Last week the ice went out of the Littlefork River in northern Minnesota with a great rush, playing hell with International Lumber Co. Most years it would make little difference to International whether or not the Littlefork rose 26 feet in a few days. It did this spring because for about ten miles the Littlefork was a river of logs. Piled on its ice all winter by 600 lumberjacks were 11,000,000 feet of white and norway pine destined for the company's lumber mills at International Falls, near where the Littlefork enters the Rainy River....
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