http://www.ifallsdailyjournal.com/news/about-local-folks/when-wood-was-moved-water-faye-whitbeck-staff-writer-10204 Comments for "When wood was moved by water, By FAYE WHITBECK, Staff Writer" en http://www.ifallsdailyjournal.com/news/about-local-folks/when-wood-was-moved-water-faye-whitbeck-staff-writer-10204 <p>Arden Barnes’ functioning Russel tug boat is monument to an era</p> <p>In the early days of local paper manufacturing, the first step of the process was floating logged trees into “booms” on Rainy Lake where they merged with thousands of others for the journey west.<br /> These booms made their hurdled journey around Rainy’s bottle necked island points and narrowed rock passages until they reached the wide open spaces of Sand Bay.</p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.ifallsdailyjournal.com/news/about-local-folks/when-wood-was-moved-water-faye-whitbeck-staff-writer-10204">read more</a></p> http://www.ifallsdailyjournal.com/news/about-local-folks/when-wood-was-moved-water-faye-whitbeck-staff-writer-10204#comments About Local Folks Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:12:54 -0500 Faye Whitbeck 10204 at http://www.ifallsdailyjournal.com