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‘Canadian lumberjacks are striving to cut 200,000,000 miles from the Alaskan border. Train takes logs to Lumbermen work ten hours a day at muscle-building toil, are on piece work feet of spruce log this year, much of it airplane the inlet where they are floated into huge rafts. The and can earn up to $15 a day, sawing and chopping seven-foot thick, 300- Sitka spruce from Queen Charlotte Islands, just 50 lumbermen daily walk five miles through bush to work. year-old trees. Boom men pole the mighty logs to make up a Davis raft.

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v » . , . . . , . , . . . . t- . t . ., s; Men of- every race, ex-wrestlers, athletes, tough Joe McNeil, boss of the Jack Crosse is a French-Canadian, six feet tall, 225 Ed Bedlow,boom mammakes Alec Barr, an ace faller,

i’ men of the backwoods, fell the forest giants. “cold deck pile”, takes a pounds, an ex-wrestler, is forty years old, but puts up Davis rafts comprised strides to work, saw and ‘r Alex Pallipcher, a Ukrainian, likes hard work. chaw of stimulating tobacco. in a gruelling 10-hour day as a “fallci” - a good one. of forty-foot spruce logs. wedge hammer on shoulder.

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So adept at leaping from log to log in the river or Partner of giant Jack Qrosse is Ollie Brackoos, a 38-_vear-old Scandinavian, ' Norman Wagstziff poses beside a Fitkzi spruce to show walking the whirling tree trunks are these lumber ‘ 135-pound dynamo who hits blow for blownvithghis huge co-worker. They stick the diameter. lt is nine feet through. was nearly men, they can walk tightropes in best circus style. springboards in the tree bole and swing six-pound axes from this perch. 300 feet in height, and close to 400 years old.

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