26 HISTORY OF LUMBER INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK. 



But the old-time river-driver is passing, and now, when the cit} T 

 hunter or fisherman makes his headquarters in some old, abandoned 

 log-camp, he looks thoughtfully at the floor, thickly pitted with the 

 marks made by the spikes in the river-drivers' shoes, and thinks of the 

 days of the big "log-drives," while he listens to the guide who tells 

 the story of how some "good man" met his death bravely in the white, 

 foaming rapids on the head of the jam. 



In later years, on the larger streams, the owners of the various 

 mills usually arranged for a " union drive." the expense being shared 

 by the log- owners in proportion to the number of standards they had 

 in the drive, this amount being determined by a tally kept at the sort- 

 ing boom, or taken from the books of the log-sealers. 



LOG-MARKS. 



Each lumberman on the river had his own peculiar log-mark, which 

 was stamped with a marking hammer on the ends of his logs while 

 piled in the woods on the skid ways, or before they were put into the 

 stream. There were so many different firms operating on the upper 

 Hudson that the ingenuity of the lumbermen was greatly taxed to 

 devise new and distinctive marks for their floating property. 



Some of the principal marks used from 1851 to 1890 on the upper 

 Hudson and its tributaries, the Sacandaga, Schroon, and Boreas rivers, 

 were as follow^: 



A Wing & Co . Bradley c\; Underwood Q(J 



A.X.Cheney ■£} Kenyon Lumber Co ^ 



Tefft & Russeli Q < >rson Richards 0~0 



Morgan Lumber Co ^ Van Dusen & Crandal] *g? 



James Morgan & Co {7x Freeman A: Van Dusen fjj 



Finch, Pruyn & Co J£ Cheney & Amies |Gj 



Morgan & McEchron QL/ Lemon Thomson Y 



W. H. Bloomingdale y Thomson, Douglas & Dix T) 



D.W.Sherman ^ Union Bag and Paper Co tPp 



A.Sherman g International Paper Co V/ 



George H. Freeman r-i 



On the Tioga River the firm of Fox. Weston & Bronson used the 

 following marks to distinguish the logs coming from their various 

 timber tracts: 0OAv?§g- 



Other marks used on the Tioga were as follows: 

 Ballard & Co | Cameron & Co (2? 



On the Oswegatchie River the logs of the principal firms were 

 stamped as follows: 



Starbuck & McCarty § | Weston, Dean & Aldrich ^ 



On the Indian River (Lewis County) Roberts & Brooks used this 

 mark: »-J-<. 



