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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: would absorb them or the members of them would be thrown forward
beyond the lowermost beat, to take charge of a new division down
stream. When the settled farm country or the little towns were
reached, many of the driving camps would become unnecessary; the men
could be boarded out at farms lying in their beats. A continual
advance would progress toward the Lake, the drive crews passing and
repassing each other like pigeons in the sown fields. Each of these
sections would be in charge of a foreman, whose responsibility
ceased with the delivery of the logs to the men next below. A
walking boss would trudge continually the river trail, or ride the
logs down stream, holding the correlation of these many units. Orde
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