Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 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 maqy citizens. It Is the novel business of mining cedar trees —digging far beneath the surface Immense logs of sound and aromatic cedar. The fallen and submergid cedar forests of southern New Jersey were discovered first beneath the Dennlsville swamps, seventy-five years ago, and have been a constant source of interest to geologists end scientists generally ever since. There ora standing nowhere at the present day such enormous specimens'of cedar as are'fonnd embedded in the'deep muck of'the Dennlsville swamps.— Scientific American.

He Had It.

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