Here is the second article, from the same newspaper, same date, same page. Did you notice anything about no. 7?
Rhinelander Daily News, May 12 1932, page 2
Logging Days to be Revived by Camp Here
Museum Starting to Take Form on West Davenport Street; Firms Donating "Relics."
Out of a mass of brush, log grass and the graveyard of a miniature golf course, Rhinelander's museum as a memorial to the early loggers of northern Wisconsin is beginning to take form.
The museum, first suggested by County Agent L. G. Sorden, now has the backing of the Legion, Early Settlers and Chamber of Commerce, and the project is receiving co-operative assistance from the city of Rhinelander, Thunder Lake Lumber company, Rhinelander Paper company and the Robbins Flooring company.
A crew of men from the city's unemployed list has been busy on the site for several days, cleaning it up, building stone walks along the mill race, constructing the grade for the spur of narrow gauge track on which an old Thunder Lake engine and train of logging cars will go, and digging a trench for the foundation of the logging camp building.
To Have Logging Train
Thunder Lake will send one of its pioneer engines, "Seven Spot", here within a few days to be placed along the west side of the museum tract. Later two Russell skeleton logging cars and some logs will be brought down from Thunder Lake's camp beyond Three Lakes.
It is likely that Thunder Lake will start bringing some white pine logs down next week for the camp building to be constructed for the museum. The "men's shanty" will be constructed so it can be used as a museum for small tools of the early day logger. It will have "muzzle-loading" bunks at the side--the kind where the lumberjacks crawled into the ends instead of going in from the side.
The musuem committee, which is headed by L. G. Sorden and J. D. Mylrea, needs an old fashioned heater for the shanty, and has been unable to locate one so far. Over this will be built racks on which the 'jacks who will inhabit the camp in fancy only, may dry their clothes after a wet day in the woods.
In the cook shanty, the committee will need a camp range and a hot water barrel. So far they haven't found either one. This part of the camp will be built as were cook shanties in old-time logging camps, but it will be modernized sufficiently so that 40 people actually can be fed at a time.
To Be Ready July 2?
It is hoped to have the cook shanty in operation during Rhinelander's homecoming celebration July 2-5. Hemlock bark will be used to make tanbark paths leading to the museum and various exhibits. Trees and shrubbery will serve to increase the attractiveness of the site.
While many articles for the cammp are being furnished by Thunder Lake, now the only active logging concern in Rhinelander, lumber concerns throughout the north are taking an interest in the local memorial museum.
The Bowler Lumber company of Bowler, near Shawano, has offered a steam hauler for the museum. This was a steam-driven tractor used in the woods to haul trains of sleighs over iced roads in the winter. When gasoline tractors came into existence, they replaced the steam haulers because the gas tractors could be used more easily. There are still a few steam haulers in service in logging camps, but most of them have been replaced by gas tractors. The Bowler firm's steam hauler now is located near Tipler and will have to be brought here.
The Yawkey-Bissell Lumber company of Wausau is donating a batean for the museum. This was a curved-shape boat used in logging drives, and was used on the Rib river for a number of years. It can go down a bad rapids without capsizing, and was used to bring down tools and immediate supplies after the drive had been started down the river.
Ox Yoke and Big Wheels
The I. Stephenson Lumber company of Wells, Mich., is donating an ox yoke used by Isaac Stephenso on the Ford river near Escanaba years ago. The Wisconsin Box company of Wausau and the Sawyer-Goodman company of Marinette are donating sets of "Big Wheels", which were used in hauling logs out of the woods behind oxen.
Mr. Mylrea has photostatic copies of early contracts made by the state with surveyors to run section lines in townships of the northland. Some, for this part of Wisconsin, were let in 1860 and the surveyors, who had to pack their tools and food through the woods from central Wisconsin, then spend their time wading swamps, rivers, and work through the timber in which bears, deer, and Indians were the chief inhabitants, received the magnificent pay of $10 per mile for surveying and settling corner posts.
That they made good money and got their work done quickly if not too well, is shown by some records which show that they surveyed "fast and furious", thus making many mistakes. In fact, Mr. Mylrae recalls that when his firm logged a supposed "forty" near Malvern, they found it contained only three acres.
The museum committee still need a number or articles which must be found to make the logging camp realistic.
They need water tanks, such as were used in building ice roads for winter logging. They are seeking a horse jammer for loading logs, a McGiffert loader, and a travaeau, which, it is explained, is "a little go-devil used to skid a few logs at a time."
[The spelling of batean is as it was found in the article. I think this is synonymous with the more common bateau which is the usual spelling. Perhaps it was just a local usage. Both terms can be found on the web, although bateau is the usual term. -gallon]
