50 HISTORY OF LUMBER INDUSTRY IN NEW YORK. 



The beginnings < if the lumber industry in the State of New York — Continued. 



»Thismill, soon after its erection, was carried away by the famous "punkin flood" that inundated 

 the valleys of the Susquehanna and its tributaries in the fall of 1787. The cornfields were swept bare. 

 and the yellow pumpkins that thickly dotted the surface of the swollen streams were so conspicuous 

 that the descriptive name just mentioned survives among the household words in southern New York 



