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Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 26, 2004 at 14:40:54 from (64.228.11.118):
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Fifty Year posted by Paul in Mich on February 26, 2004 at 06:59:31:
Paul: Actually one of the items we had going for us on the east coast was softwood lumber. Most of our farms were from 1/2 to 2/3 forested. New England was to some degree, trying to spend it's way out of the depression, and while it didn't pay big money for lumber in those days, it did keep money moving. Lumbering was very fuel efficient in those days, as they hauled logs to the river bank with, you guessed HAY BURNERS. That in turn kept a lot of farming operations going suppling hay to the lumbering operations. My grandfather, and nephew who had earlier felt the call of go west young man, thus was starving in the dust bowl. They started a business of rounding up wild horses, shipping them east by rail for use in the lumber business. They used to break those horses on my home farm. It was pretty well over by the time I remember. I do remember some tales of quite hairy and unsafe practices endured by my dad and his friends. I assure you his boys led a much safer life on Farmalls. The logs were moved down river in the spring by river drives. Sawed into lumber on the coast and shipped by water to places like Boston, New York and Philadelphia. This entire operation created a lot of work in the 30s, for some people. It was definately not for the faint of heart. This is precisely why Newfoundlanders and Maritimers know how to prosper in hard times. They know how to run a bare bones operation. My dad was 18 when the hammer came down in 1929. He went through the 30s never unemployed. He was able to buy a new flat head V8 Ford coup in 1935 and paid cash for it. He always said my brothers and I never knew the true thrill of the road buying our first cars in the 50s. Sound familiar.
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