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Michigan History Volume 3

George Newman Fuller

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Description: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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...and wherein the evenings were enlivened with cards, story-telling, and dancing. The garb of the "shantyboys" would be a topic by itself, with mackinaws of most flashy hues, heavy spiked boots and choppedoff trousers. The cook and the cooking, the riverdriving, and the "drives" that followed the coming down of the drive; each of these and many other branches of my topic form subjects for historical elaboration which I hope will find treatment in the system of historical research now being introduced through our schools, fostered by the Development Bureau of this Peninsula. Avoiding most of the detail, still, to illustrate the magnitude of the lumbering operations a few figures I trust will be pardonable, as best showing the rise and the decadence of the pine lumber industry. I am unable to learn that data has ever been assembled to show the extent of the industry in the Peninsula or in any part thereof, though at some points quite complete record has been made by the boom companies of the logs floated down the various rivers. As Menominee River is the most prominent of the lumbering streams, we will use it for illustration, with the suggestion that while a portion of its log product came from the Wisconsin side, at the same time large quantities of logs were handled by rail, of which no record seems obtainable. The Menominee River Boom Company has operated from 1868 to the present time and during that period has passed through its booms 10,808,749,178 feet of logs. The mind can hardly appreciate the immensity of these figures. Taking another view, and placing a fair average value of $18 per thousand upon these logs we have a total value of $194,550,000 of the rough lumber product that has floated down this one river. One...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Michigan History Volume 3. To get started finding Michigan History Volume 3, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1151183970

Description: 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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...and wherein the evenings were enlivened with cards, story-telling, and dancing. The garb of the "shantyboys" would be a topic by itself, with mackinaws of most flashy hues, heavy spiked boots and choppedoff trousers. The cook and the cooking, the riverdriving, and the "drives" that followed the coming down of the drive; each of these and many other branches of my topic form subjects for historical elaboration which I hope will find treatment in the system of historical research now being introduced through our schools, fostered by the Development Bureau of this Peninsula. Avoiding most of the detail, still, to illustrate the magnitude of the lumbering operations a few figures I trust will be pardonable, as best showing the rise and the decadence of the pine lumber industry. I am unable to learn that data has ever been assembled to show the extent of the industry in the Peninsula or in any part thereof, though at some points quite complete record has been made by the boom companies of the logs floated down the various rivers. As Menominee River is the most prominent of the lumbering streams, we will use it for illustration, with the suggestion that while a portion of its log product came from the Wisconsin side, at the same time large quantities of logs were handled by rail, of which no record seems obtainable. The Menominee River Boom Company has operated from 1868 to the present time and during that period has passed through its booms 10,808,749,178 feet of logs. The mind can hardly appreciate the immensity of these figures. Taking another view, and placing a fair average value of $18 per thousand upon these logs we have a total value of $194,550,000 of the rough lumber product that has floated down this one river. One...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Michigan History Volume 3. To get started finding Michigan History Volume 3, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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