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HomeMy WebLinkAbout00104198 (Claim of National Paper Products Co. continued) The conmunicationseadd documents referred to in the foregoing communication "as Exhibits" are herewith set forth, an followet C 0 P Y Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., 216 Market St., San Francisco, California.. Gentlement- EXHIBIT "A" November 22, 1929 Attention Executive Department j Rot Future Damage to Port Townsend Pipe Line and Increased Cost of Lagging Across It. After going over,;the Port Townsend Pipe Line situation with our Superintendent and Engineer, and giving the matter a great deal of thought, the writer wishes to submit the following report and facts regard. ing it. To date we have logged approximately four million fact of loge across the pipe lino, and there re- mains 7,100,000 feet yet to be taken across it with conditions ahead of us much more difficult than those we have had. Even with the extraordinary care and expense on our part in trying to avoid damages to the pipe we have been unable to prevent some serious breaks. It is doubtful if very much of the remaining timber can be taken across the pipe at all without considerable additional expense. This is due to the steep and rooky nature of the ground and the pipe not being buried but merely placed on top of a shelf covered with a sprink- ling of dirt. Attached is a map showing the relative location of the pipe line, the logging railroad and the tim- ber which would have to be taken across the pipet also sketches shaming a profile drawn to scale of just how the pipe line looks stench crossing place for each separate area of timber, and the direction of the skidder or donkey landing to which it is to be taken. Another problem is that the timber yet to come lies away from the track and from reach of the skid - der or high leads, and, therefore, has to be cold-dooked and dragged over the pipe lino. All the timber ta- ken across the pipe line to date has been be means of the skidder making it possible in many cases to suspend the logs in mid -air from the sky lines when over the pipe line. Where the loge have to be cold docked, or taken in with the high lend, it is not possible to keep them off the ground. We thought it boat to make a separate outline for each area of timber to come across the pipe and the landing to which it was to be taken, and to show the particular situation in each cane; and also what could be done to safeguard the pipe lino better with come additional expense and planning. Landing No. 46 - Spur No. 71 The timber here has to be cold decked and taken to the landing with the skidder and Tts skyline. Nothing can be done to change the situation here; the excessive cost of a rail road into thin area would not be justified for the small amount of timber. The amount of timber to be taken out here will be 800,OD0 foot, and the additional coat of building up around the pipe line and safeguarding i as much as in reasonably possible will be $1.20 per M feet, or $960.00. Landin No. 28t It has been planned to high lead direct 700,000 feet of this timber and to cold j deck the other 600,0 . Investigations show that it will be next to impossible to take any of this timber across the pipe line to the landing to which it should be taken. The two alternatives would be either to leave the timber standing, or take out sections of pipe for abouttwo weeko'time. By double cold decking it either to Landing No. 54 or No. 57, it would not need to cross the pipe line at all. The additional cost of this would bos Double cold decking 700,000 ft. 0 $5.00 per M - $4,500.00 Dcabled oold decking 600,OD0 ft. 0 $2.60 par M - $1,560.00 $5,060.00 j Landing No. s 200,000 foot of this would be high loaded across the pipe line, and 400,000 cold 65 decked across t, and o damage to the pipe would be very great. By re -cold docking 400,000 ft. and taking it to landing No. 53 with the ekidder, we can avoid crossing the pipe line. The added cost of this would be $2.75 per M an 400,000 ft, or a total of $1,100.00. Landin s Noe. 30 and 311 Coming to Landing No. 30, 1,600,000 would be yarded direct across the pip line, and to Land ng o. 31, 400,000 ft& would be yarded direct, and 1,000,000 ft. cold docked. By taking off with a switohback from the northeast corner of Section 33, and building 2,000 feet of additional railroad at a coat of 35,000.00, plus 300,000 feet to be cold decked to the railroad at an added coat of $3.00 per M. or $900.00, we could avoid taking thin timber across the pipe line. Landing No. 64 - Spur No. 11 feet would be h3.gh leaded d rest, sad 700,OD0 feet cold decked. This offers an almost impossible situation insofar as,:damage to the pipe line is concerned, and every pull across the pipe would break it. Either this timber must be left standing, or to avoid hauling it over the pipe lino altogether, it would be necessary to double the cold dock it and take it to Landing No. 46 on Spur No. 7j the added cost of which would be $5.20 per M or 15,200.00. There would be some increased breakage duo to the double handling over rough ground, whit is not included in the above coat. Landing No. 731 The 500,000 foot here will have to come across the pipe line in any event. By soli docking it first and then taking it across the pipe line by moans of a high lend skyline, the crossing being in one place for all this timber, the possibility of damaging the pipe line•.can be considerably reduced. It would be necessary to build up and crib around the pipe line to protect it. The added coot for all of this i, protection would be - 6DO,OD0 ft. at 1.76 - $875.00. j Summary of the above additional oostes- ILanding No. Footngo Total Additional Cost over I Ordinary Way of Logging 46 800,000 ft. $ 960,000 j 28 1,300,000 5,060.00 65 600,000 1,100.00 30 k 31 2,900,000 5,900.00 �i 64 1,000,000 �I 73 b, 876.00 li b00,000 676.00 Total 