Foster, Edwin W · Boston : Ginn and Company · leaf 62
ed into a stream and floated down the river to asawmill, or, in case there is no river near by, are cartedon sleds or wagons to the railroad and tlience to the mill. WOOD 53 The cutting of the trees is usually done in winter,the floating of the logs, or river driving as it is called,beginning with… … Fig. 65. A Skidway of Adirondack Spruce that hundreds of thousands of logs are stopped in theircourse, forming an immense dam which the lumbermencall a log jmn. To break up this jam very often requires much laborand gre:it dating on the part of the drivers, who wear
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