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The winter cut was successful and in the spring two steam powered vessels, a paddle wheel tugboat called the Alligator hauled the logs off shore and the Steam Ship Lady Mary towed the booms of logs to the holding boom around the sawmill jack ladder.15
The holding boom at Millertown.1901
Millertown, Newfoundland, Canada
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From the holding boom the logs could be hauled out of the lake and into the sawmill by a set of four steam driven jack ladders.17
The lumber sorting and grading yard.1901
Millertown, Newfoundland, Canada
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After getting started, the pine proved to be of inferior quality or, the best that could be said for it - second class. Sorted lumber was loaded on railway cars and the company locomotive hauled them to the main railway line at what became know as Millertown Junction.19
Little Burnt Bay1900
Little Burnt Bay, (Lewisporte) Newfoundland, Canada
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For shipping the lumber overseas, another branch railway line had to be laid from the main line at Notre Dame Junction, eight miles to Little Burnt Bay.21
Building a loading wharf.1900
Little Burnt Bay, (Lewisporte) Newfoundland, Canada
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Here storage and loading facilities had to be built for loading ships bound to his European market for which the lumber was destined. |
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