Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Seniors will start this morning for Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and Carabasset, Maine. The excursion will be conducted by Professor A. Cary, of the Division of Forestry, and will remain in Sturbridge for about a week, surveying and making a field map of about 500 acres of forest land for a lumber firm. The men will then go to Carabasset, where they will remain until about June 15, living in tents and making a field map of 5000 acres of timber land for the present owners. This trip is open to all Seniors in the Division of Forestry...
...photographs taken by Professor Cary in his studies in German and American forests. In 1896 he studied the methods of raising, reproducing and handling the timber lands in the German forests, for about four months, and later was engaged in the same work in Maine in the employ of lumber firms...
...Underwood delivered a lecture last night in the Union on "A Strange Story of the North Woods: A Study of Animal Life in the Wilderness." The lecture was illustrated by stereopticon views showing life in the Maine lumber camps, and snapshots of animal life in the North. During the lecture Mr. Underwood gave excellent imitations of the calls of the loon and the ruffed grouse. He told a story about a bear-cub which was found by the lumbermen, and brought up in one of the camps. When the bear grew larger Mr. Underwood bought it and took...
...course of his lecture Mr. Underwood will describe the life of the Maine lumbermen in their winter camps and of the river drivers in the spring, and will tell the story of a bear cub, caught near one of the lumber camps...
Moore, L. A., lumber business...