Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-03-31
PASSING OF HEMLOCK
FROM BIG TRACT.
The Goodyears After the Largest
Body of Henlock in This State.
SHOULD COME TO EMPORIUM
IT'S NATURAL OUTLET.

While much is said relative to the
Buffalo & Susquehanna r. r., going
into the hands of a receiver, the Good
years are busy getting ready TO demol-
ish the large tract, located near EN-
porium, on the Notwithstanding
highway, near what is known as Gid
dler's Green" AT this point town is
being established boarding
houses-named Nunundab, where al
ready active preparations are now
started. Soon the ring of the woods
mans singing and familiar sounds will
be heard. Located 80 near Emporium,
no doubt considerable business will
come this way. The Goodyears are
building twenty miles of raiload to the
timber and will haul the hemlock to
Keating Summit and Austin. The
bark, which is owned by the Elk Tan
ming Company, no doubt will come
this way.
The fact that there are 10 years of
cutting on the track, with lumber
prices aa high as they are these days,
means that several millions of dollars
will be realized before the cleanup"
year on the job comes round.
The Potato Creek forests account for
the recent purchase of ten new engines
by the Buffalo & Susquehanna, and
both the saw mills at Keating Summit
and Austin, feel that that they have
taken on a new lease of life, while the
| small army of men that find employ
ment in them are correspondingly
happy.
The new timber will not benefit the
Galeton end of the Buffalo & Susque-
| hanna, as the shorter haul to market
is from this end out.
There is substantial ssprinkling of
hardwood on the Potato Greek tract,
though it is also said for it that it con-
tains some Of the finest pine that ever
ran up against a saw and this stuff will
be worth its weight in silver almost.
The cuttingsby mills will hardly be
commenced before next fall, as the 20
miles of railroad will not be completed
before that. The first peeling will be
this summer, when small army of
choppers and bark peelers will invade
the new territory.
1t is said of the Potato Creeks woods
that they are alive with rattesnakes,
so that the woodsmen will have some
| great stories to tell of their experiences
with the "varmints." This timber belt
is not far from that section of Potato
Greek in which an oil and gas excite
ment was aroused two years ago, and
it is not at all improbable that in addi-
ton to the value ofthe timber on top
of the ground there are oil and gas to
be found underneath it. Butt though
the Goodyears have had logging terri
tory heretofore that looked quite like
ly in the gas business, yet they stuck
strictly to the making of sawdust-and
shekels-and permitted the other fel-
low to risk his money and his time in
dry holes and clusters" We believe
the oil and gas right is vested in the
original owners of the land.
The stave wood feature of the new
timber tract is uniquely important
There are but few real big stave mills
in the state any more, because of in.
ability to obtain wood. There is a big
one in connection with the Central
Pennsylvania Lumber company's
operations at Laquin, Bradford county,
where the famous Schraeder forest is
fast being hewn down by the Barclay
Bros operations, who went there from
Cameron county, and the Pleasant
Stream tract invaded the logs from
both being cut on the mills at Laquin.