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THE LOG THAT WAS SENT TO THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION TO RKPRKSEXT WASHINGTON'S LUMBER INDUSTRY— Diameter at stump, 16 feet.

Copyright. 190X, by Darius Kinsey, Sedro-Woolley, Wash.

gling for the privilege of cutting it. Their axes are now heard in the forests of Washington and Oregon.

The large holdings by speculators and lumbermen have not all been se- cured through fraudulent entries, how- ever. Buyers have used every means possible to acquire valuable land for little money, but in this they have been aided as much by one entryman's ignorance of timber values as by another's criminality.

In the development of its lumber industry, Washington was several years ahead of Oregon, and most of its valuable timber land was taken before