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R. How did they manage to get… was there a constant flow of water in the river, or did they control the flow?
H. Oh, no. They had dams. They dammed to hold the water.
R. Okay.
H. Dam it. You let the log go, and you open the dam.
H. And that water was carried for one day. It would be all dry above the dam, you put your blocks in. Now, if you get a lake all the time you built your dam up, and you get a lake, you have a lake to toll your logs on. And then your dam’s building up water again for the next gang coming.
R. Oh, I see.
H. And sometimes there was three coming down the same river drive. But the logs were all stamped. J.R. Booth had his own stamp on. And McLachlan Brothers had their stamp on. Canadian Timber had their stamp on. When them logs — it would go by stamps, when they get down to the lake, because a lot of them logs get all mixed up.
R. What kind of stamp was this?
H. Well, you have a stamp handy and you put it on the skidway. When you put your logs on the skidway and you drive it in, and it goes in half an inch into the wood.
R. I see.
H. And it leave a figure. You know, J. R. Booth’s numbers were in the log.
