The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-03-21
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is formed that makes the transportation of the
timber a matter of comparatively minor consider
alton.
However, many large logging crews are at work
in the pineries telling timber which will later on
find it's way to the sorting skids, for a winter
wholly without snow or freezing weather has no
place in the memory of the Oldest lumberman or
operator in the pine forests.
The days of the "lumberjack,' as the pictur-
esquely clad figure in brilliantly-hued mackinaws
is familiary known, are practically numbered, SO
far as old+time numbering in the northern woods Is
concerned. No longer will the hardy woodsman
return in the spring time from a winters sojourn
in the fastness of the pine timber, his pockets
lined with from 800 to $500 hard-earned money,
and proceed to cut a wide swath in the midst of
the clusters of tall buildings which intercept his
progress southwark.
In few localities will the foremen of logging
crews assemble his men and teams and set out for
INDICATED camps in the pine woods of the north,
building wanegans and stables for the
ton of man and beast during the terms of wrest-
ing building material from the bosom of the virgin
forests in the midst of a frigid winter season. In
few localities win the woods resound with the
sharp "spat' of the aXman's implement as 1t bites
into tree after tree, from the rising to the setting
of the sun, and in few camps will be heard the
familiar and always welcome call of the cook,
"Chucks ready"
Things have undergone a change in the pt-
neries.
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the camp foreman long before the opening of the
logging season, and many remained in tentative
employer at least had the refusal of position
the year round. Competition was keen and spir-
tied for the acquisition of aXmen who had at
tanned regulations for skill in their particular
line al work, while teamsters, canthook men,
brushuen and cooks we're also sought according
to tksir efficiency in their respective capacities.
And wages were pretty fair in those days, too.
Ax1aen received all the way from $50 to STD a
mog,th and board, and were not unduly anxious to
dinnose of their services even at those figures.
Ts,e ordinary Jacks" were paid from $5 to S35
AID $40 a month and board, while the cookie
VAS the forerunner Of the baseball holdout star
OF the present day. A good man who had the
5Aputation of being able to provide the most salts
tying lumber camp ration, at a minimum OF ex-
nense to his employer was able almost to name his
own fgures-$100 a month, with one and some
times two assistants "slush cooks" being willingly
paid to many of these food jugglers in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and northern Michigan.
Today the scene is changed. The ak is sup
planted by the saw, and by this mode of pro-
cedure the pine monarchs are felled in a fraction
of the time required formerly. The huge trunks
are denuded of their branches, and the logs are
scaled ana whisked to sorting skids where they
are loaded on freight trains and transported to the
mills in less time than was formerly necessary to
get them to the river where they were formed into
brails and made up into RATS to be transported in
tow OF a steamer to the saw mills.
The axman Is no longer lord of the realm. He
is succeeded by brawny-armed wielders OF the
saw, the work of which is far from requiring a