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Show j At. lino No Longer the l'lne Tree State. ' Ono of tho pioneer lumbermen on the ! rcnobscot was Mr. John Triekey, still j living in liangor, at the age of 85 years. lie went there ou foot with a pack on his back and only $1.50 in his pocket in is-.'!). Today ho in one of Bangor's wealthy citizens. "Times have changed," in they fay, since Mr. Triekey began his ' operations. Mai no was really tho "Pino Tree State" then. In eight years Mr. Triekey cut o3, 000,000 feet of pine on land that now constitutes tho towns of C'armc-l, Keudu-keag and Levant, where j hardly a pino is to bo seen. At that j time there were no roads, and all the ; provisions wero taken tip tho river in ' li;its, BiHfial crews being employed for : that purpose. Lewinton Journal. |