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And, against all the odds of the terrain, it’s the route the railways chose to carry the riches of lumber, mining — and the first tourists — across the continent.
5. "The Federal Reserve's latest beige-book regional economic survey declares the impact of Y2K concerns to be uneven across the country, although one lumber producer said Y2K worries had prompted customers to hold off buying wood until the new year.
Thus, the city dominated river traffic and prospered from a flourishing trade in fur, lumber, shipbuilding, tanneries, furniture, and textiles.
(The report was first discussed last week in the Washington Post , which today runs a story on it inside, as does the New York Times .) The top non-local story at the WP is the consummation of the long-awaited deal by which the federal government and the state of California have agreed to pay a lumber company $480 million to preserve Northern California's Headwaters Forest, which had been the largest stand of ancient redwoods in private hands.
--President Clinton, not discontent with a $480 million plan to protect giant redwoods from giant lumber companies.