Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)

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82 THE MOVING PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE tiny, glistening ribbon far below. In the gray of the morning, when the start is made, the air seems cool; but as the sun brightens, the dampness is absorbed. The fragrant breath of the pines, the scent of the flowers, the sparkling streamlets, trickling down over huge, moss-imbedded and ferndecked rocks on every side, charm the senses of the most unpoetic, and quite enthrall the nature lover. At times, the gaps in the mountains become so narrow that the sky is but a narrow strip; oi: blue, standing out in bold relief from an exquisite frame of forest green. : At certain points, a view can be secured of no less than eight or ten mountains extending down into one ravine. It is a real lumber country. Walnut,: yellow poplar, pine — almost every variety*: of ■ timber known in this section of the country is represented. And "there are some mute evidences of the past./ An old log chute, evidently constructed in the clays of long ago, tells a story as plainly as words. It is partly filled with logs. Work had been pushed rapidly, when the spring "break up" occurred, and everything had to be abandoned just as it stood. Some of the logs are moss-covered now, but they silently tell the story of logging as it was conducted in the days when nature was expected to work unassisted, and when, in order to get the logs to the mills, it was necessary to wait for a "freshet." Now, nature is given many reinforcements. In many places the mountain railway is nature's principal crutch; but, at this borderland point, a railroad is an impossibility: so the waters of Elkhorn Creek are banked, forming an immense reservoir, into which the newly cut tree-logs are thrown, until sometimes more than 100,000 logs are there ready for shipping. Life in a lumber camp, to those who live it year after year, is monotonous and uneventful. It is very still. In EVERY LOG IS MARKED WITH THE COMPANY'S MARK.