62 Rivers Their Uses Lumber. 



A Pine Forest Lumber-men at Work. 



13. This stream that runs down hill is also 

 very useful for carrying down logs. In the 

 winter, when the farmers cannot plough or sow 

 or reap, they go into the woods and cut down 

 trees. The branches they cut off and draw 

 home for firewood, but the trunks they cut up 

 into logs of about thirteen feet or more in 

 length, and then roll them to the bank of the 

 stream, or drag them on the snow by means of 

 oxen or horses. You may see some logs in the 

 chart, on the bank of a stream. 



14. Immense quantities of lumber are obtained every 

 year from the forests of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota, California, Oregon, Maine, and Canada. 



