The Appeal., 1911-03-18
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eight to ten miles distant from vour NEAREST
nelghbor. If you should so choose to settle.
among group of steep up-anddowns, quite re-
moved from wagon road, a little nearer to a
tra14' and yet a greater and laborious overland
distance from sawmll, it is obvious that Won
WILL nave TO depend, to a great degree upon your
own resources and upon your ability to create
WIN your own hands from those things which
nature has provided in well-wooded country.
Imagine yourself placed in one of these val
leys or upon one of these foothills, with no great
er amount of baggage, tools and provisions than
could be conveyed over a country of this char
acter With yoke Of oxen. Then, to be COM
manoed, Here is the forest and all it contains:
co. prepare for yourself your future abode"
This is story of home making under such
conoltlons The progress of the work is illus
trated and in its completion no other than the
raw materials Of the forest entered into the srnc
ture or Its furnishings save a small amount of
hardware and lncidentals forming a portion of the
Initial supplies brought in as a settlers outfit
Two young men, homesteaders both city bred.
completed the entire work, unasssted
or the tools used the double-bitted ak ner-
formed the greater portion of the heavy work It
1ollowed in the wake of the crosscut saw after
lne 1elllng OF the trees, and, from then on was
tne cnlef implement Of construction With if
every duty OF preparing the logs for raising them
into their positions in the building was most ade
quately performed. First it scored the logs
o'e'n"1Io' on tWO oppOSlte SlOeS, ready for Wedg
Ing and splitting into semicircula1 halves Then
1t followed as the tool for hewng the fat SIR
races OF the halflogs, which, completed formed
tne smooth inside walls of the DWELLING After
each log had been raised into position came the
task OF "notching down." which required even
more skill IN the use of an Those few of the
native Inhabitants Of the forest who are most nro
hcient in making the dovetailed notches vb;cb
are necessary in completing perfect set Of
interlocklng hmbers are known as corner men y
AT native house raising the ones chosen for the
WORK are usually skilled woodsmen residing in
Wldely separated settlements among the hills
HOW we'll this part of the work was done by two
n'ei totally unaccCstomed to pioneer life
Is DeIter illustrated in the series Of phoogra mis-
which shows each successive operation of preDarine
tne logs and raising the framework of the structure
IN gong OH to the flooring. shingling window
framing, partitioning, finishing and furnishing
you would know how it was all ACCOMPLISHED in
Tue absence OF the products of saw and plan
Ing mill or any of the manufactures so essential
10 building construction and home making.
Five very common tools constituted the board
making outfit. This primitive substitute for
sd"H'H included an ak; two or three steel
wedges and as many, hand made of hickory: 2
1ro"' with hickory handle, the blade made of a
sectloh or iron tire; mallet and maui, each
cut from unseasoned hickory timber.
The selection of perfect "board trees" ia
guess work to degree, as practiced by the ma
uves Out Of every four trees chosen by the
woodsman's system of Identifying marks, usually
only one is perfectly adaptable to board making
oy the method Of splitting with mallet and frow.
me most reliable way to select the right kind
OF timber is to observe the general trend of the
crevices in the bark. The course of these lines
should be nearly perpendicular with the trunk
Another good method Of Judging straight
grained trunk is to note the distribution and tie
general design of the scaly, turtle-shell patches