To say that there was a wanton destruction of the timber is untrue. There was a destruction of timber for beneficial use. From the headwaters of the Allegheny River. in the State of New York. as early as 1820. and even earlier than that. from 1815 to 1820. there departed every spring a large number of immigrants for the great West. I presume for many years a majority of the men who went from the East into the State of Ohio went down the Allegheny River on rafts. The lumbermen cut lumber. put it in the river. built rafts. and then the settlers went down on those rafts.
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