Found another log mark

[lumbercamp]

It has been 19 months since I found my last log mark. I was long over due. I had been detecting along a slide, but the slide petered out, so I turned around and took a couple steps down hill. I decided, what the heck, I'm this far up the hollow, go another 30 yards. I found nothing going up, but coming back down the other side I found this mark. It was only about 1/2" under the dirt, in fact some was sticking out when I scraped the leaves off.

 

[seger98]

wow, that's an awesome find!

 

[Ron B]

Wow, that mark looks like it was just done!

This is going to sound ignorant, but what exactly is a log mark?

GRB

 

[civilman1]

That's awesome LC....Is there anyway of tracking the number down to a specific so called "Contractor" or camp? 19 mos. is pretty long,they have to be pretty scarce find.Nice piece of history LC

 

[Thomas007]

Nice find

From Michigan.gov website:


Loggers cut Michigan's white pine during the winter. Men and teams could work easily among the trees when the swampy forest ground was frozen. They piled the logs on the banks of rivers to wait for the spring thaw. When the rivers were swollen with water from the melting snows, the loggers floated the logs to the sawmills. The logs of many lumber companies floated together to the sawmill.

Owners used a heavy marking hammer to mark each end of their logs with a special design, a "log mark." The log mark let everyone know who owned the log. The log mark was first used near Muskegon in 1842. Each owner registered his mark with the county government. Log piracy was one of the earliest types of "industrial" crime in Michigan. Log thieves sometimes waited for the spring log drives and pulled choice logs from the river. They cut off the log ends and remarked the logs with their own mark.

 

[civilman1]

Nice find

From Michigan.gov website:


Loggers cut Michigan's white pine during the winter. Men and teams could work easily among the trees when the swampy forest ground was frozen. They piled the logs on the banks of rivers to wait for the spring thaw. When the rivers were swollen with water from the melting snows, the loggers floated the logs to the sawmills. The logs of many lumber companies floated together to the sawmill.

Owners used a heavy marking hammer to mark each end of their logs with a special design, a "log mark." The log mark let everyone know who owned the log. The log mark was first used near Muskegon in 1842. Each owner registered his mark with the county government. Log piracy was one of the earliest types of "industrial" crime in Michigan. Log thieves sometimes waited for the spring log drives and pulled choice logs from the river. They cut off the log ends and remarked the logs with their own mark.

Too bad they didn't think about putting the "mark" in the center of the log,it would have been milled off anyway.....Thank's for the history lesson Sanat

 

[Michiganne]

Wow, neat find! Don you know who it belonged to or can you trace it?

HH

 

[Bridge End Farm]

awesome discovery!!

Ever find one that has BEF I buy it from you