The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-03-19

know the sgsk Is smaller. bat
g geod, desirable stock for aul
purpose, old gFovta sott woods, o.
hard wd ds ,ither, for that matter
are NOT SO desirable a. rule fot
mall manufactured goods a. ths
syunder young growth u.
n II We're possible for owners ~
wild mountain lands to practice a
system Of forestry by which they
would get tho highos, yaluc
from their holdings. our wooded
lands would constantly Increase IN
value and stiil give valuable IN.
comes So, ! thihk W. need not b.
greatly alarmed 10 see the lumber
callers ctpselt into cash the tim.
her from our mountain lands. Moth.
ing would please me more than 20
see owners Of vi od lots Of any de-
scription take sensible views Of
practical methods U care for an
maintain their Woodlands.
A few days since visited the
mill of the Rich Lumber Co. and
found IL well worth my time to look
over the establishment II shows
what modern business methods will
bring about IN manufacturing lum-
her In my boShood days In the
mill where the Rev Josiah Brown
used TO saw lumber, he had what
was called sash saw, an up
and down arrangement that took its
own time 90 cut through a log !
have heard it said that he would
sc, the min going for cut go and
get his breakfast while It was work
| ing off board | haven't much
doubt OF the truth OF such a state
ment e'ther during low water, for !
have seen the mill running myself
and il was lazy mill As we timed
some of the feats of the band saws
as thkg stripped up a log at the
Ford Bros, mill, II did seem like
progression. For instance, small
log rolled on the carriage would In
me and half minutes be sawed in-
to boards; log ten or twelve inchtsI
IN diameter. fourteen or sixteen
feet long, in two and a half minutes
would be made into two inch ioists
There are about seyeuty-fiye men
at work in and around the mill with
logs coming In by the train load
from the woods nine miles away,
with two powerful engines driving
the machinery and every possible
device TO tighten human labor Is
used
A log comes in on the slip, an
almost human acting arm reaches |
~ and rolls Il onto the carriage |
where it is turned over in iiffey |
the carriage races back and forth, |
large band-saws slice the lumbei |
off aud the lumber hardly stop |
motion from the time the log moves
out of the water, which Is warmed |
by the exhaust steam, until II Is
loaded onto the trucks at the larthe
end of the mill. II Is worth the |
time of any of our interested citi-
zels to take little time to see |
the modern ways of numbering, Or |
course you are taking something |
from tile soil taking something OF
value from the towns. and so are
the farmers taking from the soil, but
IL is commonly known that the farm
er who raises the biggest crops and
who has tho biggest crops to sell
has the finest cattle TO sell and ship,
brings In the cash to be distributed
I'm the town, and so these lumber
companies set in circulation largt
sums Of money yearly for labor and
food stuffs through the town, there
by giving people who are glad OF
good paying jobs, a chance to pay
good prices for the farmers pro
iufs. III is simply a business od
labor into cash by way
# trading products for cash with
HE addition OF the use OF capital
md business acumen Supplying
,eople who need our products away
rom Manchester bringing back cash
which means local market for our
armer friends In this vicinity II
here was no market for lumber out
ide OF our town what would our
woodlands be worth?
EBER l.. TAYLOR,
Manchester depot, Vt.
March 10, 19rA.