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forty bundles. From 30 to 40 per cent of the timber cannot 

 be floated and the object of this method of transportation is to 

 make the floaters carry the nonfloaters. Bundles frequently 

 have to be made over because of an excess of heavy logs which 



Fig. 122. — A Raft Bundle at the Mill Pond. North Carolina. 



causes them to sink. The bundles are constructed at a log dump 

 built over some tidal stream. A cradle of two heavy cables is 

 used to bundle the logs. One end of the cable is fastened to the 

 railroad trestle, and then passed down under the water and up to 



