That's quite a load!

Here at "The River Calls" we'll show you some of what the big timber camps were really like. This load of logs is so large that it makes the team of horses look pretty small. Once the horses got the load moving, you had the problem of keeping it under control. That little tiny man walked along side of the moving load and if it got going a little too fast, he'd throw a little hay on the iced road to slow it down.

If the load got moving a little too fast, the man always had an emergency plan, but the problem was that it ruined the road. He could throw a little gravel down and that stopped the load..... permanently. A new road had to be built and iced with the water wagon.

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Good Reading,
Ron