Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-11-14
WAR SECRETARY
APPROVES RULES
Regulations Governing Float
ing Of Loose Rats Is
of General Interest

The following Regulations Govern.
ing Floating of Loose Logs. Timber
and Rats of Timber and Logs on
Grays Harbor. and Tributaries, Wash.
ington," as approved July 25, 1912, by
Robert Shaw Oliver, secretary of war,
will be of interest to many:
In pursuance of authority confer
red by act of congress, approved May
8, 1900, entitled can act to authorize
the secretary of war to make regula-
tions governing the running of loose
logs, steamboats, and RATS on certain
rivers and streams" the following
regulations are prescribed for Grays
Harbor and tributary streams. Wash
ington, whereon the floating of loose
timber and logs, and RATS of timber
and logs, is the principal method of
navigation.
l. Before operating on Grays Har-
Dor or tributary streams, all loggers
river drivers, log tow boats and log
tow boat companies shall register at
the United States engineer office, Sc
attle, Washington, giving the firm
name, name of manager and postoffice
address. They shall also register an
nually thereafter on July 1 of each
year.
2. No logs shall be dumped into
the rivers or released from storage or
sorting booms without being turned
over to registered driving or tow
boat company. firm or individual
3. River drivers authorized to oper.
ate on the streams tributary to Grays
HarbOr must maintain a sufficient or
ganizatiOn of boats and experienced
worhmen to care for the drivers of
their customers.
4. River drivers shall so conduct
their operations that all parts of the
rivers upon which they operate will
be effectively patrolled, and the for
nation of jams prevented.
). Should a blockade of logs oc-
cur below the head of tide water in
any of the rivers at any time, each
logger operating on the river above
the location CT said blockade shall dis,
continue dumping logs into the river
until the blockade shall be broken
6. Log drivers must not indiffer-
emily operate or delay the transit of
logs.
I. Loggers who entrust their logs
to river drivers will be required to
satisfy themselves that their logs are
driven in accordance with the regu-
lations
s. The floating of loose logs. or
Of sack RATS of timber and logs, is
prohibited in the Chehalis river be-
low Preachers slough; in the Hoquiam
river below the forks and also in the
Wishkah river below a point four
miles above the mouth.
Q. The floating of RATS, or of single
tows of timber and logs, which exceed
$50 feet nlength and 60 feet in width,
is prohibited in the Chehalis river be-
tween the Oregon-Washington r. r.
Co. bridge at Aberdeen and the North
ern Pacific r. R. Co. bridge at Cosmo-
polls; and also in the Hoquiam river
below the forks; and the floating of
RATS, or single tows of timber and
logs which exceed 375 feet in length
and 30 feet in width, is prohibited in
the Wishkah river below the North
Aberdeen bridge.
10. Hemlock logs that will not
float with at least six inches of butt
out of water shall not be fioated in
any streams tributary to Grays Har-
Dor; and no boat shall tow any raft
containing any log of this character
unless such log is securely fastened
so as to prevent it's escape from the
raft.
II. These regulations shall take ef
feet and be in force on and after jan
/. 1913. Approved: July 25. 1912.
ROBERT SHAW OLIVER,
Assistant Secretary Of War