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But the river driver is passing. Other methods of getting logs to the mill are 

 fast coming into use. And now when the hunter or fisherman makes temporary 

 quarters in some old abandoned logging camp he looks thoughtfully at the punch- 

 eon floor, thickly pitted with the marks made by the spikes in the river drivers' 

 shoes, and thinks of the old days of the big log drives, or listens to the guide as he 

 tells the story of some "good man " who met death bravely in the foaming rapids 

 or on the head of the jam. 



On the larger streams the owners of the various mills generally arranged for a 

 " union drive," in which expenses were shared according to the number of logs each 

 one had in the drive, a proportion which was easily ascertained from the tally at 

 the sorting boom or from the books of the log scalers. 



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Each lumberman on the river had his own peculiar log mark, which was stamped 

 with a marking hammer on the ends of his logs while piled in the woods on 

 skidways, or before they were put into the stream. There were so many different 

 firms operating on the Upper Hudson that the ingenuity of the lumbermen was 

 greatly taxed to devise new and distinctive characters to mark their floating 

 property. 



Some of the principal marks used, from 1851 to 1900, on the Upper Hudson and 

 its tributaries — the Sacandaga, Schroon and Boreas rivers — were as follows: 



A. Wing & Co. © 



A. N. Cheney -[*}- 



Tefft & Russell Q 



Morgan Lumber Company \^ 



James Morgan & Co. i + l 



Finch, Pruyn & Co. -^ 



Morgan & McEchron OK 



W. H. Bloomingdale )>^ 



D. W. Sherman ^ 



A. Sherman [— ^ 



George H. Freeman | 



Bradley & Underwood Jill 



