. A complete geography. Fig. 154. Chopping down a tree inWashington. The menstand on platforms soas to reacli above thedecayed wood near Fig. 155. One of the great logs ready to be removed from the forest in Washington. A small engine,used to draw the logs to the railway, is also shown. THE WESTERN STATES 159 wonderful sight may be seen. The tree bends slowly over, quickens itsmovement, then falls to the ground with a mighty roar, breaking good-sized trees, against which it falls, as if they were twigs. After the branches are removed, the tree is sawed into logs of differentlengths,
. A complete geography. Fig. 154. Chopping down a tree inWashington. The menstand on platforms soas to reacli above thedecayed wood near Fig. 155. One of the great logs ready to be removed from the forest in Washington. A small engine,used to draw the logs to the railway, is also shown. THE WESTERN STATES 159 wonderful sight may be seen. The tree bends slowly over, quickens itsmovement, then falls to the ground with a mighty roar, breaking good-sized trees, against which it falls, as if they were twigs. After the branches are removed, the tree is sawed into logs of differentlengths, as twenty-four, thirty-two, forty-eight feet, and these are draggedto a railway which leads up into the forest. Several of these sections arethen fastened together, one behind the other, and dragged between therails to the foot of the mountain several miles away. There they arepiled upon flat cars and taken to the mills, a single section sometimesoccupying an entire car. Many go to Tacoma and Seattle, where thereare enormous sawmills. Since there is so much lumber, many of thestreets of Tacoma, and other places in this region, are paved wit
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