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Show Debt Owed to the Spruce. While It was the pirn- that made possible the once prosperous West India trade and built up .Maine's shipping ship-ping In the days before tho civil war It never In all the years of Its preeminence pre-eminence accomplished half so much for the land of Its birth as the coarse-grained coarse-grained spruce. For, while tho pine built ships ami Individual tortuues mid made West India rum as cheap ns elder nil nlong the seaboard, the spruce has built towns In Iho mldtt of the wilderness, lll Rumford Falls and Mllllnocket, brought outside millions mil-lions of capital to Maine, and given popular literature an nmaping boom |