The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1906-01-27
RINE LOGGING
IN PAINT RIVER
.ORP0RATED TO LOG
Life
there EE AND BRANCHES.
smtt, s$gsa1YOt DtADHEAD LOGS
Millions Of Feet of Valuable Timber I'm
bsddsd IN Bottom Of the Main
River and 10 Branches.

In another column there appears q
legal notice pertaining to the improve
ment OF the Menominee river and its
pranches Many have been the sur
misses yentured a. 70 the meaning Of
that notice but its full meaning IL
explained In the following article
taken from the Marquette Mining
Journal Of last Monday:
Two prominent upper peninsula lum'
bermen. w. A. Whitman and q. N.
Greer OF Marquette. are reported TO be
interested IN a company recently form
I'd for the purpose Of numbering" the
Aenominee and Bruie rivers and their
tributaries The company is known
as the Menominee River Improvement
company. and the men interested in II
besides Messrs Greer and Whitman
are residents OF Menominee. Although
organized under the name OF an i'm
provement company. the real business
70 be engaged in will be the lifting OF
'deadheads" or sunken logs. from
the bed OF the streams on which opera
tions will be carried on.
'submraine logging is Of compara
lively recent origin, and at the present
time there is but one company In
Michigan actively engaged in the
business The company referred 10 Il
now operating on the Manistee river,
ana was organized during the summer
If 1906 It's equipment for hftinl
logs con sists OF number of Hat-bot
toned scows on which lifting cranes
and small engine and boiler are plac
cd for Use in taking the timber from
lbe bottom Of the stream. When th,
~. Lifted they are cross pileC
she tanks and allowed 10 dry unit
in condition 10 be again put into III,
water and fIoated down the stream :,
the mills.
Almost one Of the fret things neces
gary 10 be done after the logs hav,
been brought 10 the surface Is to re
move the bark. When log has beer
submerged for number OF years th'
water works It's way between the barl
and timber. where decomposition on
snes A a limited extent, the bark onl,
responding TO distintegration Will
the wood remains unaffected. Th
odof arising from the decomposed bari
when the logs are peeled is yer.
strong, and can be detected at grea
distances from the piles Of deadheads
Nearly every navigable stream il
the state on which numbering opera
tions operations have been carried oi
in past years contains great number
II deadhead logs The Manistee
Menom inee and Muskegon rivers hav
perhaps more than any three othe
streams in the state. owing to the fac
that operations were heavier on thes
streams than ON any others For
distance of nearly two hundred mile
the Manistee river is paved wit
sunken pine. elm. cherry. oak, maple
and other kinds of timber. Some o
the logs have been under water 10
forty yeara<>sr since the date of the
frst ope .nv on that stream. A
Manistee az u,rman recently said tina
he believbpuntib was at least 1000.
90 nnn = sAelds aierchantable timber Il
yer that could be ~
OF TIC ufactured into lumber
pressly lte Is not far fron
Ills audi IN aone extent n
A. wasl
and pre- ene haniseoe VuHi
cines felO feet Of mixed tim
- Chicffrom one deep hole a
tion of-er Last summer. I'll
aha ne worked over was les
II liar 10 tpxtent Il Is interest
f hams 1 notwithstanding th
HI that heDg may be submcrgc
HLA.s or f5rty years. disintogra
4 wnot ensue until the log
~ l@.pir, ana nearly every 10
~ on, The bottom Of streams
- b. In perfect conditions er
Y, yEfof = few inches on the ends
where vcheoking' Is observed.
In the early days OF numbering onl
the best class OF timber was cut AN
put into the rivers for transportatio
to the mills, In consequence Of whic
the timber now lifted by the sub
marine loggers Is usually Of the fines
grade and nearly all long lengths O
the billions OF feet Of pine and hard
wood driven down the Menomine
river In the past thirty years prehar
10 per cent Is in the bottom Of tina
stream. The small logs, floating bette
than the large ones. were easil