Pege Alb. The Herald, Thursday, April 16,.19¢)

Logging beyan aloug the Skegna “River when
cordwood was needed for steampowered stern

wheelers. The next boost to the industry came with -

the railroad, and the need for rail tes, _

In 106, a small lumber tie-cutting mill was built
in ihe Terrace area and was the first sawmill in the
district. .

Hemlock, spruce, cedar and lodge-pole pine were
the most common trees. The logs were huge, and
trees were felled by two men using a cross law.

Horses dragged the logs until the first logging truck

was introduced in 1922.

Terrace mills produced cedar shingles, boom logs
and straight grained Sitka Spruce for airplanes
during World War 1. At one time Terrace was
known as the “Cedar Pole Capital of North
America."

Fires were a coustant threat in the early days of |
the logging industry. if they got out of hand there

Adella Fable in her book, Plenceriag tn Twe

Worlds, recalls a fire which threatened one of Carl -

Poble’s first mills built near Hazelton and the way it
was fought:

Back of the mill were huge piles af logs which -

were piled up during the winter's logging. After the
mill stopped for the day, Jack and Carl would roll
some of these logs to the mill for the next day’s
sawing. While they were doing this one evening in
spring just as the sun was going down past the mill, ~~
TE happened te look out while preparing the supper, —
thinking that it wes rather unusually bright outside.
Then I heard a crackling and ran out on the porch ©
and saw that the mill was indeed on fire in the boiler

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. room. Icalledout fo the men rolling logs: “The mill
is on fire. The mill is burning,” Thinking I was

’ calling for supper, they called back, ‘Okay, we'llbe
- .there in a few minutes.” But I kept yelling, and. ;
because of that they did stop to take notice of what --—[-

was happening. About the same time, the men in
the bunkhouse, aroused by mf yelling, ran out and

saw thefire. It'was a tough fight, but they put it out ,
with buckets of water. Quite abolehadbeenburned - |.
in the roof. If the. men had come a few minutes

tater, it would have been too Late. -

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