More than 30,000,000 pounds of wool and 12,000,000 pounds of hides also pass through the city every year, to say nothing of immense quantities of bananas and costly transactions in sugar and lumber.

The lumber king cannot get here.

It is a great mining country, but is still more noted for its wonderful lumber resources.

The early history of the great lumber business is full of interest, and this is one point alone in which the advance has been tremendous.

Another great company cut up 63,000,000 feet of lumber in one year, and shipped more than half of it out of the country.

When he was gone she bade me put it in the lumber-room, feeling probably that no present from a man who preferred Mr. Boz to Dr. Johnson could be less jarring than an iron fire-shovel.

It should be borne in mind that a knowledge of the futile attempts at electric telegraphs previous to his successful one has been brought out from the lumber garret of science by the research of eighteen years.

The beds came almost, if not quite, up to the level of the rafters, and screened off behind them perhaps a third of the entire space, which was used as a lumber closet or store.

They used also to obtain great quantities of fine lumber, and floated it through the same rivers every spring; but it was attended with great loss of life and property.

There I purchased a span of horses for one hundred and fifty dollars, and putting them before a new lumber wagon brought on from Rochester, we started for our wild and new home in good spirits, at which we arrived in good time.

" We passed out into the clear cold starlight, with the burning candle sheltered by a milk pan, and picked our way between the lumber to the unfinished room where John lay.

His people are big lumber guns here, and it will accommodate him and won't hurt me to wait a couple of hours and drop him off at their camp.

" Accordingly several articles of stray lumber were removed from the chamber, which the ladies arranged with care, and which when completed presented quite a respectable appearance.

Paper and hats were made in small quantities, leather was tanned, lumber was sawed, and rum was distilled from molasses; but it was on homemade manufactures that the people depended.

Lumber, too, was cut and sold in great quantities; and along the frontier there was a lively fur trade with the Indians.

Why, he jumped in, clothes and all, bold as a lion,plainly to save me from drowning, and me all the time a-spyin' at him from behind a lumber-pile!

So I sings out to him, and comes out from behind the lumber-stack, but, Lord bless ye!

A great family coach, drawn by two powerful country horses, lumbers along a narrow Irish road.

The coach lumbers along, it arrives at its destination, and Lady Audley is forgotten in the delight of tearing down fruit trees and killing a cat.

A cart lumbers along the road, the first cart of the morning.

The next day two Mormon youths from Jason started out with a load of lumber and hardware.

That night they unloaded the lumber.

But he had been given his card up in Portland; he had cooked in a lumber camp.

Scene: A great family coach, drawn by two powerful country horses, lumbers along a narrow Irish road.

The coach lumbers along, it arrives at its destination, and Lady Audley is forgotten in the delight of tearing down fruit trees and killing a cat.