An architectural monograph on old Woodbvry & adjacent domestic architecture in Connecticut, (1916)
Bessell, Wesley Sherwood, b. 1883, Whitehead, Russell F. (Russell Fenimore), 1884-1954 · [St. Paul, White Pine Bureau] · leaf 16
timates ofstanding timber is shown by an experience ofmy father, the late Frederick Weyerhaeuser.When he began manufacturing White Pine lum-ber at Rock Island, Illinois, in 1859, he lookedabout for a dependable source of logs for thesaw-mill. Black River in Wisconsin was thenearest stream from… … FRHDERICK K. WK-lKRHAKUSKR able quantities were driven down the BlackRiver for forty years afterwards. While it may seem incredible, as early as1650 fears were expressed that the very largeforeign trade would soon deplete the supply ofWhite Pine timber, which was then cut mainlyon the Piscataqua…
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