LOG-MARKS. 



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On the Raquette River the log marks recorded in the town clerk's 

 office at Potsdam since 1851 included, among- others, the following-: 



Ransom Jenkins -7^ 



A. M. Adsit & Coc -f- -^- 



Henry Hevvett pj-J 



Hewett & Townsend [^ 



Parmenter & Hitchings 



George L. Stanton 



Morgan, Rosekrans & Adsit 



S. Chamberlain & Co )=| 



Hitchings & Hall ^T 



N. Pratt & Son jQ 



Ralph Pomeroy y^-J 



Archibald Robertson q 



George W. Sisson ^ 



Sherman Lumber Co x ^ $ 



Augustus Sherman iQ 



Burnham, Loveless & Co ^ 



M. S. Ballard -0- 



A 



W. A. Griswold 



Foster & Boswell %), 



Harmon & Rice § 



Norwood Manufacturing Co ... {Q 



Watkins, Turner & Co ^ 



Export Lumber Co SAX 



Export Lumber Co ^pj 



Ralph & Co X 



In addition to the foregoing there were a large number of log-marks 

 on the Raquette in which letters or numerals were used. 



The law requiring that the log-marks on the Raquette River should 

 be recorded was passed in 1851. It allowed the town clerk 25 cents 

 for recording each mark. Many of these marks had been in use on 

 the Raquette River prior to 1851. ' Since then 102 different marks have 

 been recorded, the last entry having been made December 1, 1900, by 

 the Raquette River Paper Company. 



On the Saranac River there were: 



Maine Company XX Loren Ellis E 



Christopher F. Norton -y \ Thomas & Hammond "f 



H. &0. A. Tefft c£L> Patrick Hanlon Q-Q 



J. H. & E. C. Baker 5 D. H. & W. Parsons <f 



Everitt C. Baker Jj 



As the different lumber firms went out of business from time to 

 time and had nO further use for their marks, the right to use them 

 was usually bought by other lumbermen. To reprint all the different 

 marks used on the many logging streams would occupy too much 

 -pace. Those shown here will give some idea of what constituted a 

 "log-mark." The characters were made in different sizes, but were 

 usually from 1 to ?> inches in length and width. In some instances 

 numerals instead of characters were used. In selecting a design for a 

 log-mark care was taken to choose one which would easily be recog- 

 nized as the log passed through the "gap" at the sorting boom; and 

 the men who did the marking with the hammer were supposed to hit 

 the log in several places on each end, so that whatever side might lie 

 up as it floated through the opening some one of the marks would 



