Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — Mining a Sunken Forest. [ARTICLE]

Mining a Sunken Forest.

There is a sunken forest of white eedar on the coast of New Jersey which has been continuously “mined" for its valuable timber for more than eighty yeafs. The curious industry of digging for these sunken logs is carried on by the people of Dennisville, 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 He only three or four feet beneath the surface. It is believed that they were sunk by an earthquake. ’