169 consecutive years, the poorest on the river have resounded with the sound of the woodlands at it today by exercising common sense and practical forestry, we have the finest band of timber in the northeast united states. For the past 75 years. My father, my brother and i have had charge of these timberlands. Knowing that the long lumber industry in maine was a thing of the past. In 1930, i purchased a moving picture camera to make a record of the log lumber, operate auctions on the river. And so by our method of forestry, the size of the logs we were able to produce. The first is the logging camp on township 36. When i got the crew out of the camp to take the picture, they thought that they were obliged to stand still, not knowing that the moving picture, a camera required action. But i did get a kick out of paul mealy, the the men eat and sleep in this building. The bingle is in the middle where the men are coming out. We will now show you a couple of hall boys from kennebec sawing a pine. The tree is on the opposite side, from which they saw the next scene is the same crew with ed commas and harry mccree. The on the saw these men will saw the trees into 316 foot logs Charlie Odonnell is putting the distinguishing mark with an ax on the side of the tree. We usually use a single horse to twitch the logs to the yard as it doesnt destroy as much young grow as i wanted to be in the picture i had mr. Mccready hold the camera on me while i came out to take the views of the four teams hauling the logs to the landed on the first load. Good. Stan hope is teamster. On the second load. William hudson is teamster. The logs on these sleds are very good sized logs for an operation in maine at this time. On the third load, wilton forces teams to you will notice a crooked log on the side. This is a cedar and will be sawed off in 16 inch bolts to make single. On the fourth load is alfred mealy tames the forest team we had in the lot, but they had the largest load this morning. The teams are unloading at the rolling pier at the west branch. Note the steam rising off the horses owing to a tremendous rainstorm the day before the scream overflowed and it was not deemed advisable to put the teams on the ice. I took this view to show the outfit that i used to travel through the woods, driving only one horse and a double track. The next scene is the main river camp, the building in back is the garage for the log hall. The vehicle in front is the snowmobile on the right, the hubbell, where the horses are kept. Sam handy and herbert hart are now cutting the trees on township 31 below the bacons place. This is the third crop of timber cut off this land under our system of cutting. In the past 25 years, this is the lombard log hauler built at waterville, maine. Without it, we would have had to build four dams on Crooked River and expense of ten or 12,000. This is edwin blanch, a witness. Hell arrive in at the yard with a load of logs from peek at mountain. The loads on the front of the yard are ready for the log hall. Just gone by. We are now showing the cutting of logs on township 37. The clock is taking lunch to the man with 27 years ago this country was cleaned. According to our system of operating by james mcclean. And when i sent mr. Oliver up there to cruise the land, he thought it would be useless because he understood the timber was all cut. But you will note the trees cross piled here. It is not a bad stand of timber grown in the past 27 years. Now landing logs on third leg, old stream. These logs are landed in a coal boom is put around them on the ice. When the ice goes out in the spring, they warp these logs and the boom down to the outlet where they may be slowed through the dam and driven into the river. I, i took this view to make a record of logging sleds used on our river, the bunks of the sleds are seven feet long on the same croix river. They use sleds with a five foot bunk. Other places they use ten and 12 foot bunk. In the spring river drive begins on the west branch. Logs coming down the stream have collected on the boulders on the shore and are forming a wing which if not removed, will build across the stream and form a jam. Mr. Ed connors, who is the boss, is one of the most efficient lumberman in maine. He could build a dam or build a camp. Hes a good Civil Engineer and lay out a practical logging road and drive the logs, the water and the logs are making so much noise. Conversation is difficult. So mr. Connors is motion into some of the men to come down to work on another place. I have taken this view to show how agile the river drivers are. The men have picked poles and you see them running over the log, shaping them. So to keep them floating down with the current, we will now show you the shoes worn by the men on the drive made by bass of wilton, maine. The courts enabled the men to stay on the logs when the slippery and makes them able to do efficient work. The cookhouse is hallowed luncheon and in a moment you will notice two men crossing on to logs. The fellow in the rear is brown from east is now a bellhop at the Falmouth Hotel portland. He said, mr. Ames, i came pretty near falling in, but he landed on shore. All right. This scene is the men having their lunch they have for lunch is a day of breakfast for oclock. First lunch, 9 00. Second lunch, two in the afternoon and supper when they get in at night, first lunch and they have can be boiled