Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — Mining a Sunken Forest. [ARTICLE]

Mining a Sunken Forest.

There is a sunken forest of white cedar on the coast of New Jersey which has been continuously “mined” for its valuable timber for more than eight;/ yeaiß. The curious industry of digging for these sunken logs is carried on by the people of Dennisvilie, a village which was brought into existence solely through the wealth of the buried timber in its vicinity. Over this sunken forest trees of large size are now growing, and 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 is believed that they were sunk by an earthquake.