The Ely miner., 1912-04-05

thought advisable to change the
paper to a quarterly publication.
This change is due to two factors
namely; that the work on the
Superior has increased sufficiently
to make the getting out OF the
paper considerable of a job in the
Office where the force IS limited,
and that by making the paper
quarterly, better and more neatly
paper can be gotten out.
It is the intention at present to
complete the Ely-Echo River
Telephone Line just as early this
spring as possible. There is quite
little hauling of poles and wire
to be done and with our present
improvement money at point
where plus and minus are equal, 1t
will require some rather intricate
figuring. CAMEL DeCaigny has
applied for some arrangement by
which he can talk to Tower from
the Halfway House, over our
phone line. Mr.. De Caigny has
purchased boat to be run on Lake
Vermilion this summer, and de-
sires to have the Tower connection
to enable him to keep'ln touch with
his boat crew. As compensation
for this service, he agrees to do
the hauling, necessary for the COM
pensation for this service, he agrees
to do the hauling, necessary for
the completion of the line, and
assist in stringing it. AS it is part
of our improvement plan to have
phone connection at De Caigny's,
there seems to be no reason why
the agreement should not be
mutually beneficial.
The American Lumberman"
in its issue of March 2, 1912, con-
tains an advertisement of the Pot
latch Lumber Co. of Potlatch,
Idaho, which says, The King is
no more" The King" was the
largest white pine tree known in
the world. This tree had a
countrywide reputation, and its
fall was lamented by many. 1t
was 2O7 feet high, and 20 feet
around the butt, or over 8 feet
in diameter, and was 42s years old,
(This tree was a Seeding when
Columbus discovered America }
The butt log was 50 feet long and
scaled 200 feet of lumber. The
total scale of the tree was 29,SOO
feet, more than one large carload.
Supervisor Fitzwater, while in
Duluth the early part of February,
took up with the Kelly Howe
Thompson people the proposition
of having a brush-hook made
which would stand little hard
use. The brush hooks heretofore
have been sad make-shift and
not at all dependable. A sample
brush hook has just been received
from the above people, and it seems
to be just what's needed. 1t
weighs 81 pounds, (about II
pound lighter than the other
hooks) and is make of wrought
iron. The top clamp is welded to
te blade and the bottom clamp at
tached by bolt. The great trouble
with the cast iron clamps was that
the cast was often imperfect and
slight side knock would result in
its breaking.
Preliminary reports have been
received on the homestead claims
in 65-15, and with two exceptions
they do not appear to be bona-hde
settlers. Several of them had just
about given up their claims, think
ing that they would not get survey.
1t would seem that this fact alone
should be sufficient to prove that
they were after the timber and not
after home. If it were home
they wanted, there was nothing
to stop them from developing
their claims.
Somebody has asked just what
damage the saw fly would do to
the timber, so as to render it unfit
for lumber. Thesaw fly only affects
the terminal shoot and the foliage.
Due to the good fire season last
year, we have little extra General
expense money this spring. The
question has been taken up with
the District Office of using this