. Canadian forest industries 1916. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER September 1, 1916 Logging Flume Construction and Its Use Description of Methods Adopted in Modern Practice of Fluming in the Western Mountain Districts 1 â By W. D. Starbird* â Water, in one way or another, is a factor in almost all methods made use of by loggers and lumbermen in moving forest products from one point to another any considerable distance. The lakes and streams of this country have been and are still being extensively
. Canadian forest industries 1916. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER September 1, 1916 Logging Flume Construction and Its Use Description of Methods Adopted in Modern Practice of Fluming in the Western Mountain Districts 1 â By W. D. Starbird* â Water, in one way or another, is a factor in almost all methods made use of by loggers and lumbermen in moving forest products from one point to another any considerable distance. The lakes and streams of this country have been and are still being extensively utilized for floating logs, lumber and other timber products from the forests to some desirable point for the location of mills and factories. The method most commonly used is to dump large quantities of logs into some running stream and float them with the current to the point where the manufacturing plant is to be located. This is commonly known as log driving, and, in some instances has proven a very economical and satisfactory means of transportation ; but as the lumber business has developed and grown in magnitude the forests lying along such streams as were readily adapted to this use have been denuded until now those that can be made available for the purpose at all generally require expensive improvements before they can be utilized in this manner. This is particularly true of the moun- tain timber districts in the west, where many of the streams flow through rough and rugged country, in rocky channels, with such steep grades and swift currents that it is impractical to make use of them in floating logs, consequently many large and valuable tracts of the finest kind of merchantable timber can only be made available by some other means. Railroads can be made use of to advantage in some instances, and have been built and utilized extensively. They are, however, frequently impracticable owing to steep grades and the high cost of construction and operation. Wherever such
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