ham, hard boiled eggs, biscuit donuts, cookies and tea. Second lunch they have tea cookies, donut biscuit and ham. This is roll ledge in the summertime one can walk across this led with shoes when the water is turned on to make a driving hit, it spreads out on this leg so the logs roll over this is a beautiful sight in most interest in to see these log rolling, tumbling, pounding all day long, the day after i took this view, a body of logs came down in the night and formed a wing on the opposite shore and had to be dynamited off. The next scene is taken a mile below where Young Morrison of brittany ville and another fellow attending this station to see that the logs dont from a jam. In 1879, when i first went up the highest river, this section was heavily timbered with pine from 12 inches up on the stump. We now come to a tunnel pitch. This is a small island middle stream about 18 years ago, a gem formed up over here and the tidbits of cherries was out there helping pittsburgh. Lamb when the logs started, he fell in. He went down under the logs and the crew all turned away from the site thinking that he was lost. The happened to be an opening in the logs about 12 feet across where the water boiled up through someone looked up and discovered that just as the water threw him up on the logs, he had one on jonah. He came out all right. This is bane river camp. And the cooks of their lunches, cafeteria style note the two cooks, one is al smith, not of new york, but of Columbia Falls and by his side is billy hemmes, the much dryer is a very jacksonville. Mr. Connors is now leading the crew up on the jim, the man in the back part of the screen with a light shirt on is chopping the key log. If theyre not able to start it by cutting the right log, they may have to use dynamite this time the logs commence to move. The men are going to the shore where the logs pinch up, trying to keep the logs moving. The logs are 6 to 8 feet deep, in fact, down to the bottom of the river. You will note the spruce 20 feet long going and over and. The men on these logs have to be careful because of their slips down between the logs, theyre liable to have a port or a leg pinched off. You will notice the logs gathering momentum all the time. Remain. Body of logs is held by a boom. Just about a mile above waiting to get this jam started. When the river is clear, they will turn the other logs off. Leaving. The next scene is main river bridge. One view is up. The river, the logs coming down to the bridge and the view of the rapids. Later the backhoes will be run over these riffling. Now you will see the men working on this wing. A point is forming out into the stream, held there by boulders, and the logs will have to be cleaned off when it is all flattened down. Mr. Carmack will take the men onto the shore where they will clean out the coal. The green men, which we sometimes call all got handles, will work on the shore while experts like the man with the vest on mr. Scott of bering the work on the outside next the stream. Mr. Connors is on the shore watching if anything should happen, the men would be in danger. It would hooded them and have them come ashore. Now we will show you the men clearing the center jam at the head of the fall. These logs all have to be picked off, and it took about a days work for 20 men. We have two boats on the river to follow along and pick up the stray logs. The men that may be marooned are likely about 20 years ago i saw joe haycock stand on this ledge nearly half an hour while they drop the backhoe down to having one line on each shore, first, paying out one line and then another until the boat swung around and could get aboard. A man is on the logs about 30 feet from shore. You will see the backhoe drop down to pick up. Unfortunately, my camera ran down at the critical time and i didnt catch him as he jumped the board. The battle in the cold is putting some men ashore to go to work down below, there is a view of the falls and the battle coming down over the rapid and its some joyride. In 1920 i came over. This falls in a battle when we struck a boiler, a one up through over the heads of the men in the bow. And i got about a barrel of water right in the face. Here comes another bedroll down over local three or four battles. And here until after the last log is taken off the pole. Then they will close the boom behind logs in the pool and it is dead water from here into what neuville. Patrick sullivan was camera shy, but thinking i had the camera, he came out on the roof with me and i had another man take shot, which shows Philip Clement of prentiss and carlyle alford in von miller and patrick sullivan, the dog coming out to greet me and face me many miles through the woods. We will now show you the fire and long and river drive outfit. The fire is between two logs where we boil tea and bake it in a tin kitchen before the open fire. The cook is given wood for the beam hole. The main hole is three feet across and filled up with kindling wood with birch or maple wood thrown on the fire. The beams are put in the ground at 4 00 in the afternoon and 4 00 in the morning. The process is reversed. I stage this picture because i could not take a bullet 4 00 in the morning. Al smith has given clint clark a play to be. Bill vane is bryan donat. Ive seen half a barrel of donuts eaten by the crew and one meal next is the canal at whitley bill, where the logs come to match