| #15. Flume (About 1924-1940 - this one is the Lumberton Flume - named after a town
in the Kootneys - it no longer exists)
These structures were expensive and very difficult to build - they were like old irrigation ditches built off the ground through which water flowed assisting logs to travel
Once the trees were used up in the area they had started in, the workers would have to go further away from the camp for the wood
This also enabled them to get the wood from high locations - the logs would then float down the flume to the mill yard
Some of the flumes were miles long - but because they used water (self-renewing), there wasn't an ongoing transportation cost
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