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Title: The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers

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SHIPPING LUMBER. when they heard of the manner of his death, said he was never drownedon the river, because he was destined to perish in a less honorable way. But what becomes of the logs when the river-men get through withthem? Harry inquired. They are cut into planks and boards in the saw-mills near tide-water.There are some of the mills that keep as many as a hundred saws in oper-ation, and in the busy season they run them day and night. The lumberis loaded into ships, and sent wherever it is wanted. You have Mainelumber in JSTew York and nearly every other city of the Atlantic coast,and it goes also to foreign countries, though not in great quantities. But 11G THE YOUNG NIMRODS. I will not undertake to give you the figures showing the extent of thetrade, mainly because I do not happen to have them at hand. Perhapsbefore you leave the State you may have an opportunity to visit some ofthe saw-mills, and see for yourselves how the work there is carried on.
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THE LAST MAN IN THE SEASONS DKIVE. SCENES IN A LOGGING CAMP. 117 CHAPTER IX. SCENES IN A LOGGING CAMP.—CHARLEY AND THE CATAMOUNT. THE stage-coach carried the party toward its destination. The boysobserved that every hour as they proceeded the country becamemore and more wooded, and at length they found the clearings were sorare that the forest was almost unbroken. As they entered the woodedregion they found the ground covered with snow to a depth of two, andsometimes three feet. The road was well trodden, and the great sleighwith its four horses went merrily along. They readied the end of thestage-route at a village on the edge of a wide-spreading forest, and fromthence their journey was continued by private conveyance. It was evening when they reached the camp of the loggers, where Joewas to find the witnesses he wanted. They were welcome visitors, as theloggers are generally quite isolated during the winter, and if a strangerhappens among them, he is regarded as a bearer of the ne

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