Lumbering along the river began in the 1860s and was finished by the 1910s.

Lumbering was extensive in winter, with two sawmills operating.

Lumbering was a considerable source of income for many inhabitants.

Lumbering, though, was limited by access to the available waterways.

Lumbering was the predominant industry in the St. Croix River Valley in the second half of the 19th century, and for many years logs were sent down the St. Croix, collected at the St. Croix Boom Site two miles upstream of Stillwater, and processed in Stillwater's many sawmills.

Lumbering was the primary industry in McHenry Township during the mid-to-late 19th century.

Lumbering was the dominant industry in Penn Township during the mid-to-late 19th century.

Lumbering was the only industry of this area, with the exception of a small mining operation run by William Pentecost, which supplied only sufficient coal to neighboring farmers for winter fuel.

Originally called Little Falls in the 1870s, the community was established by the Union Lumbering Company along the Chippewa River and came to be known as Holcombe years later.

Lumbering was important to the early town, which had more than thirty sawmills.

Lumbering was the main industry for the remainder of the 19th century.

Barton City was the sity of the main branch of the Potts Lumbering Company and the Loud Lumbering Company.

Lumbering was likely carried on near Seguin Falls during the pre railway era with the construction of dams to regulate water levels, timber was driven down the Seguin River more than 35 years before the building of the Ottawa, Arnprior & Parry Sound Railway.

Referencing W. E. Lamm's small booklet, " Lumbering In Klamath ," there was a sawmill built at Sprague River in 1930 called Crater Lake Lumber & Box Company.

Lumbering, once an important industry, has been much restricted since the establishment of the State Park in 1892.

Lumbering became the dominant industry.

Lumbering and the logging industry has played a vital role in Smethport ’ s economy for Smethport ’ s entire history.

Bronze spandrels between the third and fourth-floor windows depicted scenes from American industry: Shipping, Farming, Manufacturing, Mining and Lumbering.

* Lumbering on White Lake / Staples & Covell Mill

Lumbering had a profound impact on the early development of Houghton Lake.

* " Early Lumbering on the Chippewa ", Vinette, Bruno and William W. Bartlett, Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1926, Wisconsin Historical Society.

Lumbering and tourism support Ignace's economy, today, and one attraction is the 3-storey log White Otter Castle, located on White Otter Lake, and built by James Alexander McOuat between 1903 and 1914.

* Smith, David C. A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1861 – 1960 ( University of Maine Press, 1972 )

Lumbering is also important to the local economy.

Lumbering and tanning were important early industries.

Lumbering removed the tree trunks, but left many flammable limbs, branches, and stumps behind.

Lumbering and cattle raising were the chief industries until James E. Berry helped establish a drainage system to make rice a major crop.

Lumbering trailed off at the turn of the 20th century, but the town has continued to take advantage of its position along those bodies of water with a major paper mill ( Kimberly Clark ), and other plants such as: Marinette Marine, a shipyard owned by the Italian firm, Fincantieri ; Ansul / Tyco, a manufacturer of fire protection systems ; ThyssenKrupp Waupaca Foundry and Karl Schmidt Unisia, Inc., cast and machined automotive parts ; and Silvan Industries, a manufacturer of pressure vessels and part of the Samuel Pressure Vessel Group.

Lumbering operations in Thunder Bay District were often directed by men resident in the city.

He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.

There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.

He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.

This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.

He was big, and filthy, and his toes stuck out of the flapping tops of his shoes.

He was big.

`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

He told me that he had a big newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a big eye of the big newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the big newt.

He was then noting that the big eye on the little newt hung back until the little eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as the other.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.