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 150 FEDERAL REPORTER. �uated upon the head waters of the Chippewa river, pine logs and timber, and casting them upon the waters of said river to be floated by force of the current, during spring and early Bummer, down the said river, for the distance of about 150 miles, to the booms of said company at Beef Slough. That in the beginning the number of logs so eut and cast upon said ^¥ater^ was comparatively small, but the said company have since, in combination with the other defendants to this bill, continually increased the extent of such business and the quantity of logs so cast upon said waters, and with each suc- cessive year increased the obstructions and dangers to navi- gation. �That subsequently said Beef Slough Company eomoined with the Mississippi Eiver Logging Company, and greatly increased the said business of cutting and iloating logs upon said river, and greatly augmented the said obstructions to navigation. �That for the purpose of securmg some colorable right to such operations the defendant, the Chippewa Eiver Improve- nient and Log Driving Company, was organized by articles dated the first day of February, A. D. 1876, for the purpose of driving and transporting logs and timber from the upper waters of the Chippewa and tributaries to and into Beef Slough, and to improve said Chippewa river and its tributa- ries, by constructing dams and piers, booms, levees, dykes,. cut-offs and such other structures, in such other streams as may be deemed necessary to insure or increase the facility of such streams for the running, Iloating or driving of loga or timber, with power to charge and receive a reasonable sum by way of compensation on the logs or timber so run or floated. �That since the date of the said articles the three corpora- tions aforesaid had united to injure and destroy the navigation of said river, and have largely increased their operations aforesaid, so that during the year 1877 the said defendants did, directly and indirectly, cast upon and cause to float down the said river to Beef Slough about 200,000,000 feet, board measure, of pine logs, being about 1,000,000 of such logs in number. And the said defendants, combiiiiiig, give out and ��� �