. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 44 CANADA LUMBERMAN When Robinson Cut the Price of Spruce Story of Practical Joke Between Two Rival Lumber Operators That Ended in Happy Christmas Reunion By Charles J. Brooks WHEN Mr. Longfellow began his story of Evangeline by citing "The" Forest Primeval," he had reasons; and when he concluded that beautiful poem by adding, "Still stands the Forest Primeval," he was not so far wrong. Not far from the village of Grand Pre, lies
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 44 CANADA LUMBERMAN When Robinson Cut the Price of Spruce Story of Practical Joke Between Two Rival Lumber Operators That Ended in Happy Christmas Reunion By Charles J. Brooks WHEN Mr. Longfellow began his story of Evangeline by citing "The" Forest Primeval," he had reasons; and when he concluded that beautiful poem by adding, "Still stands the Forest Primeval," he was not so far wrong. Not far from the village of Grand Pre, lies the town of Middleton, connected across the thick part of Nova Scotia, with the distant town of Bridgewater by the H. & S. W. Railway. This line crosses a country almost primitive m its wilderness; thickly wooded for the most part, and peopled only sparsely by a few hardy pioneers who are still satisfied to wrestle with the forest for a scanty living. For the most part, these cling closely to the railway; while "out back" an occasional sawmill camp pecks away at the heart of the woods, making a brief stir in the lonely vastness. It is a land of forest-clad hills between which blue lakes nestle. The home of bear and moose and red-deer—the game-lure which, every fall, entices the hunters from outside to endure its privations that they may try their skill. Midway between Middleton and Bridgewater on the H. & S. W. line, in the years before the war, the construction of a spur had been started westward through the wilderness, to tap the forest riches of 'this vast country. About ten miles the work progressed when the outbreak of war in 1914 called a halt. The work had never been resumed, and now, switches connecting with the main line locked, two melancholy streaks of rust disappeared into the bush as though striving to hide the disappointment of abandonment. Five miles back from the main line, two young men were trudging along this spur scouting around far from
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