Ouachita River Recovered Old Growth Logs

Treasure Logs , LLC offers fine virgin growth heart pine and cypress lumber for the most discerning home builders and owners. All lumber is milled from logs recovered from the Ouachita River in North Louisiana. Most of the trees from which our virgin-cut heart of pine is processed, were growing long before Columbus arrived here in the New World, a time before air pollution and chemical fertilizers polluted our natural forests. Most assuredly, some of these pine and cypress logs have been lying on the bottom of the river for 200 years. In addition, resting at 40'-50'under water for over a century has protected it from oxidation, infestation and insecticides. It is simply some of the purest wood that can be purchased. The earliest documented sawmill operation on the banks of the Ouachita around West Monroe, Louisiana was the Bry sawmill built in about 1805, by Judge Isaac Bry. Judge Bry received a land grant from Juan Baptiste Fihiol in 1804. Logs were transported to the sawmill down the Ouachita River on log rafts of several hundred logs and then towed up the banks of the river into the mill by teams of mules and oxen. The lumber was processed by hand and manual saws into beams and lumber. It was then shipped mainly to New Orleans by flat barge and later by steamboat. Due to the density of this virgin 200-1200 year old timber, and the lack of power for the log rafts, they frequently became jammed in the river bends. The slightest amount of silt on top of the log rafts would sink the entire raft. These sinker logs have been sitting on the bottom of the river, protected from pollution and the elements for a hundred or more years. In 1885, the broad axe became obsolete and was no longer used as a harvesting tool. Significant numbers of our logs still have the artifact markings of being cut with a broad axe. Our old growth lumber is literally snatched from the hand of an earlier time. Recovering this eye-appealing and robust lumber not only provides unmatched beauty in woodwork but has a positive impact on our environment as no trees are cut to produce this product. The clear, tight grain flooring seen in homes built in the 1800's is now available once again from Treasure Logs, LLC.

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