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Robertson raft Lumbering, Hist. 
a huge, cigar-shaped raft of as many as 22,000 logs, devised by Hugh Robertson of Saint John, N.B., in 1886 and in use for several decades in the lumbering industry for transporting logs in the Atlantic and Pacific. [See picture at Robertson raft.]
- 1965 [Caption] The raft in the photograph below was a Robertson raft built in 1902. . . .
- 1965 [Caption] This Robertson raft on the Columbia river was so long only half of it was shown in stereoscopic picture taken in 1902.
- 1965 [Caption] The raft in the photograph below was a Robertson raft built in 1902. . . .