This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...logs are usually drawn on sleds in winter. It is easy to draw them in that way. Roads in the forest are rough, but when the snow comes it fills the low places and makes the roads smooth. Where there is no snow, tracks are sometimes laid in the forest and on these cars are run. The mills are usually so far away that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...logs are usually drawn on sleds in winter. It is easy to draw them in that way. Roads in the forest are rough, but when the snow comes it fills the low places and makes the roads smooth. Where there is no snow, tracks are sometimes laid in the forest and on these cars are run. The mills are usually so far away that logs cannot be drawn to them. They are drawn, instead, to the bank of some stream or river. When the snow melts in the Logs on the way to the Mill spring, making the water run high and fast, the logs are rolled into the stream and float many miles down to the mills where they are sawed. Most lumber mills are on. the banks of rivers, where logs can be floated to them and where water power can be obtained. Some, however, are driven by steam power, and some small mills, called portable mills, are moved about from place to place. As soon as all the trees of one small forest bave been sawed, the portable mill is moved to another place. As logs float down the rivers they are stopped near the mills where they are to be manufactured. Here they are sawed into timbers and boards, shingles for the roofs of buildings, clapboards to cover the walls, and into many other useful forms. The lumber is then carried away, to be used in cities and towns that have no timber forests near them. Lumber mills are usually built near rivers or railroads. Lumber is heavy and can be sent most easily and cheaply by water to any cities that vessels-can reach. Some of the lumber centers for the forests in the northeastern part of the country are Bangor, Augusta, Lewiston, and Auburn. Much of the lumber from the region about the Great Lakes is sent to Minneapolis, Duluth, Superior, Chicago, Saginaw, and Grand Rapids. In the northwestern forest region Seattle and Tacoma are great ...
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