Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — 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 salsaHe timber for more than eighth yeacs. The curious industry of digging tor these sunken logs is carried on by the people of Dennisville, a village which was brought into existence solelj through the wealth of the buried timber tn it* vicinity. Over this sunken forest trees of large sire are now growing, and in many instances the growing timber 1* cut away in order to get at the more valuable logs which He only three or tour feet beneath the surface. It Is bo lievsd that they were sunk by an earthquake.