The genuine prospectors always have been counted in this class; but all miners who are fully located, all lumbermen and railway-builders certainly are not in the prospector's class.
Many foreign countries have long practiced forestry and lumbering, yet their lumbermen cannot compete with the Americans when it comes to a matter of ingenuity in the woods.
As lumbermen learn more about the value of modern forestry they gradually are coming to practice its principles.
American lumbermen are slowly coming to devise and follow a combination method which includes all the good points of foreign forestry revised to apply to our conditions.
The forestry scientists andlumbermen have now improved the use of dry kilns and artificial systems of curing green lumber.
Many of our lumbermen now appreciate the need of preserving and protecting our forests for future generations.
Lumbermen who own forests from which they desire to harvest a timber crop should first of all survey the woods, or have some experienced forester do this work, to decide on what trees should be cut and the best methods of logging to follow.
Then they try to educate and convert the lumbermen and manufacturers away from such practices.
Lumbermen who hold contracts to cut timber in the National Forest are required to pile and burn all the slashings.
The trouble in this country has been that the lumbermen have harvested the crop of the forests in the shortest possible time instead of spreading out the work over a long period.
Thoughtless lumbermen have pillaged millions of acres of our most productive forests.
The lumbermen can also aid the future development of the forests by using care in skidding and hauling the logs to the yard or mill.
The early lumbermen often made mistakes in estimating the timber yields of the forests.
Our lumbermen lead the world in skill and ingenuity.
As a class, our lumbermen are no more selfish or greedy than men in many other branches of business.
At the first opportunity Shock set forth his plans for the physical and moral redemption of the lumbermen and miners of the Pass.
The result of their visit to the Pass was that within a few weeks a rough log building was erected, floored, roofed in, chinked with moss, and lined with cotton, lumbermen and miners willingly assisting in the work of building.
He had not been able to visit them as much as he would have liked, but he had obtained information from many of the miners and lumbermen as to their whereabouts, and as to the conditions under which they lived and wrought.
It was from The Don that the Superintendent learned of all Shock's work in the past, and of all that had been done to counteract the terrible evils that were the ruin of the lumbermen and miners.
Why, when the miners and lumbermen happen to get off the same night the blood flows, and there is abundant practice for any surgeon for a week or so.
Fox has found trees cut down; lumbermen perhaps have been in this direction.
But Joe and his young friends, who were novices like himself, discovered very soon that these old lumbermen were not without consideration.
Joe stood by as one of the biggest of the trees tumbled, and watched the lumbermen shredding the branches from the fallen timber.
There are several groves of them; many of the trees were gnarled, for which reason the lumbermen had rejected them; some of them were four and five feet in diameter and crooked into fantastic shapes.
But they never come near a camp; they are so shy that you never can get sight of one, though the lumbermen tell stories of having fights with them.
The lumbermen seemed satisfied and turned again to their wedges.
There was a vision of the lumbermen running clear.
Loud voices began to point it out, and the lumbermen stared stupidly upward.
Aitkin at that time was not much more than a railroad station for the transfer of the lumbermen and merchandise to the steamboat.
There old man Butler kept a ranch for the especial accommodation of lumbermen and land hunters, who included nearly everyone who came that way.
The trespass had been committed by a man prominent in the community and well-known among the lumbermen of the Wisconsin River.
On the train, yesterday several old lumbermen were telling about hard roads and steep hills, engineering skill and so forth.
When he came down in the spring, he passed through a car of lumbermen and one of them put a warm, wet quid of tobacco in his plug hat for a joke.
There were a hundred of these lumbermen when the preacher began, and when the train got into Eau Claire there were only three of them well enough to go around to the office and draw their pay.
The two lumbermen guided the ladies hurriedly in the direction of the office, when suddenly the shrill voice of Charlie Manton broke upon their ears.
Bill took keen delight in showing the two lumbermen about the camp.
The two lumbermen took their departure the following morning amid the hearty farewells of the snow-bound camp.
It was not exactly the season of the year for lumbermen to enter the woods, unless they were measurers, who were engaged in preparing in advance work for the winter; so that was the character which Nick Carter adopted.
But the lumbermen still haul supplies over it to their camps, and I propose that we follow their example.
Them's the sort o' dangers that the fust settlers an' lumbermen in these woods had to face.
It extended for about a quarter of a mile over a swamp, and spoke volumes for the energy and ingenuity of the hardy lumbermen who constructed it.
For this: the Penobscot at this point approaches within two and a half miles of Moosehead Lake, and over this portage supplies are taken conveniently for the lumbermen of an extensive lumbering country above, along the river.
