This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...the hills. The toot of the locomotive was answered by the scream of another whistle somewhere ahead, as if there were a bustling activity beyond the curtaining trees. The foreman of the " outfit" was waiting to go to the end of the " spur," and he swung himself aboard from a handy log alongside the track. He ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...the hills. The toot of the locomotive was answered by the scream of another whistle somewhere ahead, as if there were a bustling activity beyond the curtaining trees. The foreman of the " outfit" was waiting to go to the end of the " spur," and he swung himself aboard from a handy log alongside the track. He was a quiet young man with a frank gray eye, a square jaw and a fine pair of shoulders. He explained in reply to many questions: " I've got a gang of a hundred Irish, Swedes and Americans, and most of them get drunk whenever they get a chance. No, they aren't always easy to handle, but if you let little things worry you, you'll go crazy, so what's the use? I was raised in Michigan logging camps, and this getting timber out by steam power is different. I had to learn the business all over again when I came out to the coast. We run these spurs off the main line about every fourteen hundred feet, two of them off each side, parallel, you understand. Then we log between the two spurs, giving us a seven hundred foot haul either way to the flat cars. When we're through, we pull up our tracks and push ahead and then run the spurs off to the left and right in the same fashion. If you've been used to seeing logging with ox teams and sleds, you'll have a chance to see some real live action when you've watched the donkey-engine at work." His forecast was most conservative. Logging by steam, as it is done in the Cascades, is worth going many miles to see as a hair-raising spectacle. When the train toiled into a clearing, the donkey-engine stood near the track and the skidway which led to the loading platform. It was a commonplace looking " donkey," although bigger than most of its breed which puff and strain on docks and at the foot of derricks. The...
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Very Good+ Book Inked name FEP. Printed in Deposit, NY. Dulled spine lettering. Photosemphasize industrial devolopment of America Superb b/w photos of workers. very good+, no dj, pict. green cloth. Tight 327 pgs.
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Very Good. Book Printed in Deposit, New York. A few upper page edges are waterstained. Fabulous photos of all kinds of industry b/w photos. very good, no dj, pictorial gray-green cloth 327 pgs.
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Very Good+ No Dustjacket. Book New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1907. First Edition. Very Good+/no dust jacket. First Edition decorated American trade binding. Clean green cloth boards with striking black and white illustration of a town in the foothills of the mountains with a train passing through, stamped gold lettering on cover and spine. Tiny spots of wear to several corners. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers-no names, writing or marks. Illustrated throughout with full page black and white photographs. 327 pages + one page of publisher's advertising at rear of book.
