Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-03-20

ID formed that makes the TRANSPORTATION of the
timber matter of comparatively minor consider
alton.
However, many large logging at work
in the pineries telling timber which will later on
find it's way to the sorting skids for winter
wholly without freezing weather has
place in the memory of the oldest lumberman
operator in the pine forests.
The days of the "lumberjack" as the pictur-
esqueIy clad figure in brantly-hued mackinaws
is familiary known, are practically numbered so
far as od>time numbering in the northern woods is
concerned, No longer will the hardy woodsman
return in the spring time from 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 accommoda
ton of man and beast during the terms of wrest
ing building material from the bosom of the virgin
forests in the midst of frigid winter season. In
few localities will the woods resound with the
sharn 'spat" of the axman's implement it 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
"Chuck's ready
Things have undergone change in the pi-
neries.
In the old days the men were at the call OF
the camp foreman long before the opening of the
logging season, and many remained In tentative
onnnlov-or at least had the refusal of position
Tho year round Competition keen and spr-
tied for the acquisition of axmen who had at
t,ined reputations for skill in their particular
line of work while teamsters, canthook men,
brushmen and cooks were also sought according
20 their efficiency in their respective capacities
And vases we're pretty fair in those days, too
kxmen received all the way from $50 20 $50 a
month and board, and were not unduly anxious to
disnose of their services even at those figures.
Tha ordinary Jacks were paid from $50 to $50
"a $40 n month and board while the cookie
Was the foeerunner of the baseball holdout star
% tba nresent day A good man who had the
renutation OF being able to provide the most salts
tving lumber camp ration at a minimum of ex-
nanse to his employer was able almost to name his
ov,n erures-s100 a month"; with one and some
,;r,es two assistants slush cooks, being willingly
paid to many of these food Juggiers IN Mihheso'a'
Wisconsin and northern Michigan.
Today the scene is changed Inc ak Is sup
nlanted by the saw, and by this mode OF pro-
cedure the pine monarchs are felied IN Iracuoh
OF the time required formerly. Inc huge trunks
are denuded of their branches. and the logs are
scaled and 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
a succeeded by brawny-armed wlelders OF the
saw, the work of which is far from requiring