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LOGGING 



A modification of this form of raft is occasionally used for 

 handling yellow pine in the South. The rafts consist of sec- 

 tions one log long held together by poles which are attached to 



Photograph by R. B. Miller. 

 Fig. 117. — Loading the '"Bottom" of a Raft with Logs, by means of a Par- 

 buckle. A bracicet boom is shown cm the left. Xew Brunswick. 



the logs by a wooden plug driven into holes bored through the 

 poles and into the timbers. Several sections are then made 

 into a raft and floated downstream to the mill under the guid- 

 ance of raftmen w^ho steer with long 

 sweeps or oars. 



On some of the streams in the 



Northeast assorted logs are made 



into rafts and towed to the mills. 



The St. John River Log Driving 



Fig. 118. — Method of Attaching Company of Fredericton, New 



Rafting Poles to the Logs, by Brunswick, makes up its rafts in 



means of Wooden Pms. . ^ 



the following way. The logs after 



being assorted are run into pockets according to ownership. 

 About thirty logs are fastened together at one end with a "rat- 

 tling line" which consists of a cable on which are strung the 



