Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1918-12-17

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Ensntion wood you're almOat eurs %
Flmrn OF eAckekt, says William Fleming
| tfenoh, IN the January Popular
| Mechanics Magazine. Somehow OF
other be. seems 10 be correlated with
| timber. logging, and the like.
"What do know OF 6ackettP''
qaeried the foreman Of . sprues-felling
camp. 80 go.
"Wsll. one thing. anyhow. TWAS ont
| II tho California redwoods, about ten
| ySars age, that f1rst saw. him. he blew
| Into camp one day; an inqulsItive snip
| Of Z Md with = curiosity lump q. big -
10 pun ball. Back In civilization you
wouldn't notice him in thousand years,
bat ont here In his lumber-jack out6t
bed open your eyes fot sure.s He
[saooped around our camps for . couple
| OF days and than dropped into head
quarters right In the middle Of the fire.
works. Some simpleton had foulsd oar
booming crane and the whole thing had
gone over into the float. Our supsr.
intandent was Irish and literally boiled
over. That didn't fare the mild-msnner.
| Cd Sackett In the least, though. BE
edged through N to the superintendent,
| and then lot drive at him.
"Do you know your men are burning
hundreds Of acres of fine white-oak tim.
berp" he demanded.
"sWho'n ELL OF you?' Murphy
want feeling like answering damu-fool
questions about then.
"Slap! Down went neat little card.
| I caught the name Ssckett, with about
| half the alphsbet tackled on behind
And way down In the left-hand corner
was something about the u. 8. Fores,
Service.
"Murphy WAS still sore. but he chang
ed bis tune after he drank In that card
"'We burn oil fallen timber and under
growth preparatory to taking out The
red wood. The redwood won't burn
you know.
"sAnd how about oil tho fine white
oak that has been felfedp'
"hurphy grunted, and gave . snort
Huh; that's no good. We don't uss
white oak for anything but its bark
Tar. bark oak, We call It. Tho BARK
al been peeled from that stuff-so those
iOko oE0 WOkthtOoos
'"Weil; that little fellow just laughed
right ip the face OF our fre-eating boss,
Then he came back at him, kind o.
pityinglike.
That's your guess, Mr.. Murphy
You people here on the coast are i'm
porting white oak from Japan and ther
telling as it's worthless except for Ii
bark. I've an idea on this subject my
self, however, and intend to stop th'
burning of this wood-if I have Il
get ont an Injunction against every log
ging outfit in the woodS.'"
The big foreman grlnned refectivel!
for An instant, then added:
I'VE quit burning peeled white oai
that season. You know the rest of tn,
story"
| did for Sackett's work IL now know
throughout the whole country.
| q. s. Sackett 10 . naturalization OK
pert to whom wood waste 10 persona
injury, and for years he has fought tbi'
great American evil In fact he ha
solved 90 many problems In wastewoo'
utilization that he is convinced tina
there 10 . use for even the tiniest slive
land he'll undertake to find that use
too. His claim 10 that by prope
methods practically any wood-usinl
concern in the country can cut its wood
bill IN half, and ss proof OF this b
saved for the Chicago, Milwaukee, ant
St. Paul Railway Company half million
dollars on Q single years wood bill
Th:s was accomplished by the use of
score Of d ffsrent methods OF scrsl
utilization and by the proper selection o
wood, based upon specific requirement
of each olses of work.
Here 10 man who has proved sh
Solutely that anyone willing to specialize
and dig TO the very bottom OF any Sub
iect can blaze new trail for industry
for Sackett's methods of wood ssvinI
and wood utilization have introduced
new science to the work-a-day world.