HARDWOOD RECORD 



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iiM; UK JLIK M .MElInUS TE.\1 1'DliAI; Y CAMl'h: 



tering liaudt'ul of inhabitants and farmers 

 along the creek valleys. 



In taking therein the necessary -woodsmen, 

 live stock, locomotives, commissary, supplies, 

 etc., the equipment had to be moved over 

 two mountain ridges on roads that wunhl 

 seem impassable to the average jierson : 

 swamping had to be done; portable mills 

 erected for the making of wooden rails ; 

 camps had to be built, and all the paraiiher- 

 nalia put into action for the felling, skid- 

 ding, railroad building and the transporta- 

 tion to the Russell fork of the Big Sandy 

 River of tlie forty million feet of logs that 

 this company took out in the following ten 

 months. The undertaking was monumental 

 in character, but this same work has to be 

 done over from a new base of operation year 

 by year. 



The poplar has been taken off iifteen thou- 

 sand acres during the past season, and next 

 year it means the stripping of fifteen thousand 

 additional acres to stock the company's mills. 



The tirst picture of this quartette of 

 woods scenes shows a bunch of the com- 

 pany 's big mules just leaving one of the 

 stables for the day 's work. These are the 

 largest and best mules obtainable in the 

 market at St. Louis and cost an average of 

 $275 each. The animals are made up in four- 

 mule teams. 



The large halftone presented on this page 

 shows one of the quickly constructed and 

 semi-temporary camps the company builds 

 as near to the scene of active operations as 

 possible. The entire work requires a perfect 

 army of expert employees, cooks and common 

 laborers. 



The picture inscribed "Scalping the 

 Logs ' ' represents taking the outer bark off 



the big poplar logs, which is done so that 

 rhey may be ' ' snaked ' ' more easily and 

 to avoid the depredation of borers, or of 

 sap-rot in the event that the stick of timber 

 should lie out in the woods over a season. 

 The final picture shows hauling logs to 



one of the numerous skidways alongside 

 the railroad. 



In connection witli present-day cost of 

 poplar operations, it nmy be noted that all 

 items of expense connected with logging have 

 practically doubled iu tlie past ten years. 



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■SNAKING- BIG POri-AUS TO THE SKIUW.iYS 



