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THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF
CAPT. STEPHEN B. HANKS,

 

TAKING A RAFT THROUGH LAKE ST. CROIX

 

June 25, 1921

   At last we were ready for the drive as soon as the ice should be melted in the first lake, that is Pokegema, which occurred some time in April.  At the entrance to that lake we boomed all our logs and then started down the lake.  A north wind helped us out and we soon drifted to the foot of the lake where the boom was opened and the logs let loose in the river to be again boomed just before going into Cross Lake.  About this time another lot of logs from a camp on upper Snake river, above the Indian farm, came along and we worked together, We were not very fortunate, as the river did not have the usual rise that spring and most of the logs were hung up and boomed at the outlet of Cross Lake and in the lower Snake river and very few of them reached the mill that season.

 
     

Collected and Transcribed by

Georgeann McClure

 

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