Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1910-03-08

ding. After the rear had drop
ped down river from Redding
Carroll and Orde returned to their de-
serted little box of house at Mon
royia.
Orde breathed deep of new satis-
faction in walking again the streets OF
this little sandy, sawdust paved. shan
tyfied town, with its yellow hills and
its wide blue river and its glimpse OF
the lake far in the ofing.
Hanged If know what's struck
me-" be 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 sDlre q slip Of girl was waiting
for him.
The rest of the week Orde was alb
sent up the river, superintending In
general way the latter progress OF the
drive.
At the booms everything was in
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 1t 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 a row and held
together ut 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 its 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 boomerang"
Secret invention just yet" be ex-
| plained to Newmark. I'm 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 rs
| I 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 well
have to turn them loose through the
lower sorting booms, where he can be
ready to raft them. In that way be
gets them all right without paying US
a cent. See?"
"Yes, see," said Newmark.
"Well," said Orde. with a laugh
"here is where fool him. I'm going
to rush the drive into the booms all al
once. but I'm going to sort out Heinz
mans logs at these openings near the
entrance and turn them into the mair
channel"
"what good will that dor asked
Newmark skeptically. "He gets then
sorted just the same. doesn't he"
"The currents fairly strong" Ordt
pointed out. "and the rivers almight!
wide. When you spring seven or eigh
million feet on a man all at once and
unexpected and he with no crew tt
handle them. he's going to keep al
mighty busy. And II he don't stoT
them this side his mill he'll have Il
raft and tow them back, and II ht
doesn't stop 'em this side the lake h
may as we'll kiss them all goodby."
The boomerang worked like charm
Orde, in personal charge. watched tha
through the different openings In hl'
boomerang the N" logs were shunt
ed into the river. Shortly the channe
was full of logs floating merrily away
T've got to go down and see how tn
Dutchman Is making It." announced
Orde.
He drove to Heinzman's mill. Ther'
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 log
augmented. however. Many had al
ready gone by.
"If you think you're busy now" sait
Orde to himself. with chuckle. 'jus
wait until you begin to get logs. What
he doing with that tug?" thought be
"Oh. ho! He's stringing booms across
the river to hold the whole outfit"
He laughed aloud and drove fran
tically back to the booms.
"He's shut down his MILL" shouted
Orde, "and he's got all that gang o
highbankers out and every old run
blossom in Monrovia. and bet
you say logs to him he'd chase hi
tail in circles. I'm going to take Mars
and the Sprite and 90 to town. Oh
Heinzman." he added as an after
, thought. 'is stringing booms across tn
river er-obstructing navigation"
Il Marsh" he called, got up steaml