Author
Title
End of Lumber Industry in Sight, The; Great Traffic of North Is Fast Ebbing; The Pine Forests Denuded; Of Great List of Old Mills, Few Now Running
Series
Des Moines Register, 19 May 1907, p. 8.
Publisher
City
Des Moines
Date
1907
Original Date
Comments
Extracts:
"Few writers have attempted to explain the cause of this decline, although all have united in saying that the heavy demand for pine has completely destroyed the once mammouth timber tracts covering the northern portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin."
"The list of concerns cutting northern pine lumber between 1896 and 1907 is most imposing as it is a most sorrowful array. The follow: .... "Ashland District .... "Salsick [sic] & Wilson, Star Lake, Wis."
Libraries
- Bookwood Historical Collection, Star Lake