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rate. On the upper Mississippi River more than 2000 log marks 

 have been registered with the surveyor-general, and over 1600 

 have been employed during a single season. 



The marks and brands represent a great variety of figures 

 comprising single letters, monograms of two or three letters and 

 numerous figures which are known amongst river drivers by 

 fantastic names. 



Log brands have always been the distinguishing feature for 

 logs in the Adirondack region, while in Maine bark marks are 

 extensively employed. Both forms are used on the Mississippi 



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Fig. 112. — Some Mississippi River Log Marks, i-io, monograms; ii, blaze notch; 

 12, notch girdle; 13, scalp; 14, cross; 15, notch; 16, dagger; 17, cross girdle; 

 18, diamond; 19, twenty; 20, thirty; 21, umbrella; 22, saw horse; 23, fork; 24, 

 straight S; 25, flag; 26, pine tree; 27, inverted A with scalps; 28, fifty; 29, pot 

 hook; 30, fish hook; 31, bar C; 32, box with ears; SS, wild goose: 34, sheep 

 head; 35, crow foot; 36, double dagger; 37, fifteen; 38, triangle; 39, star girdle; 

 40, turtle. 



River and its tributaries, and also in many parts of the Appa- 

 lachian region. Brands are in extensive use on the Pacific Coast 

 where logs are transported by water, but are seldom used in the 

 interior. 



When registered^ with some designated state or county ofiicial 



1 "Failure of owner to comply with Compiled Laws, section 5083, providing for 

 the recording of log marks, was only effective to deprive the owner of the statutory 

 presumption of ownership of logs unmarked with the recorded mark, and did not 

 deprive him of his property in logs, the title to which he might establish by other 

 means, including an unrecorded mark used by him." Whitman vs. Muskegon 

 Log Lifting and Operating Co. Supreme Court of Michigan, 116 Northwestern 

 614. 



