Second Largest Logging Industry in the World...

[quinton]

at the turn of last century. Any guesses as to where it was located? The answer sure fooled me.

 

[Square_peg]

New Zealand?

I have no idea so I thought I'd just throw something out there.

Don't give it away until we see some more guesses.

 

[quinton]

New Zealand?

I have no idea so I thought I'd just throw something out there.

Don't give it away until we see some more guesses.

Nope. But good guess.

 

[Old Jug]

Canada

 

[Twindog]

India

 

[Squashfan]

South Africa?

 

[willseeyalater]

Panama

 

[ultrahesh]

Somewhere in Africa? Maybe Ethiopia?

 

[Danke42]

Brazil.

 

[rockman0]

China

 

[monstrum]

Usa...

 

[quinton]

Not a country.. This now VERY sleepy town in the USA claimed this fact. hint; a bank was built there in 1889 because of the logging industry boom.

 

[Squashfan]

Hey, you said world.

 

[BG_Farmer]

Somewhere in the southeast/midsouth? There was a lot of logging going on in the early 1900s.

 

[Danke42]

So not the last turn of the century; the one just before that.

How about Krug?

 

[quinton]

I'm puzzled too, so, I will post one link up for discussion. I found references to this claim on several sites, but can't find them now.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...62LIBu4PVDMsVaJDbJmFaw&bvm=bv.111396085,d.cWw

 

[quinton]

I'm puzzled too, so, I will post one link up for discussion. I found references to this claim on several sites, but can't find them now.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...62LIBu4PVDMsVaJDbJmFaw&bvm=bv.111396085,d.cWw

Ha! Another.
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/gorgery/railtunnel.html

 

[mqqn]

Waitsburg Washington?


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mqqn

 

[BG_Farmer]

I'm puzzled too, so, I will post one link up for discussion. I found references to this claim on several sites, but can't find them now.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...62LIBu4PVDMsVaJDbJmFaw&bvm=bv.111396085,d.cWw

I wonder how firm a claim that is. There were similarly large operations in the Smokies and Cumberlands.

Also I wonder which town was officially the biggest? California and the northwest eventually, of course, but I'm not real clear on the timeline.

 

[halfaxe]

So you mean regional rather than countries? I believe Saginaw Michigan was the largest lumber output in 1889, then a rapid decline as the timber ran out. The second, I don't know.