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Logs falling from a flume into the Ausable River

Pulp logs falling from flume into the Ausable River. Circa 1890-1900. Essex County.

Photographer was F.A. Van Sant. Originally in History of the lumber industry in the state of New York, by William H. Fox Forest, Fish & Game Commission report, 1900.

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