The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-06
FIND MORE WOOD
City Accepts Offer of 700 Cords
From Valley Falls.
Committee Believes Willard
Prices Are Too High.

The general committee which is
handling the municipal wood yard
project today accepted an offer from
man in Valley Falls 10 supply To-
peka with 700 cords of wood at Sc a
ton, freight prepaid. This wood will
be sold to the people of the city at
about $3.50 a ton, according to Com
missioner W. s. Hancock. The logs
will be cut Into sixteen-inch lengths.
Santa Fe officials at the meeting as
sured the committee that sufficient
cars to transport the fuel could be
obtained. The Valley Falls operator
says he can put 100 men in the tim
bcr at once and will be ready to be-
gin deliveries Tuesday.
The committee also accepted an Of
fer from John r. Carter, 1906 West
Sixteenth street, who owns a farm 10
miles south of Topeka on the Burlin-
game road. He will furnish the. city
with all the wood it will cut at 90
certs ton.
The committee on wood is COM
prised of the following: w. o. Ander-
son, chairman; Fred Noiland. Tom
Whiker. j. e. Wilson, Fred Rogers,
Y. F. Synder, W. S. Hancock, L. A.
Derby and H. J. Corwine.
Willard Price High.
Members of the committee of busi-
ness men and city officials, have de-
cided that J eSS Wizards price Of $5
per ton in the timber is too high. Ac-
cording to Commissioner Hancock.
Jess Willard will come to Topeka late
this afternoon to attend a meeting in
which it will be attempted to secure
the wood from Willard at 81 per ton.
The agreement of So a ton was made
hastily and without careful consider
alton. 1t was the opinion of commit
tee members that Willard will have
no disposition to hold up the price.
Fifty woodchoppers left the city hall
this morning for Jess Wizards farm.
other men are going there from other
places and a number of men are per-
manently camped in the logging dis
trict.
Find More Wood.
Volunteer loggers are coming to To-
peka from Kansas City, Beloit. Scotts-
Vile and Clyde. They had volunteered
for work in the coal fields. but. being
unable to get placed there now, OFFER
cd to help out by welding an ak.
w. +. Tandy Volunteers.
W. l.. Tandy, eX-commfssioner, this
morning offered his services as a
wood chopper 1'andy is said to know
how to handle an ak
O. G.. Wright, manager of the local
branch of the International Harvester
COMPANY. informed Commissioner
Hancock this morning that in case the
city was attempting To get out WOOu
for the poor as a charitable measure,
he had told all of his thirty men they
we're subject ito being called out by
the commissioner and that in case they
we're called to the timber. their pay
would go on just the same.
one Topekan has loaned buzz saw
90 the city. to be used at the municipal
Yards to saw up wood. The Inter-
actioral Harvester company has
leaned a gasoline engine to run the
s2w.
Hancock was informed this morning
nat the county commissioners Will
Ike over " hatever wood was left on
ne city hands in the spring.
First wood Delivered.
The first load OF wood from the VIII
rrd farm was delivered Friday to
IFS. w. A Haskins, 015 Lincoln
street Il was paid for at the rate
of sS a ton There was some; hing less
than a cord in the truck. There is
little more than two tons to cord of
,,ood.
Axes and saws we're donated TO the
clty Friday by number of citizens.
seventy woodsmen out of To-
peka were swinging axes or pushing
saws in Wizards tree garden Friday
afternoon The various city depart
ments contributed axes.
In the opinion of w. o. Anderson,
the expense of getting stumps out on
he Mum tract would make it i'm
practicable to work that district for
lire wood.