Lumbering And Steamboating On the St Croix River
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This method was call- ed cordelling, and two to four miles a day of sixteen hours was an average day's work. Sometimes, when cordelling was im- practicable, two thousand feet of line was laid ahead with an anchor and warped in by hand.
Fearing storms, the men continued this work day and night as long as they could stand it to work without sleep. Now and then some passing boat bound down stream would take the rafts into tow. Captain R. S. Harris of the Otter and later the War Eagle, gave the raf...ts a tow at so much per hour, I think $15. The raft pilots were willing to pay any price to hurry through the raftman's dread, lake Pepin. The writer well remembers seeing the west shore of lake Pepin, from Lake City to Read's Landing, white from; broken lumber, when three lumber rafts were broken to pieces and rendered entirely valueless in a storm, the breakup resulting in the loss of many thousands of dollars to the pilots and owners of the lumber.
Early in the 5o's the lumber trade of the St.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This method was call- ed cordelling, and two to four miles a day of sixteen hours was an average day's work. Sometimes, when cordelling was im- practicable, two thousand feet of line was laid ahead with an anchor and warped in by hand.
Fearing storms, the men continued this work day and night as long as they could stand it to work without sleep. Now and then some passing boat bound down stream would take the rafts into tow. Captain R. S. Harris of the Otter and later the War Eagle, gave the raf...ts a tow at so much per hour, I think $15. The raft pilots were willing to pay any price to hurry through the raftman's dread, lake Pepin. The writer well remembers seeing the west shore of lake Pepin, from Lake City to Read's Landing, white from; broken lumber, when three lumber rafts were broken to pieces and rendered entirely valueless in a storm, the breakup resulting in the loss of many thousands of dollars to the pilots and owners of the lumber.
Early in the 5o's the lumber trade of the St.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Edward White Durant to read onlineMoreLess
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