Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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AN AROOSTOOK GRAIN FIELD. THE REDEl^ELOPMENT OF AN OLD STATE. 57
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FOB THE PULP-GRINDERS: TWENTY MILLION FEET OF SPRUCE LOGS STACKED AT MILLINOCKET. and in making paper. Hence, we have to look after thestreams and lakes, which are also cheap thoroughfaresfor transporting our material. If we destroyed the for-ests we should lose our supply of spruce logs, and ruinour water-power by making it irregular and undepend-able. It would mean not only After us the deluge ;there would come also the drought, and that would bestill worse. This manufacturers company took pains tosecure at the outset the ownership of three hun-dred tliousand acres of forest lands borderingthe rivers and their tributaries that were to fur-nish the motive power for two proposed greatmills,—a territory extending back for hundredsof miles into the northern wilderness. Then theForestry Bureau of the national government wasapplied to. A corps of experts was sent intothe Maine woods. The fruit of two or threeyears work was an accurate survey, close studiesthat gave the company an exact

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