Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1918 — MANY CORDS WOOD SECURED [ARTICLE]

MANY CORDS WOOD SECURED

About One Hundred Loads Ready for the Buzz Saw. Rensselaer’s wood-choppers have been doing good work and as a result of their labors Friday and Monday they have about one hundred loads of wood to relieve the situation in Repsselaer should the coal shortage become serious. The wood is being hauled to town as rapidly as possible and taken to the former Grant-Warner lumber yards where it will he sawed and stored. The wood-choppers did not go to the Stockton timber as was previously announced, but to the Vance Collins woods in the same vicinity. The reason for the change in plans, as The Democrat is informed, was that by paying 50 cents a load to Mr. Collins the wood-cutters were privileged to take the forest-run timber, while at Mr. Stockton’s they were to take only the down wood. Those in charge of operations felt that 50 cents a load was cheap enough considering the advantages to be ijiad in taking the standing timber. . It is estimated that about forty men went to the timber Monday and put in the day handling the ax and saw. Several others put in the day with teams and about thirty loads of wood were hauled to town. The loads will average about a cord of four-foot wood each, which means that in the two days over 300 cords of stove-length wood was secured.