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Title: Annual report of the Forest, Fish and Game Commission of the State of New York
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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nds of the Adirondacks is the result of some dam orreservoir which was built in the interest of State canals, local steamboat lines ormanufactories on the lower waters. The lumbermen had little or nothing to dowith them. In the southern and western portions of New York the lumbermen rarely builtthese small flooding dams to assist them in their river driving. The country wasnot so mountainous; the streams were not so rapid or violent as in the Adirondackforests; the spring floods held up longer by reason of a less rapid flow; the logdriving was easier in every respect. I^ocr Drivers and Tl)eir Wor^. The beginning of log driving was coincident with the sudden increase in thedevelopment of the country at the commencement of the last century. As therewere no canals or railroads, and as logs could no longer be supplied under the formerprimitive methods of hauling from the forest to the mill, some such method becamenecessary owing to the corresponding demands for lumber. The haul had become
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Pi 3W 3> a W E U o < ? q J o ° o „ < au 5 FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 259 too long, forcing the manufacturers either to move their sawmills up stream or toflood the logs down to some place where they could be sawed. In a few years log drivers were at work on every large river in the State.The logs, which were cut and skidded in the fall, were hauled during the winter tothe banks of the streams, where they were piled in huge tiers on the bankingground, as it was called on the Susquehanna, or rolling bank in Northern NewYork. With the first spring freshet, often while the ice was still running, the block-ing was knocked loose, allowing the great piles of logs to roll down the slopingground, over the edge of the bank, in a swiftly moving, tumbling, splashing mass,into the cold, turbid stream. In some places the logs were unloaded from thesleighs directly on the ice which covered some lake, pond or stream, with the inten-tion of allowing the logs to go out with the ice o

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