American Lumbermen: The Personal History and Public and Business Achievements of One Hundred Eminent Lumbermen of the United States (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from American Lumbermen: The Personal History and Public and Business Achievements of One Hundred Eminent Lumbermen of the United States<br><br>An old Persian philosopher gave much praise to the man who made two blades of grass grow where only one had grown before. In the busy turmoil of the twentieth cen tury we have little time to commemorate the ways by which the brainy businessman adds to the sum of commercial activity.<br><br>However the man who brings a beautiful and comparatively new wood into daily commercial use or rediscovers its utility surely adds something to the substance of living.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.