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British Columbians were last week more optimistic than the Dominion. The Yukon's $200,000,000 spate of gold has now become a mere $100,000 yearly trickle, but chilly Yukon's 207,076 sq. mi. are rich with uncut timber, unexploited copper, lead, coal, fish, game. These resources have been landlocked by the lack of railroads, which can presumably be promoted more easily in Vancouver than in Ottawa...
First since 1932, International's drive was to be the last for reasons connected less with conservation than with the temperament of the Chippewa Indians. Minnesota's only remaining stands of virgin timber are on its Indian reservations and Government preserves. Some years ago, International bought its timber from the Nett Lake Reservation for about $90,000. At the time it was the plan of the U. S. Indian Service to get the whole area cut clean in the hope that the Chippewas would take up farming. This plan has now been changed because the Chippewas prefer...
...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...
...going to run this year, decreed such things as how many gallons of milk per week the Cabinet plans that the average Russian cow shall give. On Jan. 1, 1937 there was nationwide Communist celebration of the State's announcements that every producing commissariat except that for Timber had "overfulfilled its production quota for 1936"-this quota having been set under the Second Five-Year Plan, which now has only eight more months to run. Statistics released last week with the Cabinet's new orders showed that the commissariats managed to "overfulfill" their total quotas in many cases...
...thing except just before I hit the water with the net. Then I tried to jump. I think I succeeded because I wasn't fouled in the net. I went down in the water, not very deep I think, because I came right up again. I saw some timber and grabbed on. Near me I saw feet. I pulled the body up. It was Fred Dummatzen. I looked around. There, tangled in the net was Noel Flowers. I yelled asking could he cut himself out. He just looked at me. God! What a horrified look! Then he went down...