The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-04-10

lliam " Difs'n' uf'9'
repuebee division OF the 5 D.
Company. David Howes, pur-
rel cont. william Pooler, mead
ns Nth ". B. Goodrich and A.
.more. visitors, started one gay
nsr h for \ five days trip to the
s a. c,mps on No. 5. From Bing-
!. Somerset Junction, change
R. making close connec-
and \ little more than three
r lido 10 skinner, within a few
Of the Canadian boundary
vsy was along the Moose River
In one place we could look
,,,o the Brassua basin-the ter
hat will be flooded by the new
= dam which is to be built on
Piyer below Brassua lake. At
Pond is smart little village,
ebnrcb and schoolhouse, which
Asen built up about the Kellogg
lhsr tompany's mill. Beyond
man ran be seen the evidences of
,arrihle devastation of the forest
which have ragged in the past
years. Nearly every noun
| eide. once clothed with valuable
growth. now shows wide patch
white snow, from base to sum
The fires have consumed every
including the soil; only the
i rocky slopes remain. Thou
Of acres laid bare, and millions
Dollars gone because some one
sreless with fire.
Skinner a span of horses was
Eug for US, and in a few minutes,
srm fur coats. with warm spreads
N about us, we were on our way
fourteen mile drive. The first
miles was through burned lands,
are growing up to poplar and
birch. then down descending
Ind deeper and deeper into the big
Winding arNnd the iutting
he Lodges at the foot of Tumble
n Mountain, and out through a
A to Rock Pond Farm-the head
hers of the S. d. Warren Com
slumber operations. This farm
deared many years ago by Ira
EVrgis who then owned most of
timber land in this region. 1t
tains about one hundred acres
h nearly level, with Rock Pond
HE east and south. Here the
Warren Company have built up
te village of twenty-four build
including a saw-mill run by a
biHe engine, two frost proof vege-
L houses, where are stored over
thousand bushels Of potatoes, al
tunips, eabbages and other vege-
es which are raised on the farm.
bunk houses will accommodate
t1dred men, there are three barns,
|aCksmth-shop, a small grain
|atOr and hay stOre-house, a bath
wash-house. an Office building, a
|e-bed hospital, cook and eating
BE- supply store-house and sew
separate cabins for the Office
|e scalers and others. Some of
cabins have bath rooms, open
hklin stoves. and rugs on the
h, and all have single beds with
|ng, soft mattress, blankets and
pads. There are three other
BPS, two on Baker stream-one
and the other three miles from
fquarters and one on Gold Brook,
miles distant.
pre- hundred men are employed
PIE season when the bark is run
that is, starting easily from
wood, which is about the first of
/. These laborers are mostly
Rdlans, who come across the line
government permission, returning
n their work is finished.
pc cutting Of pulp-wood proceeds
lelhlng like this: The boss de-
\ upon the territory to be cut
I laying it out by spotting lines
'@s It about four rods apart; the
l'on between each of the two lines
llloted to two men who are to cut
peel all the spruce standing on
y portion They cut notch on
slde OF the tree, as near the roots
possible; then commence saving
! croSs-c1H saw on the other
Of the tree; when the scarf is
' enough they insert iron wedges
'ng them in with a sledge, so that
%aylns Of the tree will not pinch
saw As the saw nears the heart
ne tree 1t begins to CULVER; then
way and with a quivering crack,
'I'lhg roar and Crunching crash
'ueS Tue earth from which it
aug some fifty years ago. No
'uer IS The tree down, than one
y Is trimming the branches close
'Ae trunk the other begins peel