Great American Industries Series
TWO YOUNG LUMBERMEN
OR
FROM MAINE TO OREGON FOR FORTUNE
BY EDWARD STRATEMEYER
Author of "At the Fall of Montreal," "Young Explorers of the
Isthmus," "American Boy's Life of William McKinley,"
"Old Glory Series," "Between Boer and
Briton," "On to Pekin," etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. SHUTE
BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD
1903
Published, October, 1903
Copyright, 1903, by Lee and Shepard
All rights reserved
Norwood Press
Berwick & Smith
Norwood, Mass.
U. S. A.
PREFACE
"Two Young Lumbermen" is a complete story in itself, but formsthe first volume of a line to be issued under the general title of"Great American Industries Series."
In beginning this series, I have in mind to acquaint our boys and youngmen with the main details of a number of industries which have becomeof prime importance, not alone to ourselves as a nation, but likewiseto a large part of the world in general.
Our United States is a large country and consequently the industriesare many, yet none is perhaps of greater importance than that of thelumber trade. Lumber gives us material for our buildings and our ships,our railroads and our telegraph lines, and furnishes the pulp fromwhich millions of pounds of paper are made annually. We export lumberto Europe, to the West Indies, and even to the Orient, drawing on aforest treasure that covers thousands of square miles of territory.
The tale opens in Maine, which in years gone by was the paradise ofthe American lumberman. In those days pine was king, and Maine becameknown far and wide as the Pine Tree State. When the best of the pinehad disappeared, spruce claimed the logger's attention; and then thelumberman looked elsewhere for his timber, first in Michigan and alongthe Great Lakes, and in the South, and then in California, and in thatvast section of our country drained by the Columbia (or Oregon) River.
The two young lumbermen of this story are hardly heroes in the acceptedsense of that term. They are bright youths of to-day, willing towork hard for what they get, but always on the alert to better theircondition. As choppers, river-drivers, mill hands, and general campworkers they have a variety of adventures, but only such as fall to thelot of more than one lumberman working in the woods of Maine, Michigan,or Oregon to-day. It was in the Far West that they found their greatestopportunity for advancement, and how they made the most of that chanceis described in the pages which follow.
In presenting this work the author desires once again to thank the manywho have interested themselves in his previous books. May they find thereading of this volume even more interesting and profitable.
Edward Stratemeyer.
August 1, 1903.
CONTENTS
| I. | A Talk about Employment |
| II. | What Happened at the Brook |
| III. | Two Young Lumbermen at Home |
| IV. |