Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-11-25
A Short Account Of Some Of the Most
Important Events in Its Life, and i
ing nusinessM Men. Both Pact
and Reesent. by ~

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Assuredly fhe American Autumn,
with it's cheerful Indian Summer, pre-
sents a ravishing spectacle, enhanced
from step to step by the charming va
riety of secular trees and their gor-
geous wealth of fading foliage. There
is an oak clad in warm scarlet; an
other in yellow. Then chestnut, a
shadowless mass of gold. Some ash
trees foliage is purple, others notified.
The aspen's silvery branches are fill
greed with gold; while the long, pima
ted leaves of the sumach pierce
through, vivid as the plumage of the
scarlet famingo. The hickory, elm,
beech, birch, tAmarack, cedar and
spruce, etc, mina le together their pc
culiar but indescs ibable shades.
But none contil butes, singly, so
much to the BEAUTY of the landscape as
the maple, uniting Us it does, more
brilliancy and variet " than any of it's
companions. There one stands out
alone, miniature pyfamid of most
striking brightness; hqe another, a
sugar maple, is a sheet nf FURNISHED
gold; a third is dark crimson, another
vermilion. This one, narti-colored,
blending pink and yellowyS green and
red; while others still have not yet
changed their summer garment of
green. It is not rare to behpad in a
single maple all these colors Shlended
in capricious confusion. Laet, not
least, but prominent, stands ereet in
the midst of such rich, sylvan gSSAxy,
the massive, aged, valuable, high Ew-
ering white pine and its poorer, Nat
wealthy relative, the Norway, gracin&
and protecting the surrounding, wtM
their bushy brow, their vigoroHs'
branches and perennial verdure. The
pines, kings of the forest-the coveted
prize of the rivaHng logging colHpan-
les which, year after year, despite
their glorious, royal grande4E, in
thousands and thousands, heavily fall,
sweeping all before them, and !5Nith a
dreadful crash kiss earth's xsnow Or
dust, conquered by the well-ahned, UNI
sparing axe and devouring, s.grinding
saw of armies of woodmen, around
camps innumerable. Thuslthe great
often collapse and perish {Sby the SIM
pIest instruments of DIVING Justice, Of
ten entailing the ruin of - the small;
thus the grim executioner, Death,
blindly mows down, without pity, the
mighty and the feeble, the ignorant
and the learned, the old and the young,
the poor and the wealthy. Thus the
colossal statue of King Nebuchadnez-
Ear himself was struck, fell and was
broken to pieces, to the confusion of
mortal pride and impious defiance.
All is activity in the camps, from
day-break until late at night; and, Of
ten, batallions are busily engaged,
fastening the slaughter, during the
winters long, moonlight hours. Men
teams and teamsters are allowed but
little rest: for the masters and foremen
have sworn the destruction of the pine.
So many thousands must be scaled ev-
cry evening; so many millions must be
landed into creeks, rivers or on frozen
lakes, to secure successful season.
The winter months being over, thaw
sets in, and crews on the drive, cover
the lakes and rivers and, amid dam
gerous exertions, direct the logs south
and westward, while the freights on
the railroads are mostly laden with
the mangled pine victims, to supply
food for the mills, the factories, the
contractors, builders and architects of
the New and the Old World.
It seems next to a sin to lay profane
and murderous hands on such superb
beauties as our Northern forests, on
such ancient majesties as are our pine
trees, of which, according to the latest
calculation there are still, in the fall
of the present year, 1897, 100000 900
feet of white pine left in Wisconsin, of
which, 400, 100000 is in our own Villas
county.
The work in the camps and the lum
bering industry in our state are, there
fore, far from being at an end. 1t will