eight townships and cut a
swath 500 feet wide.

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THE Winter of the Deep Snow everything was buried. Paul had to dig down
to find the tops of the tallest White Pines. He had the snow dug away
around them and lowered his sawyers down to the base of the trees. When
the tree was cut off he hauled it to the surface with a long parbuckle
chain to which Babe, mounted on snowshoes, was hitched. It was
impossible to get enough stove pipe to reach to the top of the snow, so
Paul had Big Ole make stovepipe by boring out logs with a long six-inch
auger.

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The year of the Two Winters they had winter all summer and then in the
fall it turned colder. One day Big Joe set the boiling coffeepot on the
stove and it froze so quick that the ice was hot. That was right after
Paul had built the Great Lakes and that winter they froze clear to the
bottom. They never would have thawed out if Paul had not chopped out the
ice and hauled it out on shore for the sun to melt. He finally got all
the ice thawed but he had to put in all new fish.

The next spring was the year the rain came up from China. It rained so
hard and so long that the grass was all washed out by the roots and Paul
had a great time feeding his cattle. Babe had to learn to eat pancakes
like Benny. That was the time Paul used the straw hats for an emergency
ration.

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When Paul's drive came down, folks in the settlements were astonished to
see all the river-pigs wearing huge straw hats. The reason for this was
soon apparent. When the fodder ran out every man was politely requested
to toss his hat into the ring. Hundreds of straw hats were used to make
a lunch for Babe.

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TALK about a job for Paul Bunyan! In 1913 the site of Westwood was
primeval forest, sixty mountainous miles from the nearest railroad.
Tractors, trucks and hundreds of horses freighted in materials before
the railroad was extended and when the future residents arrived the town
was complete to the last detail.

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Not a shack in the town. Modern houses, sanitary sewers, waterworks,
electricity, grade and high schools, hospital, church, clubs, up-to-date
department store, cafeteria, dairy, packing house, and cold storage,
theatre, soda fountains, garage and ball park--the 5,400 citizens of
Westwood enjoy comfortable homes, good schools, year 'r