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in these woods are saved for spars, and so ex- 

 cellent is their quaUty that they are in demand 

 in almost every shipyard of the world. Thus 

 these trees, felled and stripped of their leaves 

 and branches, are raised again, transplanted 

 and set firmly erect, given roots of iron and a 

 new foliage of flapping canvas, and sent to 

 sea. On they speed in glad, free motion, cheer- 

 ily waving over the blue, heaving water, re- 

 sponsive to the same winds that rocked them 

 when they stood at home in the woods. After 

 standing in one place all their lives they now, 

 like sight-seeing tourists, go round the world, 

 meeting many a relative from the old home 

 forest, some like themselves, wandering free, 

 clad in broad canvas foliage, others planted 

 head downward in mud, holding wharf plat- 

 forms aloft to receive the wares of all nations. 

 The mills of Puget Soimd and those of the 

 redwood region of California are said to be the 

 largest and most effective Imnber-makers in 

 the world. Tacoma alone claims to have eleven 

 sawmills, and Seattle about as many; while 

 at many other points on the Sound, where the 

 conditions are particularly favorable, there 

 are immense Imnbering establishments, as at 

 Ports Blakely, Madison, Discovery, Gamble, 

 Ludlow, etc., with a capacity all together of 

 over three million feet a day. Nevertheless, 



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