Logging industry The logging industry had a big impact on Minnesota’s economy and there are many reasons why it did and here is just a few. The logging industry was very different at the start. First of all, Frederick Weyerhaeuser invested in much of the logging industry when it began in Minnesota. He invested in it in the 1860s. Also, at the start, many people were employed in the lumber industry because it made a good profit. And last the people working at the logging camps had lack of technology and relied on the natural resources like rivers, lakes, etc. Here is what the logging industry was like in the late 1800’s. There were lumberjacks. Their job was to climb up the trees, which could be very high up, and then cut it down with their