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Show StPT. THURSDAY, 197 12, The Only One Handloggers1 Among Least Sung Heros Some of the least-sunheroes of the American frontier were those hardy men who, even after mechanization was possible, preferred to harvest the big timber of tiie Nortli Country on their own, making their living from the unusual and challenging one-ma- n logging operation called handlogging. A procedure that could be used only in steep hillside country like that found in rugged Southeastern Alaska spends a whole chapter describing how handlogging worked for him, and it is a fascinating lesson in how a man can use natures power rather than inventing his own. Jackson writes: g and British Often I was asked why I didn't use power. I do use power," I would I use the two answer. greatest powers on earth, gravity and the tides.. water. There they were bound into rafts to be towed to a mill. Handlogging" is a lost art today, but we can get a glimpse of what it was like in a new action-packe- d book by one of the best men in the trade--H. Jackson, known all over Southeastern Alaska as Jackson." Handlogger e family friend Ethel Dassow, is a fascinating glimpse into a couples 43 years of adventure, living in the wilderness of Alaska and British Columbia. But more than that, it is' the best record available of what is. Jackson handlogging long-tim- The mourning dove hatch and rear two to broods of young each depending on the extent northward migration. two eggs are laid at nesting. DOWNATA I, if DswMf, Maks Fim FacSitiM tar l(MisM SkaRj Pkak Area Part Mara Haitr CtuiiM SaN a Naat Open 12 noon . Clestd Pkim at ' Collect WiH Pick Up Cattle, Hogs And Simp Far Proccssiiv For The Finest from the publisher. by Box 99509. A thats &W DEVERE HARRIS "YOUR -- (ta lattiailaS Mfi-227- 4 liaaacul nik aar iamtauat Na j. We've Got Lots Of Trucks. 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Pork - Whole or Halt Lambs published Ida- Snow, who carried Senate Joint Resolution 114 through the Idaho legislature earlier this year, noted that the state's voters will have an Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, will be great fun. Its available at bookstores or for $4.95 plus 50 cents postage and handling BUY - PRESTON ' couple happily survived a rugged 43 years of wilderness living or just in some darned good reading, Coyotes sometimes go into the water after fish, fogs they hAvrt&etF sfen(3 fishing for trout through holes in the ice. f Packing Co. 152-17- 4 petitive disadvantage to hos business and industry." adise is done upside down on a brancli. s Phom -- may three Prince Rudolph Bird of 10 p.m. Oa Saadijs II7-S7- of Citizens for a Clean Idaho, a statewide group supporting passage of the referendum. Found The courting dance of the - HOT SPRINGS DOWNATA control pollution Briefs SWIM & PICNIC AT NiflMt SSSa of assistance through legislation," State Senator Orval Snow (Dem. Latah) said. The lack of this type of assistance presents a com- One tall spruce I fell . . . down and struck in Jackson's new book, called simply IIANDLOGGERS and written with the help of 1 MHm form ran ninety feet of water, drove 22 feel into the bottom, and stuck fast. For a lifter on that one I used a log 120 feet long and four feet in diameter, which I fastened on at low tide. The tides worked on it for two weeks before the big spruce came free. The handy part of such an operation was that, once I got the lifter in place, the tides worked nights and Sundays and while I was fishing and they never submitted a bill. For anyone interested in learning about an unusual method of harvesting timber or in learning how one grossing in all surrounding states," he said. Snow and Representative Joe McCollum (Rep.-Twi- n Falls) are Idaho is the only state remaining to provide some work best for him are the secrets of the handlogger's trade. On the steep mountainside, it is gravity that brings the big logs roaring down out of the woods. When they drive into the water and stick fast on the bottom, it is the tides, properly harnessed. that pull them free. Columbia, WHITE HAM) made baby sweater lost at fair grounds. GarPlease call land. U)ST LAKT week in the Trcmontnn area, one wallet! Nice reward offered by owner for person finding and reluming all contents. Call Eph Jensen, 257-724- How to make these powers handlogging" involved falling trees on precipitous hillsides with such skill that they plunged directly into salt water below or roared down the slope torpedo-lik- e til they skidded into the & Found A st Whole 9 ALL CURRENT SEASON! SUITS IN THE LATEST STYLES. COLORS, FABRICS! 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