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and remembering that all along the forest line where lumber- 

 ing is being carried on the same work is being done, one is 

 inclined to doubt the wisdom of such an apparent wholesale 

 destruction of the forest. But let us follow these logs, or at 

 least a raft or train-load of them, to their destination at the 

 mills. 



" Whether the logs are ' run ' or carried by rail, the 

 object is the same to get them to some tide-water point 

 where they will be available at all times for use of the 

 mills. Some deep slough or arm of the bay is usually 

 chosen as a railroad terminus. Here a landing is built of 

 heavy logs, with an incline toward the water, the inner line 

 of the landing close to the track. Over this landing, with 

 the aid of jack-screws without which it would hardly be 

 possible to handle them the logs are rolled into the water, 

 where they are made up into rafts from time to time, and 

 towed to the various mills, where they are stored in the 

 booms for use. From these booms or ponds the logs are 

 hauled up an incline into the mill by a great chain attached 

 to a low iron car, which is first lowered into the water and 

 the log floated upon it and made fast. The sawyer being 

 ready for the log, he lifts or rolls it to its place upon the car- 

 riage by means of a huge derrick ; the log is secured, the 

 lever is thrown over, and the log moves up against the double 

 (or triple) circulars, which cleave their way through the wood 

 as if it offered no resistance. 



'' Where mills are operating back from tide-water, and 

 which are located upon streams, the logs are stored in ponds 

 built especially for the purpose. Here the logging trains 



