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The lumber industry covered a large scope of participation.
Speculators buying ground with access to timber distribution routes made money on some of it. Understandably.
The white pine stands were many and followed .
Along a suitable river and the saws started hissing away.
Small scale railroads crept inland. With money needed to build them.
Tree cutting was work no doubt. And dangerous in it's way.
A shingle mill near my location sent workers/cutters post logging to cut the residual great white pine stumps.
A worker recorded their positions while sawing due to mill boss's thrift and wanting the prior wintertime cut trees stumps cut as near the ground as possible ; as as if they were praying.
A wise man could have sat on his gold.
Watching others get involved in the industry from building a simple nomadic sash mill or a portable logging camp or even running (selling and delivering) supplies for either or both would make not investing in a course other than being a sawyer a challenge at times.
I'm not saying larson didn't run a misery whip for a living.
Accounts tell of businessmen visiting other young communities at times. A dinner mentioned in one account as if it wasn't uncommon.
Banks existed. Yes distant at times but part of a diverse way to secure funds.
A fire (not uncommon following logging) a broken leg or logging injury or robbery in a mobile enterprise (cutting timber) and being able to extract something from a nearby bank has merit.
Cutover land was the result of logging. Speculator sold to company. Company divested post logging. Or?
Amid the cutovers followed small steam engine outfits and probably others salvaging/gleaning what they could.
The small scale rails removed and relocated.
Sawmills moved or shuttered. Some switched to hardwoods probably.
But the Larsons followed the new cuttings. Or changed jobs within the industry.
IF he remained nomadic his gold under a church may or may not have been secure.
True story.
Grandfather returned to a no longer used church he had hand crafted the walnut sills for and "repossessed" them. ( I don't know what had gone on above them regarding materials prior.)
Had someone farmed the site after it might have made the potential cache site noticeable. If not scattered.
Speculators buying ground with access to timber distribution routes made money on some of it. Understandably.
The white pine stands were many and followed .
Along a suitable river and the saws started hissing away.
Small scale railroads crept inland. With money needed to build them.
Tree cutting was work no doubt. And dangerous in it's way.
A shingle mill near my location sent workers/cutters post logging to cut the residual great white pine stumps.
A worker recorded their positions while sawing due to mill boss's thrift and wanting the prior wintertime cut trees stumps cut as near the ground as possible ; as as if they were praying.
A wise man could have sat on his gold.
Watching others get involved in the industry from building a simple nomadic sash mill or a portable logging camp or even running (selling and delivering) supplies for either or both would make not investing in a course other than being a sawyer a challenge at times.
I'm not saying larson didn't run a misery whip for a living.
Accounts tell of businessmen visiting other young communities at times. A dinner mentioned in one account as if it wasn't uncommon.
Banks existed. Yes distant at times but part of a diverse way to secure funds.
A fire (not uncommon following logging) a broken leg or logging injury or robbery in a mobile enterprise (cutting timber) and being able to extract something from a nearby bank has merit.
Cutover land was the result of logging. Speculator sold to company. Company divested post logging. Or?
Amid the cutovers followed small steam engine outfits and probably others salvaging/gleaning what they could.
The small scale rails removed and relocated.
Sawmills moved or shuttered. Some switched to hardwoods probably.
But the Larsons followed the new cuttings. Or changed jobs within the industry.
IF he remained nomadic his gold under a church may or may not have been secure.
True story.
Grandfather returned to a no longer used church he had hand crafted the walnut sills for and "repossessed" them. ( I don't know what had gone on above them regarding materials prior.)
Had someone farmed the site after it might have made the potential cache site noticeable. If not scattered.
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