We dined with lumbermen and moose-hunters, scufflingly.
This reference is not to the lumbermen and the pulp stuff choppers.
Gunners will steal from the traps, they believe, andlumbermen scare away game.
Some people have an idea that spruce gum is gathered in the forest by the lumbermen at odd jobs.
The two stalwart lumbermen lifted the boat as though she were but a feather, and carried her, jumping from log to log, the whole length of the raft.
Near this spot, which is occasionally visited by lumbermen and piny-woods settlers, I drew my canoe on to a sandy beach one rod in length.
The lumbermen from "civilization" were educating them.
On the discolored mattress in the lower bunk left there by the lumbermen who once occupied it, was stretched the figure of a man, fast asleep.
No lumbermen operating there for three years, and you see that, and are lookin' for something, and don't go and find out!
When he had left the group of the lumbermen he noticed that some of them bent lowering looks upon him.
The lumbermen whom Wade headed stood in solid phalanx at the foot of the room.
It was bid off by the lumbermen themselves, who had formed a combination to prevent its falling into the hands of other purchasers.
Allowing this to be so, it will not be difficult to comprehend the condition and character of the lumbermen of Minnesota and the northwest.
Lumbermen in great numbers winter in the pine regions of Minnesota with their teams, and I have never heard of their finding the snow too deep to prosecute their labors.
A party of lumbermen wielding axes causes one to turn aside and call on them.
He knew, as all do, that a few thousandlumbermen entered each autumn, and, much to his regret, made steady inroads toward its despoilment.
A few of these lumbermen might give information from a desire to aid the law, or to obtain a reward, did they not know that to do so would expose them to the inevitable fate of all betrayers.
In autumn swarms of lumbermen halted there, content to sleep on the floor if need be.
It is a community of interest, a sort of freemasonry that exists between these lumbermenand all who thrive upon their labors and hardships.
Her life at Tim's Place, and contact with lumbermen or worse, has been no benefit.
It is an epic of the life of the lumbermen of the great forest of the Northwest, permeated by out of door freshness, and the glory of the struggle with nature.
The lumbermen from Saccarappa are getting their logs across the Great Pond.
Mr. Dean was a carpenter, and kept a grocery store as well, so he could pity the lumbermen from the shelter of comparative affluence.
The strong hand which, in the absence of a strong government, lumbermen were driven to use in order to protect themselves from piracy by their neighbors, or else to perpetrate such, brought about many bloody conflicts.
Extensive grants and sales were made to lumbermen and speculators.
The only possible check that could at first be applied was to force the lumbermen to make contracts, limit the diameter to which the exploitation was to be allowed, and mark the trees to be felled.
Various attempts at some kind of regulation of the exploitation by lumbermen were also made by the general government, after various examinations and reports, and, in 1847, even a small and ineffective forest department was organized.
The sawmill privileges, under which English lumbermen held large areas for long terms and devastated them without regard to the impractical regulations, were, however, not ended until 1860.
With the proceeds of their adventure the lumbermen added many comforts and luxuries to their camp at the Canoa on the Santa Cruz, and travelers reveled in crystal and whisky.
The lumbermen joined the Mexicans, and as they could easily discern the course of the Apaches by the clouds of dust, succeeded in forming an ambuscade and fired on the Apaches when they reached the river.
They went on to the Canoa, where the lumbermen were in camp, and made the same proposition, which they accepted, as they were new in the country and needed horses and mules.
The Mexicans made a fair division, and the mule trade was lively with the lumbermen and the merchants in Tucson.
I'm going to get Jim Nelson and some of the lumbermen around here and have a look around.
Close by, lumbermen had been hauling timber from the forest into the highway and had made a distinct trail across the road ditch.
When Willis Murch passed along the old road in October that fall, the mysterious "saloon" was still standing there; andlumbermen spoke of seeing it there during the winter.
Indeed, the old Squire had once employed him to settle a dispute for some superstitious lumbermen at one of his logging camps.
One of the lumbermen threw brush on the fire, making it blaze brightly.
Perhaps these lumbermen were more dangerous than I had supposed, and Dick did not wish them to believe I had left Penetier.
Because the lumbermenare wiping out all the timber and never thinking of the future.
Buell's lumbermen would have employment in the mill and as rangers in the forest.
The lumbermen set about getting breakfast, and Stockton helped me to what little I could eat and drink.
Formerly the lumbermen bought so much land and cut over it--skinned it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lumbermen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
