Word: littlefork
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Last week the ice went out of the Littlefork River in northern Minnesota with a great rush, playing hell with International Lumber Co. Most years it would make little difference to International whether or not the Littlefork rose 26 feet in a few days. It did this spring because for about ten miles the Littlefork was a river of logs. Piled on its ice all winter by 600 lumberjacks were 11,000,000 feet of white and norway pine destined for the company's lumber mills at International Falls, near where the Littlefork enters the Rainy River. If flood...
...save its two-year accumulation of timber, International last week did all it could. Lumberjacks wrapped hundreds of feet of steel cable back and forth across the piles of the Nett River Bridge over the Littlefork. Against this dam a log jam 40 feet thick and three miles long formed quickly, booming and groaning with the pressure from back stream. Meanwhile in Duluth and International Falls the toughest bars filled up with other lumberjacks waiting for the flood to subside and their own special job to begin. These were rivermen, skilled riders and drivers of logs. About 200 of them...
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