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able rolling to get them afloat and placed in the raft 

 again. 



This laying up and getting out again cost about two 

 hundred dollars per raft more than a trip straight 

 through to the mill. Because I had the best boat and 

 was familiar with all the places we were using for stor- 

 age, the "Ten Broeck" got the bulk of this work, and 

 her earnings were cut thereby ; but in the six years I was 

 on her she cleared $22,000.00. We had sustained a cut 

 of ten cents per thousand feet on all logs to Clinton, 

 Lyons and Fulton since 1885 and this made a big differ- 

 ence in profits. 



I only had one real bad break-up while on the "Ten 

 Broeck." This was in Lake Pepin, with a heavy raft of 

 logs from Stillwater on Lake Saint Croix for Chr. 

 Mueller of Davenport, late in October. The mate and 

 his crew had double-boomed it all around the outside 

 and put on extra lines to strengthen it, but this all 

 counted for nothing when the storm struck us at day- 

 break when we were within one and one-half miles of 

 shelter at the mouth of the Chippewa. 



We had to let go and get the "Ten Broeck" away and 

 out of the lake and our raft was reduced to single logs 

 with all the bark worn off them. The bark and our 

 entire kit of lines and poles were thrown up in a wind- 

 row on shore and it was a mean task to disentangle the 

 mass or mess. 



I got a regular rafting crew from Beef Slough to 

 help us and in nine days hard work we had a new raft 

 ready to start and lost only thirty-four logs. 



This break-up occurred before we bought the "Netta 

 Durant." She was about a mile behind us and got the 

 same treatment. Her raft for the Clinton Lumber Com- 