7,100,000 ft. $19,115.00 V I I j 199 Averagg:oost;ppr M - $2.70, the additional coat an timber to come across the pipe line. It will be noted that by means of additional expense, all but portions of the 'timber at landings Nos. 46 and 73 can be logged so as to avoid crossing the pipe at all. This added expense in these two landings would not be necessary if the pipe line were buried below the ground. Even with such additional protection, one could not guarantee that there would be no damage to the pipe line; with heavy loge coming across it there is always a possibility of something happening to cause damage. If it is decided to leave some of the tLnber standing, we believe it should be worth $11.00 per thou- sand feet. Along with the stumpage price should be added the increased value due to the establishment of log dumps, camps, railroads, equipment, eto., all in plane ready to serve this timber. We had hoped to submit this report to you sooner, but it has taken a considerable amount of exhaus- tive investigation to get all of those areas definitely planned out ahead, and then in turn to check over and make aurvoys to find out which other ways the timber could be taken out so that the pipe line would suffer the least damage. We plan to fell and buck most of the cold dock settings this winter so no to have them logged off before the dry season sate in, and, therefore, should know in about four weeks what to plan on, whether to leave the timber or log it as outlined. ' Yours vary truly, CHAS. R. MCCORMICK LUMBER CO. By P. E. Proydig (Signed) Logging Manager ' EXHIBIT-"B" C 0 P Y March 15, 1930 Mr. IT. J. Sadler, City Engineer, Port Townsend, Washington Dear Mr. Sadlers Confirming this morning's conversation with Mr. Lammers and yourself, we are enclosing copy of proposed agreement with -the Chao. R. McCormick Lumber Company in connection with pipe line easement over their property, which you desire for proper presentation of facts to the City Council at next Tuesday's meeting. Awaiting your further advisee in this matter, we are Yours very truly, NATIONAL PAPER PRODUCTS COMPANY Enclosure (Signed) A. B. Lowenstein Resident Manager. EXHIBIT "C" A G R EE M E N T. THIS AGREEMENT, Made this loth day of April 1930, between CHAS. R. MCCORMICK LUMBER CO. OF DELAWARE, a corporation, hereinafter called the "Lumber Company" and NATIONAL PAPER PRODUCTS COMPANY, a corporation, hereinafter called the "Paper Company" W I T N E S S E T H s WHEREAS on the 24th day of April, 1928, the Lumber Company by an instrument now an record in Vo- lume 96 of Deeds at page 307 Records of Jefferson County, Washington, granted to the City of Port Townsend, Washington (hereinafter sometimes called the "City") a certain easement to construct and maintain a pipe line over certain property belonging to the Lumber. Company, and WHEREAS in Paragraph 3 of said easement it was provided that the pipe line should be buried to such a depth as will proto3t the pipe line against damage because of logging operations of the Lumber Company, which provision the City of Part Townsend in some instances has not complied with, and WHEREAS the Paper Company has loaned said pipe line from the City for a period of years and is interested in the continued operation of the same without damage thereto or resulting interruption of ser- vice, and WHEREAS the Lumber Company is willing to expend certain sums of money to protect the pipe line at certain designated points as more fully appears on Exhibit " attached to this contract, and the Paper Company is willing to reimburse the Lumber Company for such expenses on the terms pratided;•.heroin, NOW THEREFORE IT IS AGREED as followst 1. The Lumber Company will install the protection shown on Exhibit A, for the purpose of pro - tooting the pipe line from damage in the course of its logging operation. 2. The Paper Company will reimburse the Lumber Company for all such sums as the Lumber Company shall expend pursuant to Paragraph 1 above, as and when the same are expended by the Lumber Company, not ox- sending an aggregate amount of $10,375.00. 3. The Lumber Company for itself, its successors and assigns, agrees that said pipe line may be maintained by the City throughout the period of the easement above referred to, as now installed and with- out further compliance by the City with paragraph 3 of said easement by way of burying said pipe line. 4. In the event og breaks in the pipe line, the Paper Company will, in so far as it is reason- ably possible, make repairs at a time when the repair operations will least conflict with the Lumber Com- pany's operations, such ropaire to be at the expense of said Paper Company. 5. In case of repairs, the Lumber Company will at the expense of the Paper Company, expedite over its railroad line, transportation of men and materials to make such repairs, in so far as it can do so without unreasonable interference with its own operations. 6. In the event of a break in the pipe lino causing interruption of the Lumber Company's opera- tions or damage to its property or equipment, the questions of the amount of the Lumber Company's damage and which of the parties shall bear the same, or any part thereof, shall be submitted to two representatives, one appointed by the Lumber Company and the other appointed by the Paper Company, and in case these two re- presentatives are not able to agree on the above questions, said representatives shall agree upon a third party who shall not as arbitrator of said questions and his decision in the matter shall be binding upon the parties. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties have caused these presents to be executed in duplicate, by their duly authoried officers and their corporate scale to be affixed the day and year first above written. CHAS. R. MCCORMICK LUMBER CO. OF DELAWARE By President COPY/ER By Secretary NATIONAL PAPER PRODUCTS COMPANY Hy res on c