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••IN THE BEGINNING" 



CHICAGO'S enormous trade in 

 lumber had an obscure and 

 humble beRinning. As is 

 usual in such cases, those who 

 oriRinated the first business had no 

 prophetic filimpse of what was to 

 crow out of it, even within the life- 

 time of persons then livinn. It was 

 a small foundation on which to erect 

 a superstructure so vast. 



The strip of lake front and the 

 swamps and prairies back '>f it on 

 which the city now stanas with its 

 two and a half million people, 

 formed a situation about as un- 

 invitinn to the lumberman as could 

 be found, when the first buildinRS 

 were erected in the future Chicago. 



It was not a timbered region in 

 the sense that Michigan and Wis- 

 consin were. There were trees but 

 not much merchantable timber. The 

 high ground between the swamps 

 supported white, yellow, burr, and 

 swamp oaks of fair size; black, red, 

 and white ash; box elder and a little 

 hickory; and now and then .i sugar 

 maple. Along the margins of some 

 of the swamps first class cotton- 

 woods grew. It is said, on some- 

 what questionable authority, that a 

 few fine yellow poplars grew on the 

 site of Chicago. 



The southern limits of both the 

 white and the jack pine in the 

 region coincided almost exactly 

 with the southern limits of the 

 present city: and these trees con- 

 tributed a little to the original 

 timber which occupied the site of 

 the city. 



When timber of all kinds and 

 qualities was considered, there was 

 not much of it. The "north shore," 

 from Chicago to Winnetka, doubt- 

 less affords at the present time a 

 pretty correct idea of the natural 

 forests a century ago. 



Of course, no large mill was 

 erected to cut such timber. Not 

 until some years after the first Fort 

 Dearborn had been burnt by the 

 Indians, and the second erected in 

 its stead, was mention made in the 

 old records of any attempt to manu- 

 facture lumber. Before that time 

 the whipsaw and the broad ax had 

 done the manufacturing. The 

 whipsaw was worked by hand, one 

 man on the log above, the other in 

 the pit beneath. Square timbers 

 were produced with the broad ax. 

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