The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-08-23
CUTTING TIMBER
ON LARGE SCALE
Realty Company to Operate
In This County IL to
Is Years
ADDITIONAL MEN
REACH TOWN TO-DAY
Six Camps Already established, Employ
ing from 500 to 400 Men and so
Horses-Min Being Erected on Lis
com Farm Below This Village.


Horses-MiI Being Erected on Lis
com Farm Below This Village.
Sixteen men arrived in Brattleboro
this forenoon from New York on
their way to Jamaica to be employed by
the American Realty Co., a branch of
the international Paper Co. Every few
days a number of men arrive here for
the same purpose and are soon absorbed
by the lumber camps which the company
is maintaining in Windham county with
Jamaica as center
Few persons realize the magnitude of
the operations of this concern in get
| ting out pulp wood in this county
Little has been said about the work but
lit has increased gradually since it was
begun year or more ago, and at the
lpresent time between 300 and 400 men
are employed, besides 80 or more horses
The company has six camps. the prin-
| cipal one and the headquarters being at
Jamaica, at which town supplies arrive
in carload lots and are distributed by
tote teams to the various camps,
everything being done in well-ordered
Isystem
| The timber, after being cut into four
foot lengths, is put into the tributaries
Iof West river at the proper time and
tioated to the mouth of the river where
it is doomed. That which was hoated
ldown last spring is being moved down
the Connecticut in raft-like bunches. the
short sections being surrounded by long
Hogs fastened together At the Iscon
farm on the Hinsdale side of the river
they are doomed, being held there until
the completion OF 4 mill now being erect
ed near the river to remove the bark
From there the wood will be shipped in
ears to pulp mills.
1t Is expected that operations in this
county will cover a period of II to |.
, years, so it Is easy to see that the aggre
, gate amount of timber which it i.
planned to cut is tremendous. r.
Weston is the general superintendent
and at present he and other men are
quartered in the cottage on the Eator
place, which the company bought, look
, ing after the work of moving the timber
from the mouth of West river to tn,
Liscom farm and the erection of tn,
mill. Mr.. Davis is the travelling bos
at Jamaica and Harry Hill is clerk at tn,
Jamaica office, which is located on tn
Henry Sage farm, which the compan,
bought
At the present time six camps hav
been established. One known as tn
lWindham camp is on Turkey Mountain
: brook in Jamaica. The fourfoot length
tnI
!. TO West river, entering the river abov
n East Jamaica.
e The South Wardsboro camp is thre
: miles from Rock river, otherwise know
0 as the East Dover branch, which neces
states a three mile haul. The timber
S placed in Rock river at Brookside, be
r tween South Newfane and East Dover
and floats six miles to West river at vii
/ Evansville station.
e Over the Jamaica line in Stratton
t another camp, where the wood has to b
h hauled a mile or two to Ball Mountai
e brook at Pixies Falls. From there
floats five miles to West river at ia
e maica.
: On Winhall river, two miles west q
t Bondville, there is a camp on the Ker
D dali farm. A short haul there takes tn
t "'oi " W IlNtI EIOHl tHtit
l. runs seven miles to West river at VIII
t hall station.
Two miles farther up the Winhall ri,
er is another camp and a mile beyon
that is another, both being near I'll
river, the distance from West river bein
= about nine miles in one instance an
about 10 miles in the other
The trees cut are principally spruc
hylt olrtIn nt,
II poplar Everything is cut that wi
IS make stick four feet long and fot
ia inches through at the top, in fact SON
y, is cut that is smaller than that. Thu
n which was cut last fall could not
Is peeled, on account of the sap beir
dried up. That is what is being fioatt
r down past this village now. The timb
n cut the past summer has been peelt
al ON the ground and left to be cut ,
ne later. That which is cut the comil
at fall and winter will be fioated down
es the mill with the bark on, because
at cannot be easily removed
After as much as possible has be,
is peeled the work of yarding the logs W
ng be taken up and then they will be G
", into short lengths, before snow comes.
he Men have been busy all summer bull
ed ing sleds so that just as soon as there
IN shedding the short lengths will be sic
We ded to the banks of the streams, to
left until the ice goes out in the sprif
ed The company takes advantage of hi
re water, as at other times it is diffic,
HI to float the product down the shallC
r. streams.
IN, The concern has Just bought of NJ.
th Wheeler the Benoni Sage place in j
maica where there is a large amount