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... Lost in the Woods - Transportation Facilities - Advent of the Railway - Man the Conqueror - Rise of the Lumber Industry— The Inexhaustible Supply . 34 233663 CHAPTER IV THE FOREST INDUSTRIES Economic Importance of Forest Industries iii.
... Lost in the Woods - Transportation Facilities - Advent of the Railway - Man the Conqueror - Rise of the Lumber Industry— The Inexhaustible Supply . 34 233663 CHAPTER IV THE FOREST INDUSTRIES Economic Importance of Forest Industries iii.
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... Supply Last ? -Substitutes for Wood - How Lumbering is Carried on - Recent Changes in Method - Rafting -Booms and Dams - At the Mill - Grades of Lumber - Logging Railways - The Cruiser - The Lumber Camp - The River Drive -Lumbering in ...
... Supply Last ? -Substitutes for Wood - How Lumbering is Carried on - Recent Changes in Method - Rafting -Booms and Dams - At the Mill - Grades of Lumber - Logging Railways - The Cruiser - The Lumber Camp - The River Drive -Lumbering in ...
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... supply of many seed years may go to waste . But sooner or later an opportunity will come ; and the trees are always on the lookout to take advantage of accidents . One of the commonest of such acci- dents is the death and fall of one of ...
... supply of many seed years may go to waste . But sooner or later an opportunity will come ; and the trees are always on the lookout to take advantage of accidents . One of the commonest of such acci- dents is the death and fall of one of ...
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... supply England with tobacco and indigo ; the middle colonies were to furnish peltry . New England was long con- sidered the most useless of all " His Majesty's plantations , " for most of its natural products were of the kind that must ...
... supply England with tobacco and indigo ; the middle colonies were to furnish peltry . New England was long con- sidered the most useless of all " His Majesty's plantations , " for most of its natural products were of the kind that must ...
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... supply them with the needed lumber , would have seemed an utter absurdity to him . To be sure , where settlers came in thick and fast , the forest might disappear and farms take its place ; but then there would always be plenty of ...
... supply them with the needed lumber , would have seemed an utter absurdity to him . To be sure , where settlers came in thick and fast , the forest might disappear and farms take its place ; but then there would always be plenty of ...
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