Lumber Industry In The Late 1800s

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The lumber industry was dangerous because when you climbed up a tree you wouldn't have a harness and if you fell you would probably die. The industry started from Weyerhaeuser and his friend bought a sawmill. Second, he started lumbering in the 1830s. Then he bought 200,000 acres of land for lumber in the central part of MN. In the late 1800s the lumber industry had a lot of land for lumbering. They had so much land that they thought that it could be lumbered for 100 years. Earlier than what they expected the land only lasted for 80 years of lumber. Even though they had a lot of land to lumber off of they didn't start making major investments. The industry today is way safer and is more efficient. First they started