Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-04-13
CRUISING In THE SOUTH.

f. T. Synnott, VIM. Synnott, Els
worth Lille, j. M. Sullivan and Ed.
Nelson arrived home from Jeffries,
La, on Wednesday, after a month
spent in the South looking over a
tract of hardwood timber. Frank
Synnott says that during the entire
which seemed at all spring-like was
on Wednesday, the day they arrived
home. He also says the timber was
red oak, white oak, ash, pecan, hook
berry, persimmon, cypress, red gum,
tupelo, gum, locust, elm, maple and
cottonwood, all of which he says was
very good timber, and Frank knows
what he is talking about.
The South, he says, is different
country in which to work at cruising
than is the North at this time OF the
year, as the Mississippi is high and
and the result is, the side streams
are damned up and the water over
flows on the timber lands for miles
and one has to wade in water all
day, in order to do the estim 2Uing.
In the summer, the country is dry, so
the water does not affect the timber
as it does here, which would be killed
off under like conditions. This was
Mr.. Synnott's first experience in esti-
mating hardwood in the South, so he
had to take man along with him
the first day to tell him the names
of the different kinds of timber.
Then he went into the company's
choppings and found out how the
timber was cut; he then laid out sew
eral acres and scaled the timber upon
it, then estimated a number of acres
in his own way, and thus made sure
of his work the same as has been done
in this vicinity. He says the boys
killed ten snakes, four catamounts,
two chicken snakes, two blue racers,
one whip snake and garter snake.
The rattlers were not ont yet. There
are plenty OF aiigators and they are
from four to nine feet long.
The cruisers found work quite a
little different, down South. When
cruisers go off on an estimating tour
in the north, they pack their own
tent, and put it up; do their own
cooking, make their own beds, etc.
The cooking is done on the outside
without stove. Down South, two
tents are furnished, stoves for cook
ing and heating; two negroes are
sent out with them to do the pack
ing, cooking and chores generally,
and one thing they did which got
the boys into bad habit was the
bringing of cup of hot coffee for
each to drink before getting up in
the morning. This was a great
bracer and it was no wonder that
each wanted to keep up the delight
full innovation, when they got home.
Did they get it-well, it is unneceS-
sary to go into details, but when
anyone says coffee now, in the
hearing of any one of them, there is
something doing jump of ten to
twelve feet is not unusual, neither is
sprint for half block. They are
now down TO their regular habits OF
living and look as if the time spent
in the South had agreed with them
The passenger train on the c y
W. r. r., known as No. 13I, made
up in Milwaukee and which reaches
here at 9:05 a. NJ, was derailed al
Appleton last Tuesday afternoon. c
L. Clark and Engineer rIhomas Han
/ son, firemen, were quite badly scaldec
] and bruised. The two rear coache:
were filled with passengers but aside
| from severe shaking up none wers
injured. The engine was demolished
/ The mail coach was steel and wa:
| damaged but was standing directly
across the track. The baggage coacl
and first passenger coach were off tht
track but upright. The accident wa:
! caused by defective rail.