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THE
LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF
CAPT. STEPHEN B. HANKS,
TAKING A RAFT THROUGH LAKE ST. CROIX
June 25, 1921
At last we were ready for the drive as
soon as the ice should be melted in the first lake, that is
Pokegema, which occurred some time in April. At the entrance
to that lake we boomed all our logs and then started down the
lake. A north wind helped us out and we soon drifted to the
foot of the lake where the boom was opened and the logs let
loose in the river to be again boomed just before going into
Cross Lake. About this time another lot of logs from a camp
on upper Snake river, above the Indian farm, came along and we
worked together, We were not very fortunate, as the river did
not have the usual rise that spring and most of the logs were
hung up and boomed at the outlet of Cross Lake and in the
lower Snake river and very few of them reached the mill that
season. |
