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Show GHCAT HAFTS ON OCEAN. Immense Loads of Timber Transferred Trans-ferred Over the Sta, Nearly as large hh the largest tiuu -Atlantic liners nie Mime of the hiive sea iMfts hy means r which timber trHiihterred from the Columbia river nd i'lim.'t miiind to Shii KrancUco or soiithein Callforula. Occasionally those bundles or logs iuiantiro fi&O leet from end to end and contain at uiHti) as Tt.OOO pieces of timber'. To fasten such a raft so that It will withstand with-stand tho force of the seas to which It Is exposed In Ihe trip down the coast no little engineering skill Is requited. re-quited. Ah tho cigar shape olfers lesa renlslanco to the rorco of tho wavos than any other, this has been adopted. In ordur to pile the timber In this form it huge skeleton or shlpway Is (iiiistructitl. This Is practically it ciadle. which In moored In the water adjMcent to the boom where the raft timber Is cimtlnotl. Hy means of u liiMitn derrick the poles and piling are lilted fioui tho boom sIukI.v mil plated In the intiper position In the crulle Thuy are so adjusted n to overUp each other, the plan followed being somewhat similar to that In la) lug a In Ink wall, tho end of each stlik ' lieliiK placed opposite the center of the line adjacent to It tier completion the r.ifi U wrapped with Iron chains lasheil around It at liituv.iU rniiKlng from 1L' to 20 tool hi These chains are enmposod of iim mid onohalf Inch links and tho ends aro toggled together after tlio cIuiiih Imvu heeifistintchod tnut hy u , hand or steam windlass. To prevent ! tin . ti.ilns rrom fcllpplng iron staphs un driven through tho links into th i outside polos. In addition to tho cliiwn-i howover, "side lines," us they are called, consisting of wire rope, aie mieichud around tho raft botwt-, the luin suctions, so that whou tho wraiddiiK Is completed tho mass or iogM Ih l(ound together very securely Win n tho wrapping Is Mulshed the i.tfi is ruady for Inuiichliig. In iiiilldlng Ihe raft two two-iuth chain aro stretched lengthwls'o from end to (mil through tho center. Oim of thou Is bolted to a sort of bulkhead at one end, consisting of a band or 'Iron, which la fitted around tho projecting pro-jecting ends of Uiu outer pletcs. The otter chnlu la connoctod ut tho forward for-ward end wth tho towing hawser and scoured limldo the raft by lateral chains To movn this unwieldy bulk two iowerfiil steamers aro usually direct!) di-rect!) ahead and tho other to ltcep tii rif' la tho rlBht courne. |