The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-11-21
MUCH NUMBERING IS
BEING PREDICTED
Thousands of Cords and Millions OF
Feet of Pulp and Dimension Lum-
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I'VE are going to have the busiest
season in years in the numbering line.
especially in short stuff, all up and
down the railroad this winter" said a
Phillips man who is we'll versed in
matters of this nature to a Maine
! Woods reporter
Thousands of cords and millions
of feet of pulp stuff and dimension
lumber will go over the road before
spring he went on.
THE WORK AT BARNJuM.
One OF the liveliest places on the
map in this section will be the little
place known as Barnjum, where the
Barnjum Timberland Company will
operate and cut 100000 feet the
coming year. This place is at the
end OF the line that has been built
during the summer and fall from
Saunders to Mt Abram township. 1t
is there that Mr. Barnjum's forces
will cut and saw lumber all winter
long, shipping the finished product
out over the new road.
Then there is the Field & Haley OPP
Grafton. These Phillips men are cut
ting and putting into the market not
far from 5000 cords of spruce, fir and
poplar pulpwood This stuff will be
taken to the line of the railroad at
various points and the work of getting
it in shape for transportation will
mean the employment of many men at
good wages.
The Lewis & MaXey pulp job al
Madrid is another of the monster
pieces of work in this line in this vi
cinity. These men will have cut 5000
cords when their job is completed
The pulp wood will be delivered at the
cars at Madrid village,
F. n. Beal of the Sandy River &
/ Rangeley Lakes r. r. has been inter
ested for some time in some good
sized numbering operations. He has
over 1000 cords of pulp to come in
over the line by the new siding be-
tween Reeds and Saunders and 800
cords of excellent white birch.
WILL CUT 100000.
Abbott. g. Cleaves, who are we'll
known in this section through their
good sized numbering operations, will
have 100000 feet of long timber at
their siding and George B. Bearce &
Son about the same amount at Sandy
river.
Another good sized operation will
be that of Taylor w. Mathers, former
" of Newport and Enfield. n. H., who
will start up the mill in Avon this
winter, which has been idle for long
time. Mr.. Mathers owns about 1900
acres of land on the side of Mt. Blue,
of which a large amount is spruce. Mr..
Mathers has been successful in his
work in New Hampshire. He is also
the owner of large tract of timber
land on Salmon River, New Bruins
wick.
There are also many small opera
tors who cut dimension lumber and
pulp wood in comparatively small
amounts who will swell the grand to-
tai to a large figure.
Business is SO good in this sec
ton in fact, that it is very difficult to
get men to work in the woods. An
example of this was given one day
recently by couple of men who walk
ed into town from New Hampshire,
looking, they said, for work. They
were offered 81 a day, but for a time
they refused to work at this price
Finally, however. they decided to ac-
cept the offer, after being assured
that the length of a day would not be
over eight hours.
CORDWOOD DIFFICULT TO GET.
1t is next to impossible to get any
cordwood cut about town, although
some who are interested In getting up
a winters supply of wood have been
offering high prices for help. One
Phillips man says that he would like
to make a contract with some man to
cut 1000 cords of wood.
The success of people of this sec
ton who have invested in timber and
wood lands in recent years reads al
most like fiction. There is one young
woman in Phillips who purchased a
strip of wood land not many years
ago for less than 500 who has been
offered $1,000 lately for her plot.