. The City of Albany and Dougherty County . Ihotu hv llollan.!. KKl C^ I-i(i;sS O. — LuGS RKADV lUR THE SKIDDER AT WORK IN THE HEART OF CH ICKASAWHATCH IE SWAMP. Photo by by oxen were used to draw the cypress logs out of the edge?-of the swamps. These primitive methods have given place totram railroads which penetrate, and powerful skidders whichoperate in, the very heart of the densest swamp, so that thegiants of the swamp forests are felled and handled with no moredifficulty than is a pine log in the open piney woods. The Red Cypress Lumber Co. is a model of modernm
. The City of Albany and Dougherty County . Ihotu hv llollan.!. KKl C^ I-i(i;sS O. — LuGS RKADV lUR THE SKIDDER AT WORK IN THE HEART OF CH ICKASAWHATCH IE SWAMP. Photo by by oxen were used to draw the cypress logs out of the edge?-of the swamps. These primitive methods have given place totram railroads which penetrate, and powerful skidders whichoperate in, the very heart of the densest swamp, so that thegiants of the swamp forests are felled and handled with no moredifficulty than is a pine log in the open piney woods. The Red Cypress Lumber Co. is a model of modernmethods. In its enormous plant only the most improved ap-pliances are used. The huge cypress logs are handled as thoughthey were toothpicks, and are cut into lumber with remark-able rapidity. The plants annual capacity is more than twelvemillion feet, which, reduced to dollars and cents, runs into thehundreds of thousands of dollars. 7 his lumber is stored in the yards of the company andthoroughly seasoned, every piece being allowed to dry out forperiods of from nine to fifteen months before shipment. Ofthis outpu
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