ii is by the witness the old mill. This is the dam whitney built in the sullivan mill where. Frank hammond and charlie handy are sorting logs for the lower mill. From the top of the mill in a different pocket to the mill pond, west booth. Pine and hemlock are sorted. I am standing on a log but i picked out a good big one. Note these children in their bathing suit the river drivers of the future. These are not the kind that would be worn at palm beach, but they clear the law. How would mill who built by dr. Howard of boston, who was a member of the boston mill and land company, used to be two mills with cross angles. In 1858, the brothers of east metropolis purchases mill and my father were sent over here to manage them. They had been under his hand and my chad since that date. The old fellow with the pit pole feet in the logs up onto the slip. As harrison thought these rails would in partly by dr. Kane of washington, dc, he had a modern up to date camera. I could not get such good views of the one that i purchased. The logs going up or slip or mccain. Will now go into the mill. I noticed the log picker throwing the log off the live. We are now rolling logs onto the ben saw character. When the log comes back it is turned down on the skid. This is the back side of the band. Saw the solid lumber come in off the live roll. Pine boards 16 inches wide the square edge boards going through the edge of that is the way we get them out on the loading platform platform. The why live edge would have to be in the saws or set on a shaft with guides would pull them back and forth to make six, eight or ten inch boards. Now you will see the trimmer. We are now cutting, edging. Mark mcbride has some job to keep the rolls clear of the lumber. We are getting out ten by 12 timber for bridge frame. Mill hanscom is edging. We are now sawing leaves from large edges, which come off the side of the plank. We are now sign clambered made from the sound log 18 inches in diameter or knob and saw it on the bed mill into bolts 50 inches long. The back and sap wood is turned off and the bolt is made symmetrical. Couple of hooks are fastened down to this bolt and then slung around to the Club Building machine. Notice the saw is underneath. The bolt is dropped down on the saw and it soars towards the center about six and a half inches inside. Clambered from the circumference towards the center. It makes one edge and the other thin frame is a pie cut out of the supper. This is the expensive part of the mill where the bend is filed. The bands are used in our mill is 48 feet long, nine inches wide, 14 gauge and one and a quarter to four men are putting the dulcimer on the floor and taking the shop one off the grinding machine. Notice the sparks fly from the emery wheel on the filing machine. Jimmy lee is the fila file. He simply points up the tool with the that you saw us have to be rolled hammered and tension. It is some job to make one run perfect. Next is loaded timber from the loading platform an order of one and a quarter by ten proof for the Portsmouth Navy yard. That shows loaded last. Here i am with dr. Howard kane. Dr. Kane is a metropolis boy and now were both successful practicing position. Washington dc. Around a million. All the houses are owned by mill men who work for my brother and me for the past 50 years. They all own their own home and theyre very comfortable. The last real shows the shipping of lumber in 1917, the schooner lucy evelyn wood, built at harrington, maine. Before the schooner was completed, we could patrol the sails and rigging at a profit of 10,000. Now we cannot the schooner away. This order is for bridgeport, connecticut. The decalogue goes to vineyard haven. The rail of the schooner is eight or ten feet above the wall at which we have a rise fall with the tide of 12 feet each day. As business fell off, we were obliged to sell the towboat and now have to depend on dean boat for towing the lucy ellen is loaded with 2,250,000 leaves for new york. Probably this is the last cargo of lumber that i will ever ship. Arthur jasper is opening the drawer on the drawbridge that lead. From the east. Retired across the river. You will notice the towboat and the reflection of the smoke in the water. This is a time before a storm. We had a good one that night. Just as the towboat is going through the drawbridge, you will notice the steam from the train which leaves kalis in the morning for bengal, leaving metro station about 9 00 in the morning. This is quite a unique feature as there are very few places where the sail needs the rail. Now the lucy emblem is that the try is put getting ready for sea. This vessel is modern with a gasoline engine to hoist the anchors and sail and walk the vessel in the dock. First mast on this government is the foremost second mast mainland third master business. You will notice the bow of this vessel at the entrance of the highest bay where the first naval battle of the revolution was drawn. We will now show you the good skill of both of the boat. Ten mill bridge many 50 years ago. Taking the cargo available to boothbay harbor. Shes going under her own sail. She is called a hand. This is the birth of the sailing out into the night in the southeasterly range. This is what i call the highlight of my career as lumberman. The night was filled with music and the tears that infest the bay show fold that ten errands and as silently steal away. The