In the center of town was a busy public wharf, from which were shipped vegetables, fish and lumber.
The settlers presumably shipped lumber back to Greenland, where there was virtually no timber and the forests of Europe were too far away.
The new bridge would make it easier to ship bluestone, slate and lumber via the railroad.
Logs were floated down the creek to the mill, and it shipped finished lumber over the railroad.
Even in the 1870s mills shipped lumber directly from some dog-holes to Asia and South America.
Newport shipped lumber in prior times.
Rafael Castro built a wharf, five hundred feet long, to ship hides, flour, and lumber during the 1850s.
This branch would provide a healthy income from the start, shipping stone, lumber, and coal from Mt. Carbon.
The Chungman River is used to ship raw lumber downstream.
Mr. Wheeler believes that in the next few weeks distributors will begin to ship lumber ordered at the lower price.