Lumber Industry In The 1890s

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The lumber industry goes all the way back to 1890s and it's still here today and that's along time from when it started. By the 1900, more than 400 companies were operating in Minnesota but that's just Minnesota. So lumber was a big thing lumber needed to be in minnesota.
Minnesota ranked 3rd in lumber production Minnesota had one of the best machines to chop down trees. It was hard for the lumberjacks because technology was not around in the 1800. They had lost of lumber from the trees and these are the things they had with lumber logging camps,houses, and work offices for lumberjacks, and jobs to work at. Fredrick Weyerhaeuser was the man who made the lumber industry. He was already wealthy before the lumber industry

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