. . . for many previous winters, thousands of axes have almost
incessantly sounded, are almost silent this season. The sturdy lumbermen are away to the wars and
the pine will stand another year. The
same is to a large extent true of the lumber district of the Northwest.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 8, 1862, p. 2
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