Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Mining a Sunken Forest. [ARTICLE]

Mining a Sunken Forest.

Thp q is q sunken forest of white cedar on the ooast of New Jersey whicn has been continuously “mined” for itvaluable timber for more than eight years. The curious indus .ry of diegin.' for these sunken logs is carried on by the people of Denmsville, a village which was brought into existence solely thiough the wealth of the buried timbe • in its vicinity. Over this Sunken forest trees of large size are now growing, an I in many instances the growing timber is cut away in order to get at the 'more valuable logs which lie only three or four feet beneath the surface. It la believed that they were sunk by an earthquake. ' ■ •'