Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1911-07-31

point is completed. Each camp has
its foreman, and working force of
about As men.
Logging Methods.
In this country, owing to it's rough
ness uphill logging is carried on.
The railroad, which is the artery of
logging carrying in the supplies and
taking out the logs, runs along the
tops of the ridges. When a new Sec
tion is to be opened up, the road is
put through to the end of a ridge.
The trees are cut down at the point
OF the ridge first, down the side of
the canyon. The logs are then haul
ed away. The logging then follows
the top and sides of the ridge back
along the railroad. When the ridge
is logged the rails and ties, the donk-
ey engines and shacks are picked up
and carried to some other point.
The cutting of the trees follows
the same methods as of old. Well
muscled men with axe and saw are
the methods" The tree is undercut
in the direction it is to fall, then it is
sawed from the opposite side, wedges
being driven to prevent the weight of
the tree binding the saw against the
stump. When the tree is felled it is
sawed into lengths convenient for
handling. usually of 20 or 80 feet.
The really interesting thing in the
process is dragging the logs to the
landing at the railroad. Three donkey
engines are used. The first, the
"yarder" drags the logs up the hill. A
heavy wire rope is fastened to the end
of the log and then wound up on a
drum, thus dragging the log up the
hill over snags and around stumps
The line from the "half-breed" engine
then drags the log on to the skidway,
sort of trough made of logs laid
lengthwse. The "roader" drags the
log on down to skidway to the "land-
ing" Here the logs are rolled by
means of cables on the trucks of the
railway. The work at the yarder and
the landing are most interesting. The
skill and ingenuity of the loggers is
here shown at it's best, for the logs
must be handled in as little time and
with as few adjustments OF the line
as possible. Each log presents new
problem, both to the hOok-tender get
ting the logs out Of the canyon and
to the loading boss who by means of
the power cable rolls them on the
trucks. While the logs are of course
not handled by hand, the strength and
agility of the loggers is continually
tried in fixing the heavy lines and
running about over the logs.
The trainload of logs is then hauled
down to the river landing where the
logs are picked up by the steam pow
er of the engine and dropped into the
river, to float down the booms, there
to be sorted, made into RATS, and tow
ed down the river to the mills.
A Camp Dinner.
A story of logging camp would be
incomplete without a description of q
camp dinner. When fifty men come
in from a morning spent in hard man
ual labor they are not to be satisfied
with French menu and fancy table
ware. They want something to ea
that is bounteous in supply and wei
cooked And the dinner we ate a.
Camp 4 would satisfy the hardest
toiler of the woods and the profession
al gourmand of the cities. The camI
table was loaded down with victuals
of great variety and apparently mex
haustible supply. But the demand
was prOportionate, and the soup ant
beans and meat and potatoes, the
spaghetti and corn and bread, the pie
and pudding and cake, the coffee ant
water and milk, disappeared like mag
ic. For the cook knew his trade; ant
the fifty men knew there was five
hours of hard toll till suppertime