The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-03-23
CHAPTER IIl-centlnued.

CHAPTER lll-contlnued.
Out Of the near gloom, which was
Tightening a bit with dawn the log
trail rose, an aggressive snake'ike
trough climbing uncompromisIngly al
an angle OF SO degrees, It's center
straight pine log sunk TO It's surface,
which was polished like ivory, its
slightly curving sides the same. How
many tapering trunks had gone into
It's two miles would be hard to say, for
in some places they had sunk and
been covered-in the dip, say over the
ridge where the real mountain began.
at the turn where It wound around the
Shoulder.
Before ten minutes Sandry was
breathing heavily though he said
nothing and kept close at Daily's
heels The logger strobe forward and
upward with an easy, climbing lit
that rippled every muscle IN his loose
body. while the man from the cities
strained and heaved in painful labor.
clipping on the wet earth. noundering
In the rotten bark and brush that
lined the way. They climbed beside
The trail. not in II. Ahead Of them the
gang OF men had long since disap-
peared from sight and hearing.
The forenoon that followed was the
opening page in a new chapter Of his
life. and Sandry bent all his faculties
10 a grasp Of outlines.
He stood silently watching the work
60 forward They had reached the
cutting. Here. in a wide dip high
above the world, It seemed to the
fastener was a huge circle Of actiy.
ity Close beside the built trail a sec
ond donkey engine fused and
screamed reaching out uncannily on
ell sides for the great logs, to haul
them IN with screech Of spool and
strain OF cable and turn them over TO
the mysterious steel rope that came
constantly crawling back on It's trav-
cling line This was called the yard
ing engine"-tho one at the foot OF
che trail beside the rollway and the
track being known as the 'roader' %
The monotonous song Of the cross
cut saws had begun where the buck
ers we're converting several hundred
and-ffty-foot trunks into handling
sections.
a little below. two foot-wide planks
some five or six feet long had been set
lnto a giant yellow pine about eight
feet from the ground. one on either
side. and on these two men were stand
Eng. their flannel shirts open al the
throat their sleeves rolled up from
arms OF steel and leather, their heads
bare. Sandry watched the bending Of
their backs, every muscle outlined
under the clingIng shirts, the play Of
their knees. the whole easy ripping
OF their entire bodies with the regular
give and take OF the long saw. Tie
boards, known as springbOards, rose
and dipped with the even motion.
These men were fallers, and pres
emily they would lay the towering
monarch OF the great woods to the
fraction Of an inch in a given place
ready for the buckers, the hook-tender
and the cable.
In the meantime the logs already
down were swiftly stripped Of their
limbs. cut into thirty and forty foot
lengths, rolled into the trail with
peavey and cant hook and sent up and
over the ridge 10 the accompaniment
OF shrill toots from the whistIe,bob
restless cord, the straiuing Of rigging
and the squeaE OF fiber on polished
fiber
The built trail ended here In the
shallow hollow between the first
ridge and the great mountain beyond
though up the face Of the latter Il was
prolonged by a cleared path sharply
defined among the dense growth OF
The timber
He was impressed by the magnitude
OF the country on every hand the
Hitting hills were clothed In trees. close
packed aud Of such girth and height
as to seem almost grotesquely impos.
sible Humanity was dwarfed to in
Significance, like an ant crawling on
a cathedral column.
Sandry looked around. Up to this
distance the woods were dotted with
cuttings where the great stumps
glowed white amid the vivid green
and the debris Of slashings and trim.
mings which combined with the fern
and hazel brush and other under
growth to make q perfect tangle. But
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