HARDWOOD RECORD 



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LOGS MAROONED BY ROCKS IN CiNYON OF THE BREAKS, 

 SINCE BLOWN OUT 



THE ROUGH BOTTOM 01' THE GORGE OF THE BIG SANDY 



TOWER ROCK. THE IMPOSING PINNACLE 

 OVERLOOKING BREAKS OP SANDY 



pounds of dyuamite were employed. It took 

 four hundred and fifty pounds of this ex- 

 plosive to demolish Jerry Rock, one of the 

 large obstinietions in the stream. 



This was all experimental work. When 

 the Yellow Poplar Lumber Compauj- made 

 the great investment in this splash dam 

 and in blasting out this channel, the officers 

 did not know whether it was possible to 

 make a success of it or not. They exercised 

 rare judgment in every detail of the work 

 and their skill and daring lias proven a 

 monumental success. The Breaks of the Big 

 Sandy are no longer a bug-bear to log 

 driving operations. 



Today forty million feet of big poplar 

 sticks, heretofore described in the Kecoed 

 are through the Breaks of the Sandy and 

 in rafting water between Elkhorn City and 

 Pikeville. or safely in the log harbor of thr 

 Yellow Poplar Lumber Company at Coal 

 Grove, O. 



The next chapter of this story will describe 

 the process of catching the loose poplar logs 

 of the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company below 

 the Breaks, forming them into rafts and 

 floating them to the mouth of the Big Sandy 

 River at Catlettsburg, making the rafts into 

 fleels and transferring them to the log harbor 

 of the company at its big sawmill plant at 

 Coal Grove. 



VICE - PRESIDENT IS.VACSEN LOOKING 



DOWN INTO THE Hl;i:.\KS FROM AN 



OVEKHANGlNii CLIFF 



ANOTHER VIEW IN THE GORGE OF THE BREAKS 



ROCK BARRIERS IN BREAKS OF SANDY. 

 SINCE DYNAMITED OUT 



