Rafting On the Susquehanna
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Numerous mills were erected about Williamsport and throughout that section in the 70's and 80's and many of them began cutting the poorer grades of white pine, and as this was exhausted the immense hemlock forests, heretofore a despised wood, which never had been rafted down the river, began to come on the market, whither it was shipped by rail and sold under the general name of " bill stuff. " At times some of the big floods did great damage, notably in 1889 and 1894, broke the booms and milli...ons of feet of logs escaped and were carried clear down the river. A great many reached the Chesapeake Bay. These were mostly hemlock round logs, were cut very much shorter, being generally 16 or 32 feet in length.
The business methods and mechanical processes used to get these rafts into the hands of the ultimate consumer generally were about as follows : The owners or lessees of the timber lands, consisting of millions of acres, engaged men to do the cutting of the trees and logging, these men being hired at about $1.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Numerous mills were erected about Williamsport and throughout that section in the 70's and 80's and many of them began cutting the poorer grades of white pine, and as this was exhausted the immense hemlock forests, heretofore a despised wood, which never had been rafted down the river, began to come on the market, whither it was shipped by rail and sold under the general name of " bill stuff. " At times some of the big floods did great damage, notably in 1889 and 1894, broke the booms and milli...ons of feet of logs escaped and were carried clear down the river. A great many reached the Chesapeake Bay. These were mostly hemlock round logs, were cut very much shorter, being generally 16 or 32 feet in length.
The business methods and mechanical processes used to get these rafts into the hands of the ultimate consumer generally were about as follows : The owners or lessees of the timber lands, consisting of millions of acres, engaged men to do the cutting of the trees and logging, these men being hired at about $1.
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