The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-05-15
BELLOWS FALLS.
LONG SEASON IN RUNNING LOGS.
River Not L1Ksly to Re Clear Until
Pall-Big Purchase of Pulp Wood.

River Not IlEely to Be Clear Until
Pall-Big Purchase of Pulp Wood.
The present prospect is that the log
drivers will have an unusually hard
and long season and that the naviga-
ton Of the river above here will be IN
terfercd with longer than usual. The
Connecticut Valley Lumber company $
drive has not gotten out of the small
streams in the north part of the states
and little Of it has started down the
Connecticut. What logs are struggling
along are being held at the boom in
McIndoes Falls. 1t is not probable
that any OF them viii reach Bellows
Falls until much later than usual, on
account of low water in the small
streams. -.-...-
The logs of the International Paper
company which are coming from the
north part of Windsor county arF
strewn all along both the Connecticut
and White rivers and the water is
rapidly falling Monday the rear of
the drive was about 10 miles above
Bethel and moving only about half a
mile a day, with the full force of the
drivers at the rear, none being rolled
of or kept off the banks farther down.
OF the two million feet which broke
out Of the boom at Sharon the last of
March it is estimated that about $780,
600 feet passed here and VIII be pick
ed up and used by the Connecticut
Valley company. The booms have
been stretched across the river over a
month. 1t is thought by officials that
/ the rear will not reach here before
July !. Probably as soon as the Inter
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from the head waters Of the Connecticut
viii begin passing, so the prospect j.
slim for d clear river until we'll toward
fall.
/ At the present time the booms are Sc
arranged that boats may pass them and
/ viii be kept so. There are but few log,
| running to impede boating now and pow
CT boats can 60 well toward Windsor
The flash boards have been put on the
dam this week for the first time thi.
year. and q number of inches Of watel
is flowing over them, giving plenty d
power.
The International Paper company ha,
made a new contract Tor wood for pulp
1t has bought in New Brunswick a larg,
amount of wood ali cut and barIled read,
for the grinders This is being shipped by
boat into Portland and then loaded int,
cars and shipped here Being short am,
small, they will be thrown into tn
cars. and the contract is for 400 cords
week during the summer, making ab0u
a train load each week. This preparing
Of the wood in the provinces, with thei
cheap rates OF labor. will make much dil
ference with the local employment O
help to prepare the wood, which Away
, has been done here.
Much interest is manifest here in tn
results of the present tariff legislatio
at Washington. As it looks now the Il,
suit upon the pulp and paper industr
= here will be disastrous. With this Ne,
! Brunswick contract, and what is comm
down the river, the amount OF stoc
planned for Bellows Falls IS larger tina
in former years. Nearly all the loc.
mills are curtailing their production
paper, the market demand being less an
there being no wish OF the manufacturer
to accumulate finished stock as Is ofte
done, for no one can tell the future pril
at which it cais be sold