Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — Am Enormous Raft. [ARTICLE]

Am Enormous Raft.

The steamer Novo which ait. \ed S&n Francisco recently from No had in tow no less than 5,000,0uv of lumber, The enormous size of this raft can be judged when it would take lat least seven schooners, carrying 800.000 feet each, to bring this load ,£n the ordinary manner. This raft is built on a patent owned by the Fort Bragg Redwood Company and Novo Lumber Company, and was ussd for the first time on this occasion. Unlike the famous Joggins raft, these logs ,are not strapped together. They are contained within a huge boom made of a number of smaller booms of peculiar construction. Each boom is 82 feet long, and composed of seven pieces of timber. Four of these are 12 inches square, and bolted at the end to fourfoot pieces, 16 inches square, and projecting sufficiently to allow of the attachment of a cable to which the booms are joined. The booms are joined and so arranged as to form a pear-shaped figure, into which are placed the logs, all loose. The whole is towed by a 2,000 foot tow line. On the passage down not a single log was lost. Average trips are made in two days, while the Noyo was only four days. To a man a woman’s dress is the surest index to her character. He at onoa associates simplicity in dress with a deal of common sense, and, whether all men will acknowledge it or no, that is the one qqality above all others which they most admire in a wo, man, and wish her to possess. In many respects this is a very short life, •bat, short as it may be, it is a vast ,deal too longer a man to have noth ing but a butterfly of fashion for a wile