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If the stream happens to be navigable , the promoter must first get an Improvement Charter from a board of control appointed by the State . So Thorpe knew that he had to deal , not with a hand-to-mouth-timber-thief , but with a great company preparing to log the country on a big scale . He continued his journey . At noon he came to another and similar structure . The pine forest had yielded to knolls of hardwood separated by swamp-holes of blackthorn . Here he left his pack and pushed ahead in light marching order . About eight miles above the first dam , and eighteen from the bend of the river , he ran into a `` slashing '' of the year before .