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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10, 1919 



THE CA.MI' TERMINUS OF TIIK "CENTIPEDE & SNOW ROAD" 



Wisconsin Loggers^ Meeting 



Many oaiiie liiit few were frozen, even though it was tliirty 

 degrees below zero, for those northern lumberjacks seem to get 

 rugged and lusty on such mild perversions of Boreas. The occa- 

 sion was the acceptance of Geo. N. Harder 's invitation to the 

 Northern Wisconsin Loggers' Association, to hold its semi-annual 

 meeting at Eib Lake, Wis., the home of the Rib Lake Lumber Com- 

 pany, of which he is 

 president. 



The logging roail 

 connecting Eib Lake 

 with the town of 

 Chelsea on the main 

 line of the M., S. P. 

 & a Ste. M. rail- 

 road, a distance of 

 approximately nine 

 miles, reached the 

 acme of its rough 

 and ready glory on 

 the evening of Feb- 

 ruary 26, for on that 

 evening some twenty- 

 five of Wisconsin 's 

 logging pioneers 



AFTER DINNER THE WHOLE rfUNCII WAS READY FOR THE WOODS 



liounded over its higli centers and low joints, in the ju'ivate car of C. E. 

 Urbalnis of Stevens Point, Wis., superintendent of the northern district 

 of the Soo Line, a genial, generous gentleman who stands ace high 

 with the northern Wisconsin lumber producers. As the speed of 

 the special at no time was in excess of sixty miles per hour, the 

 party arrived safely at Rib Lake, and at the hotel joined with 



a few who had pre- 

 viously arrived. The 

 liotel had never be- 

 fore catered to such 

 a large crowd of 

 large men, apparent- 

 ly, and the lack of 

 beds necessitated a 

 doubling up, which 

 rather seemed to en- 

 liance the camarad- 

 eiio. 



Wednesday morn- 

 ing all were up 

 liright and early, for 

 on Mr. Harder 's list 

 f entertainments 

 was a journey to the 



LOG STORAGE ON FROZEN RIB LAKE 



OE'R THE HILL AND THROUGH THE WOODS TO CAMP 



