The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-02-24
Crookston Company Ships Timber in
Car Load Lots to Bemidji
Unloading Platform
MEN SAID TO BE WELL FED
Have Daily Diet Of Meat, Vegetables
Pastry, Desserts and all
Canned Goods

Activity. surpassed only by the
hustle and hustle Of the states larg-
est cities, marks the work now in
progress at the landing of the Crook
ston Lumber camps near the village
Of Funklcy north of Blackjack. At
distance of more than ten miles can
be seen smoke arising over the tall
tree tops and the hills, which would
lead the passing traveller to believe
that beyond lay a city whose chief
industry is manufacturing and upon
finding the busy scene that presents
itself at the Funkley log loading sta
ton
The Crookston Lumber company
employees at the present time nearly
900 men in the camps that furnish
lOSS lOl lIllS shipping poiAI. III &C
large steam caterpillar haulers are
used in conveying the logs from the
different camps to the landing. These
engines haul over the ice road from
six to ten sleighs loaded with logs
equivalent to , car loads. The ice
road is built from the landing out
into the woods over a distance Of
nearly ten miles, having sidings at
different intervals, and telephones
along the line representing a regular
railway system.
Stationed along this ice road are
several steam pumping stations which
supply water for the steam haulers
and road bed. These pumps are in
constant operation.
At the loading station are three
big steam log leaders, which are used
for unloading the big sleighs and re-
loading the cars. When a train load
is ready for the mill at Bemidji an
engine is in waiting to couple onto
the Minnesota and international road
to this city. where the logs are dump
ed off the big dock into Lake Bemidji.
More than 100 cars are unloaded
here at this mill daily, all being
shipped from camps tributary to the
cities Of Blackjack and Kelliher.
of jC, in oh
camps out Of Blackjack and William
Burce has charge Of the operations in
the kelliher camps. The loading of
the logs at the Funkley station is in
charge Of Robert Mitchell.
Il was always under the impression
that all the lumber jack got to east
was salt pork, beans, potatoes and
canned goods" said a visitor at the
camp the other day. This is an i'm
preston that prevails among the gen.
eral public who know little about
lumber jack life. At all the camps
operated by the Crookston Lumber
company the laborer enjoys a we'll
set table. Their average eatables con-
sist of several kinds of meat, pota-
toes, beans, home made bread,
doughnuts, several kinds of home
made cookies, pies pickles, catsup,
rice, prunes, apple sauce and vege-
tables
The number of cars in active SER
vice hauling logs to the Bemidji mill
is about $50. More than 100 men
are employed at the Bemidji dock un-
loading the logs as they are brought
in, this crew being in charge of Dan
McCauley. The Company has ex-
tended the dock out into the lake
several hundred feet this winter, ia
ciltating the work Of unloading.
1t is expected that the local mill
will begin saving lumber about April
first and continue until cold weather
interferes next fall. 3. w. Lakin
who is in charge of the company's
logging operations keeps in constant
touch with the various camps and
stated that the output this year will
equal, if not surpass that of previous
years. .."''.. r.