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Gloomy Prospects For Log Driving

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Day
20
Month
April
Year
1877
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Public Domain
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From the Saginaw Courier. The prospeots for log driving on th Hinall gtreanis that etnpty into Tittubu wasseo, Chippewa and Tobacoo rivei look very gloomy ; and froin presen prospeots it would appear tbat man; million feot ot' logs put into thos atroams during the past winter are des tined to lay over until another season And such appears to bo the genera prospecta on the smaller tributaries o the Muskegon rivera, though to a niuc less extent. Water in tlio.su streams i lower than has been known for yoars a this soason of the year, and no logs caĆ­ be moved at the present low stago o water. . The Farwell Register says Groon' drive of over 3,000,000 feet in a bruno of the Tobacco River, about a mile ani a half from Farwell is nearly high hik dry, and canuot be run even by the aic of dairiH ; and for miles below where th stream is much larger, log-driving i not practical. On Dick and Torn Creek a tributary of the Muskegon River about the same state of things exist also on other tributaries of the saai stream, Chippewa and other rivers. On the Cass, Flint, Bad, and othe streams the water is reported fallin rapidly, and log ownerg stand on th ttreet corners with their hands in thei pockets a doleful expression on their faces, and sigh for rain. Mr. Henry Watterson, of the Louifl ville Courier-Journal, thus reviews hi Congressional experience : " The very brief and inoonsequentia term of publio service enjoyed by me i ended. It was at best a sort of holiduj a mere episode. As old Hard y says o his wife in Poole's comedy, ' I was gla( when I marrir d her, glad whilst sh lived, and glad when she died,' can say of my official exporienoe. I am onoe more an inde pinden t jonrnalis answerable direotly to the poople fo what I say and do, and inore responsi ble, and, for the matter of that, th more humble-minded, beonuse I beliov I possess their contideuce as well a their good will.

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