. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. fhe CANADA LUMBERMAN V UMB XXI. VtBER 12. TORONTO, GftNflDfV, DECEMBBR, 1900 J Terms,$ Per Year, i Single Copies, 10 Cents " ASPORTATION OF LUMBER BY MEANS OF SLUICES. )ne of the most interesting features in con- t'ion with the lumber business in the vicinity (farrsboro, , is the method by which lum- is transported from the mountains and hills [Jhe coast. Sluices are constructed of plankâ tinary rough lumberâusing two-inch plank ?the bottom and one o
. Canadian forest industries 1901-1902. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. fhe CANADA LUMBERMAN V UMB XXI. VtBER 12. TORONTO, GftNflDfV, DECEMBBR, 1900 J Terms,$ Per Year, i Single Copies, 10 Cents " ASPORTATION OF LUMBER BY MEANS OF SLUICES. )ne of the most interesting features in con- t'ion with the lumber business in the vicinity (farrsboro, , is the method by which lum- is transported from the mountains and hills [Jhe coast. Sluices are constructed of plankâ tinary rough lumberâusing two-inch plank ?the bottom and one or one and one-half inch t in the sides. The sluices are usually about : nches wide and 7 inches deep, being cleated tut every three feet. They have an incline ch varies according to the lay of the land, i pitch being perhaps one inch to the rod at Jlowest, and in other places ten inches to the I and often steeper. he sluice turns and twists about the hills, iging mother earth wherever possible, or cily defying her close embrace, leaps into space r over chasms and valleys with ..al skill. \ few years ago the writer, Me wheeling from Acadia Mines farrsboro, suddenly .«aw be- ll him, down a long, broad, I deep valley, what seemed ii a gigantic spider web deftly Ip from ridge to ridge, and I enough apparently to waft i he breezes. A cautious and erer approach proved most in- ! sting in results. The skele- ) structure of round and rough B and poles, ingeniously fram- : bolted and spiked together, fed aloft to nearly 150 feet irhead, supported far up there )ng the breezes which gently >yed it a strip of wooden 'ugh which here and there kled drops of water upon the wayfarer beneath >ie gazed in wonder at the innocent cob-web litly holding aloft a thread of water, which B past on its surface thousands of feet of lum- :each hour of the day,from its home in the re- ;ses of those blue hills to the decks of vessels e n by the sea shore many miles away. rhe illustration given wit
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