. The vacationers' story of their trip from east to west and home again . nteresting town on the morning of the 11th. PortTownsend has one of the finest of harbors and is the port ofentry to the United States of all ships sailiug the Pacific. Wemet on the streets many men in sailor garb. At Port Townsend we were met by Ned Gardner with hisfathers gasoline launch, Little Dutch, and conveyed throusfhthe straits of Juan de Fuca, and across Discovery Bay to thelogging camp of H. B. Gardner, the well known Minneapolishardware dealer, who three years ago purchased nearly 5000acres of tunberland on t
. The vacationers' story of their trip from east to west and home again . nteresting town on the morning of the 11th. PortTownsend has one of the finest of harbors and is the port ofentry to the United States of all ships sailiug the Pacific. Wemet on the streets many men in sailor garb. At Port Townsend we were met by Ned Gardner with hisfathers gasoline launch, Little Dutch, and conveyed throusfhthe straits of Juan de Fuca, and across Discovery Bay to thelogging camp of H. B. Gardner, the well known Minneapolishardware dealer, who three years ago purchased nearly 5000acres of tunberland on the shore of Discovery Bay. He hasone and three-fourths miles of coast line, making splendidshipping facilities. The boom, or wat^r storage yard forthe logs was pretty well filled with logs, aggregating probablya million and a half feet of lumber. The trees here are mostlyyellow fir and red cedar, and some are of enormous size, treessix feet in diameter at the stump being quite common. Onone of our tramps through the woods we saw a hollow cedarstump 12 feet in The Boom at Camp Gardner, on Discovery Bay off Puget Sound, WasK. Cainp Gardner is the second logging camp in Washingtonto install a Lidgerwood skidder and engine, manufactured bya New York Co., and one of the most up-to-date methods oflogging. The steel cables for hauling in the logs, also forloadiug them, are attached to a spar tree from 50 to 100feet high and operated from above by means of an main hauling line is lengthened or shortened as desiredand -40 acres of land can be cleai-ed at one stand of the don-key engine, as the haul-back cable is 3000 feet long. Afterbeing loaded on flat cars, the logs are canned by engine overa 1\ mile track to the edge of the boom and dumped by theengine and cables into the water. Here they are made upinto sections, or rafts, for shipment. In cutting the largetrees the sawyers first chop into them and drive in springboards on which they stand while sawing. About 2
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