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- In 1852, Frederick Weyerhaeuser immigrated from Germany to the US. After he worked for a while, he and a friend bought a sawmill in Illinois. He figured out that he needed a reliable source and to do that he needed to buy forests, so he began to buy land.
- Time passes, we begin into the year 1860 where Frederick began buying land in Wisconsin and started the work of chopping down trees. After he got a decent amount of wood he and his partner purchased more than 200,000 acres of land in minnesota's timberland. From Minnesota he eventually progressed his business using sawmills and railroads.
- In Northern Minnesota the white pines was pushed into the river The logs were pushed into the river
- Machines the loggers used were saws, axes, logging chains, and hooks. They used hot water pumps to keep the sawmills from freezing in the winter.
- The lumber people paid lumber jacks in the forest and workers at sawmills in cities and towns. Trains brought logs to sawmills too. People at the sawmills turned the logs in to lumber.
- The lumber business made stools, chairs and tables and more things. People used these things in their houses and businesses
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