The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-08-14
BUSY SCENES AT
LUMBER CAMP
GREEN POINT MILL is ACTIVE
Plant Of Stanley-Smith Co. Under Eff
cient Management, Runs at Capac-
ity - Unique Logging System

Although visited by many lumbermen |
from timber districts in all parts of |
the country, on account of the unique |
method the Stanley-Smith Lumber Co. |
has devised for hauling its logs IN from |
the woods to its big pond, the lumber |
camps and mill of that company in the |
Green Point hills southwest of the city !
are practically unknown to the people |
of the valley. There on the west
range at an elevation of Sl00 feet the
big mill is daily turning out lao, 600
feet of fir timber. The logs being
felled in the woods, sent into the pond
by means of donkey engines and cable
lines, towed up into the mill, where
they are fed to the maws and ripped
into the right widths, and then sent
down the big nine mile fiume to Bel
mont and Ruthton. At the former
place the lumber for the local retail
trade is taken out while that for ship
ment goes to Ruthton to be loaded on
cars. And from the time the log
| leaves the woods until it is placed
aboard a car or on the wagon of
valley orchardist il moves with clock
like precision. The mill will turn out
in a six months run this year O,O0O,-
600 feet of lumber.
The Stanley-Smith Lumber Co. en-
ploys about 225 men at the present
time, small army, we'll trained, with
corps of the best lieutenants of any
large mill in the country. J. f. Rob
ertson, of this city, is manager of the
lumber company. Mr.. Robertson
knows the lumber business from the
bottom up. He began the work a
quarter of a century ago as a water
boy and has forged his way to the
head of the big enterprise by his cap
ability and executive ability. He can
visit any department of the mill and
tell by a glance whether or not a man
is doing his work as he should or
whether the machinery is working at
its best. Mr.. Robertson for four years
rode one of the swift carriages that
carry the logs to the saws. He was
a sawyer and filled other positions in
the woods and in the mill. At the
present time one of his brothers, W. L..
Robertson, is a sawyer at the Green
plant is Gilbert Nelson, son of Peter
Nelson, who has charge of the Belmont
Planer.
In Alex S. Reed, general superin-
tendent of the mill and camps at Green
| Point, the Stanley Smith Co. has, ac-
cording to the verdict of lumbermen IN
all parts of the Northwest, one of the
/ best men in the lumber industry. Mr..
/ Reed, a wiry man, of perhaps less
than the average height, solid mass
| of energy, alert and yet possessing
Il quiet reserve, is az years old and has
Il been a lumberman for the past 81
4 years. He began his work with l.. G
Il Stanley, father of Fred Stanley, presi
Il dent of the Stanley Smith Lumber Co
H The present year is his fifth in tht
II position of superintendent at Greer
II Point. Mr.. Reed knows how to get th'
U most work out of his men, and he ha'
their utmost respect. AT Green Poin
: every man has place and is responsl
BILE for it, The loggers and axemeI
4 keep the trees of timber continual.
4 pouring in from the forests, and th
7 big mill is able to run every day to 1T
i capacity. The tree is never still, iron
: the time it is felled until it has beel
s slowed away on the car at Ruthton.
Antoine Lausman, who has been wit
: the Stanley Smith Co., for numbe
: of years and who is bookkeeper an
auditor at the mill offices, prides him
S self on the intercommunicating tele
s phone system that has been installed
= The companys camps and diiferen
Il plants are scattered over an area o
s country l8 miles in length, and yet b
Z the 36 stations of the intercommun
Z eating system, each department is cor
! stantly in touch with every other one
Z The company has three trunk lines int
] Hood River, and is possible at an
e time to communicate with Portland
& The Government forest rangers cor
g template the extension of line
Rainy Lake and have been promise
= the cooperation of the lumber compan
I and the use of their lines.
v One of the logging foremen now {
work in the woods at Green Point
- Robert M. Stone, of this city, who Las
- winter was night officer under Marsh
Ill Rouert T. Lewis. MIR. Stone has b.
Ill come an adept in sending in the hug
HI trees Just felled in the forests. Thrt
camps are now established in Il
II woods and are feeding the big fun
II four feet deep and five feet wide thi
II extends for six miles in the fores
III from the mill. This is the first lo
Hi ging fiume ever built, although tium
III have been used for the transportatiC
Ill of lumber of many years. Huge do
Hi kew engines, some of them welghiT
III as much as q tons, are set at intervs
iii in the woods and the trees as they a
Hi felled are dragged to the fiume sid
III sawed into proper lengths and Dump
HI into the flume. Big frs l50 feet
Ill length are drawn in from deep canyo
HI in this manner, for more than mi
Ill in instances, the choker around q
III small end of the trunk and the re
Ill following and writhing among L
iii stumps of fallen companions ike son
HI enormous brown serpent. The donke
Hi are placed in relays. However,
Jill sooner has the one farthest in q
. woods, called the yarder. dropped the !
- until the cable of another engine
ready to haul it on the way iowa
Ill the fiume.
Ill A man who has served an sppre
II ticeship in a large sawmlll shou
III make a good soldier for he is contln
ally under fire and for ten hours in t
iii day has to use his Drawn and bra
continually. 1t is place where a m
HI cannot sleep or loaf at his tasks. /
II logs are fed into the mill by a hu
endless chain into which are driv
II spikes that impale the fallen monarc
of the forest. They are allowed to T
off on an inclined surface and are OF
II KEEP. from the carriage track by
mechanical device known as the kick
When the sawyer wants to place a
III in the carriage he touches lever Il
releases the kicker and the log rolls
the carriage, the iron arms of
HI kicker flying back in their position
time to catch the log following.
Ill "Nigger," a huge iron arm. ste
III driven, and working with an aim
human intelligence places the log
the desired position on the carrlag
-l The Green Point mill is double B