained, by
two rows of booms arranged in v, or
funnel, the apex of which emptied into
the sluiceway and the wide, projecting
arms of which embraced the width of
the stream. The logs. floating down
the pond. were thus concentrated to-
ward the sluice; also the riyermen,
walking back and forth the length of
the booms, were able easily to keen the
drive moving.
Now. however, Orde unclaimed these
boom logs. The men pushed them
ashore. clamped in their peaves and,
using these implements as handles.
carried the booms back into the woods.
Then everybody tramped back and
forth, round and about, to confuse the
trail. Orde was like mischievous bow
at u school prank.
The blazed logs belonging to Heinz
man. drifting slowly. had sucked down
INTO the corner toward the power canal
where. caught against the grating they
lad jammed. These logs would have
to be foated singly and pushed one by
one against the current across the pond
and into the influence Of the sluic,
gate. Some of them would be hard Il
come at.
II guess that will keep them busy 70
ii day or two,' commented Orde.
This, as Orde has said, would be SUI
iciently annoying to Heinzman. b.
would have little real effect on IL
main issue, which was that the &c
man was getting down his logs with
crew of less than a dozen men. Ne
ertheless Orde in vast spirit of fl
took delight in inventing and eXecutil
practical jokes of the general sort ju
described. One day the chore boy, W
had been over to Spruce Rapids aft
mail. reported that an additional ere
Of twenty had been sent in to Heir
mans drive. This was gratifying.
Were making him scratch grav
boys, anyway" said Orde.
The men entered into the spirit
the thing. In fact. their enthusias
was almost too eXuberant. Orde HI
constantly to negative new and
genious schemes.
NO, boys" said he, II want to Ike
on the right side of the law. We m
need it later"
Logs rarely jam on rising water. +
the simple reason that constantly
surface area of the river is increasin
thus tending to separate the logs {
the other hand, falling water, tendil
| to crowd the drive closer together,
especially prolific of trouble. Thel
fore, on flood water the watche
scattered along the stretches of t
liver had little to do-save stral
tieinzman's logs for him
UP to certain point this was (;
very well. Orde took pains not
countenance it officially and caus
| word to be passed about that, viii
he did not expect his men to help dri
Heinzman's logs, they must not go o
of their way to strand them.
IF things get too bad. he'll ha
spies down here to collect eviden
on us" said Orde, land he'll jug Sol
of us for interference with his pro
erty. We don't own the river"
Inside of two weeks Orde had Il
great satisfaction Of learning th