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...interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates to the nineteenth century, when lumber was worth little, yet was essential for construction of mine shafts. Today the timber above ground is often more valuable that the minerals beneath, so a mining company may sell lumber at great prices and never dig a shaft...
...Night, lifting & turning her in Bed about every 5 minits." As in an Old Testament tale, the huge family assembles at the deathbed to hear the dying injunction, while son Joseph rides to the mountain for a "Bucket of Snow" to cool his mother's lips. Meanwhile, "the Lumber previously dressed up" stands ready for the coffin-for this is a pioneer story in which prayer and practicality are never far apart...
...GRADED LUMBER will help do-it-yourself carpenters select the grades they need. Western lumber mills (which produce about one-third of all U.S. soft wood) plan to abandon the old, complicated system of grading by numbers, will use names instead: construction, standard, utility or economy...
...favorite orator, at the peak of his decibels more popular even than silver-tongued William Jennings Bryan. Billy put up tabernacles wherever he went-basilicas of raw boards on the reassuring lines of a barn. The tabernacle had several advantages over the tent-it was safer, the used lumber could be sold, and the noise of hammering in the little towns advertised Sunday's approach for a week in advance. Carloads of sawdust provided an acoustical baffle and a path for sinners to walk forward. On a stage high above the audience, flanked by brass instruments and brass-throated...
...Roman Catholic) called him the "tank-town Torquemada." Princeton's Dean Andrew West, "in the name of ... the purity and sanctity of our Christian faith," denied Billy permission to speak on the campus. He died in 1935, most forgotten of men. Booze was legal again, the tabernacle lumber was being used for CCC camps, and other trombones were heard in the land...