. Canadian forest industries July-December 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. IT was a little town—perhaps to say it was a village would sound better. It had been made and afterward kepi in existence by the big sawmill that stood down beside the river, now fringed with ice. To the east and to the west, to the north and to the south, lay vast stretches of timberlands more or less cut over, but still able to furnish the monster sawmill with many more years of work. Being' isolated from the rest of the world, the people of Pineville
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1912. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. IT was a little town—perhaps to say it was a village would sound better. It had been made and afterward kepi in existence by the big sawmill that stood down beside the river, now fringed with ice. To the east and to the west, to the north and to the south, lay vast stretches of timberlands more or less cut over, but still able to furnish the monster sawmill with many more years of work. Being' isolated from the rest of the world, the people of Pineville were much on the order of one big family. There were never any dissensions, no factions; all was cordially and kindness among' them, and such a thing as different degrees of society was totally unknown. The company which owned the lumber operations was a good payer, and supplies were never wanting. Consequently the Pineville folk mourned little over their solitude. When mill foreman John Fenwicke suggested an innovation in the shape of a Christmas tree, he was immediately lauded for his thought- fulness by the men to whom he mentioned it. who were Arthur Allen the sawyer, and P>illy Ilixon the filer. Then the three talked the matter over with the entire mill crew, and every man of them fell in with the idea with great enthusiasm—and at the same time reached for their pocketbooks, which proved that the spirit was there. The result was that the next river steamer carried to Bartow, the nearest city and a seaport, a comparatively large order of the things that go to make up the line of presents one usually sees dangling from candle-lighted green branches, with artificial snow and glittering decorations. The presents came in due time, and the crew chose a committee of three to arrange the tree, which had already been brought and erected in the back of a large vacant cabin in the outskirts of the village. The committee composed of the foreman, the sawyer, and the filer, had g
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