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Mr. M. H. McCarthy 1889

MCCARTHY

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 5/9/2017 at 23:05:53

The Clinton Age, Clinton, Iowa, February 1, 1889

Mr. M. H. McCarthy, of the Standard Lumber Company of Dubuque, has returned from the pineries. He reports that large quantities of logs are now be hauled to the streams. There is no snow, but ditches and runways, the width of a sled are dug, filled with broken ice on which water is sprinkled, and in these runaways sleds are used to get the logs to the streams


 

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