. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. season, however, has been known to extend into Deoember. With the advent of raft boats, the days of floating rafts reached their the business to day compared win its former greatness is but a shadow, there being very few float- ing rafts now seen. Where it formerly required two months' time and thirty five men to run a raft from Wisconsin to St. Louis, a steamboat now does the work in fourteen daye, with the«*aid of eighteen CRSr DE cuisine men,thereby re
. Canadian forest industries 1886-1888. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. season, however, has been known to extend into Deoember. With the advent of raft boats, the days of floating rafts reached their the business to day compared win its former greatness is but a shadow, there being very few float- ing rafts now seen. Where it formerly required two months' time and thirty five men to run a raft from Wisconsin to St. Louis, a steamboat now does the work in fourteen daye, with the«*aid of eighteen CRSr DE cuisine men,thereby reducingthe costmurethan one-' alf In the best days of floating rafts, the coot of running one from Reed's Landing or Stillwater to St. Louis, would reach as hi^h as S'j,000. From 1805 to 1870 lumber rafts were frequent- ly taken as fur South as Memphis and Vicks- burg. Now not more than two rafts in a year go south of St. Louis, and these only as far as St. Mary's tnd Chester. The longest distance ever run by a rait on the Mississippi, was from La Crosse, Wis., to New Orleans. The trip was made in 1870, and this lumber raft was the only one that evtr went to New Orleans from the Upper Mississippi, The fleet was uiu-Je up of ten strings, or about ,000 feet. It was owned by the Gruner Brothers Lumber Crmpany, and whb vhlued at §30,000. Mr. E. O. Shepardson, at pre-ent rait -uperimendant of the Ganahl Lumber C\>mpi» , piloted the fleet as far out as Vuk-tburg, wnere a Lower Mississippi River pilot took charge. The «un from La Crosse to V Orleans wae made in ten weeks. There are eight regular raft boats coming to this port which bring in each season about 150,000,000 feet. This does not include what outside steamers tow in here, which swells the figures to 200,000 000 feet. The principal lumber landings are located in North St. Louis, and take in the principal part of the wharf from North Market street to Biseell's point. The landings are controlled by the Knapp, Stout &
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