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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



giant. It stirred restlessly as from a dreani and the sleep- 

 dazed, war-torn South slowly raised its weary head to 

 look about. It was hard to realize the reality of this 

 thing at first and only half convinced the southern pine 

 poked tenta- 



right when they had been shipping only a few boatloads 

 of lumber to the prosperous Northern States and still 

 fewer to the countries across the sea, but it was all too 

 slow to satisfy this lusty yoiith. The solid yellow stream 



which he pro- 



tively, cau- 

 tiously, almost 

 a p o logetically 

 out into the 

 prairies in an- 

 swer to that 

 despairing call. 



It sold! 



The South 

 was awake at 

 last. After 35 

 vears of de- 

 spondent sleep 

 she was awake. 

 Not yet square- 

 ly on her feet, 

 but thoroughly 

 alive and 

 awake to the 

 wonderful pos- 

 sibilities. N o 

 longer could 

 white pine rule 

 the world. He 

 had spent his 

 wealth with 

 t h e reckless 

 e X t ravagance 

 of a profligate 

 and already 

 that still proud 

 gray head was 

 bowing bank- 

 rupt beneath 

 the tottering 

 crown. 



By 1900 this 

 newborn 

 South, c o n fi- 

 dent in her re- 

 awakened 

 youth, set the 

 crown trium- 

 phantly upon 

 her luxuriant 

 yellow hair 

 and shook her 

 smiling head 

 defiantly at all 

 the world. The 

 king was dead, 

 long live the king. The nigger and the mule, a com- 

 bination which had served the sleepy plantations of the 

 old time South for countless generations, had been all 



DOUGLAS FIR IN WASHINGTON THE MINIONS OF THE "GIANT" THE 

 GIANT WHICH IS REACHING FORTH TO SNATCH PROM IHE SOUTH HER 

 POSITION OF SUPREMACY IN PRODUCTION, AND FOR THE FIRST TIME DUR- 

 ING HER REIGN, THE SOUTH FEELS A TREMOR OF FEAR LEST SHE LOSE 

 THAT CROWN WHICH SHE HAS SO JEALOUSLY AND DEFIANTLY WORN. 



posed to pump 

 to every quar- 

 ter of the civil- 

 ized world 

 must have a 

 far more ener- 

 getic source 

 than that. 



The flat and 

 rockless coun- 

 try prompted 

 him to build 

 many r a i 1- 

 roads, and the 

 presence of the 

 railroads sug- 

 gested the use 

 of heavy ma- 

 chinery, such 

 machinery a s 

 lumbermen had 

 never before 

 dreamed o f . 

 Great engines 

 set on flat cars 

 and equipped 

 with many 

 drums and 

 thousands o f 

 feet of cable 

 which yanked 

 whole trees 

 through sand 

 and swamp to 

 the waiting 

 "empties" o n 

 the railroad 

 track, or lifted 

 them cashbas- 

 ket - wise and 

 laid them down 

 beside the cars. 

 Great sluggish 

 rafts hesitated 

 with the tide 

 on every 

 stream, and 

 sawmills, new- 

 1 y built, 

 shrieked 

 bloody murder 

 in each little town. The South had awakened with a 

 vengeance and a third of the nation's "cut" was hers, 

 but she was not without competitors. The red pine and 



