Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — Mining Cedar Trees. [ARTICLE]

Mining Cedar Trees.

An Industry, the like of which does not exist anywhere else in the world, furnishes scores of people in Cape May County? New Jersey, with remunerative employment, and has made comfortable fortunes for many citizens. It Is the novel business of mining cedar trees—digging far beneath the surface Immense togs of sound and aromatic cedar. The fallen and submerged cedar forests of southern New Jersey were discovered first beneath the Denntavllle swamps seventy-five years ago, and have been a constant source of Interest to geologists and scientists generally ever since. There are standing nowhere at the present day such enormous specimens of cedar aa are found embedded tn the deep muck of the Dennisville swamps.— Scientific American.