pecial methods. A very effective device where streams aresmall is the flume. Fig. 23. This is a long wooden trough thruwhich water is led, and the logs floated end on. It is sometimes manymiles long: in one case in California twentv-five miles. 22 UAXDWORK IX WOOD. In the Soutli where there is no… … Fig-. 23. Six Mik- Flume. Adirondack Mountains. New Ymk. Soinc kinds (if wood aio so heavy that they will not iloat at al,and some sink so readily that it does not ])ay to transport tliem byriver. In such cases temporary railways are usually resorted to. On the Paciiic coast, where the forests aie…
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