A LOAD OF MICHIGAN PINE LOGS.—The lumber industry in Michigan is conducted on a grand scale, and something of the methods pursued was illustrated by a firm which contributed a single load of logs to the Exposition. Twenty-five saw logs were shown in a single load at the Centennial Exposition. Michigan simply doubled this. Never before was seen such a load of logs. It consisted of fifty magnificent lengths of white pine, borne on a single sled, containing forty-six thousand feet of lumber, and weighing one hundred and forty-five tons. This load was drawn six miles to the Ontonagon River in Michigan by a single span of horses, but of course this was down an incline and on a roadway smooth as ice could be. Nine flat-cars were required for the transportation of the great load to Chicago. This was part of the exhibit made in a Logger’s Camp, in which it was intended to illustrate the methods by which the great lumber product of the lake states is finally brought to the markets of the world. There was a log cabin seventy feet in length by twenty in width, occupied by lumbermen dressed in the style of the woods, and living, theoretically, on the winter fare of such locality, but it is doubtful if they really consumed on warm, idle days, any great amount of either Johnny-cake or pork and beans and black molasses. Near by was a saw mill, two hundred by one hundred and twenty-five feet in dimensions, and here were displayed the latest appliances for handling timber, while hire also were sawed many of the pieces used in the construction of the Forestry Building.

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