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THE FORESTER. 



April, 



Lumbering in the Northwest. 



Graphic reproductions of forest scenes 

 and lumbering operations are always in- 

 teresting, even to the most casual ob- 

 server. Especially is this true of the 

 great forests of the Pacific Northwest, 

 where the trees are of truly gigantic pro- 

 portions, the growth upon the ground 



a point in the southern part of the State 

 of Washington. The latter represents a 

 view of a waterway where the great logs 

 are received to be floated to the sawmill. 

 The two Oregon views show something 

 of the methods by which great obstacles 

 in the way of successful logging have 

 been overcome by the ingenuity of re- 



A TIMBER SLIDE IN OREGON. 



-very dense, and where lumbering meth- 

 ods are necessarily upon a scale com- 

 mensurate with these conditions. In 

 this issue The Forester presents three 

 lifelike illustrations of some of the 

 methods in vogue in the lumber camps 

 of that region. The above scene and 

 one on page 87, are from Oregon, twenty 

 miles below Portland, on the Columbia 

 River, and another, on page 83, is from 



sourceful lumbermen. Timber slides 

 are constructed, upon which immense 

 logs are quickly drawn up a steep hill- 

 side by means of steel wire cables, oper- 

 ated by machinery. Similar slides 

 are used to conduct logs down hills or 

 mountain sides to the mill, road or water- 

 way. The Forester will present other 

 views of equal interest from time to time. 



