What to see in America . a tracthas been cut over, therefuse might well markthe trail of a the culls left standing as not worth felling would make the biggest ofthe timber logs in some of the Maine drives look like kin-dlings. In the virgin forest the straight clean trunks ofstanding timber are like the columns of a wonderful cathe-dral. Many of them have been growing since the timewhen Columbus found this continent of ours — and they areall doomed to be destroyed by puny bustling swearing menwith saws and axes. When the long rains of autumn fall, the men work in a dense anddamp un
What to see in America . a tracthas been cut over, therefuse might well markthe trail of a the culls left standing as not worth felling would make the biggest ofthe timber logs in some of the Maine drives look like kin-dlings. In the virgin forest the straight clean trunks ofstanding timber are like the columns of a wonderful cathe-dral. Many of them have been growing since the timewhen Columbus found this continent of ours — and they areall doomed to be destroyed by puny bustling swearing menwith saws and axes. When the long rains of autumn fall, the men work in a dense anddamp undergrowth in mud andslime up to their knees formonths. It is slippery, tryingwork. The preliminary labor offelling a tree is done with axes,and then the sawyers finish. Afalling tree fills the air with tornbranches and fragments of thesmaller trees that are in itsshattering path, and smites theground with the noise of thunder,and with a force that makes theearth tremble. Spur tracks runoff into the woods, and a donkey. Washington Rock, WaldronIsland 538 What to See in America engine hauls in the logs. Snohomish County alone hasforty sawmills and one hundred shingle mills, and the char-acteristic perfume of Everett, its commercial center, is thatof newly sawn lumber. A hundred miles directly east of Everett is that gem ofmountain lakes, Chelan, a thousand feet above the sea, fiftymiles long, and one mile narrow. Its outlet is a contortedfour-mile gorge that connects it with the Columbia. At thelower end are comfortable hotels; and sight-seers are con-veyed the entire length of the azure highway by severalsteamers. It is a rift of blue in a glacial abyss of greatdepth amid ranks of snowy peaks. There is not such an-other furrow on the face of the western hemisphere. Forimmensity and chaotic sublimity it is unsurpassed. Bellingham is the point of departure for Mt. Baker, thirtymiles to the east. The first explorers of this great peak,11,000 feet high, visited it in 1869. On the
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