The cutting and transporting of wood used to build ships, airplanes and military structures
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The cutting and transporting of wood used to build ships, airplanes and military structures
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Locked in the Cradle of the Raft
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WHAT happens to the murmuring
: pine and the hemlock when war
is declared? Many of them cease
murmuring, for they are chopped down
and sent off to help make ships, air-
planes, and the many temporary strue-
tures that the work of war demands.
‘When the chopped-down trees have
been turned into logs they are sent
down the river in huge rafts of their
own making. Each raft contains mil-
lions of feet of lumber. Here we see
how these rafts are made in Oregon,
which is one of the greatest lumber
States in the country.
First a large cradle is constructed.
It looks much like the framework of
a big ship minus a keel. Then the
logs are fitted in; they are held in
place by many heavy chains, Power-
ful ocean-going tugs tow the finished
raft away. Throughout the voyage the
logs are carefully watched lest they
start to slip. This is not surprising,
for each raft is worth a fortune.
The forests of Oregon cover more
than half the area of the entire State,
government reports tell us. There
you find—besides pine and hemlock—
cedar, spruce, oak, ash, maple, ma-
hogany, and fir trees. The Douglas
fir is most abundant, constituting five
sevenths of all the trees in the State.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-07
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16
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 95, n. 1, 1919
