A Real Log Cabin - Saw Log

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Stock #: 39460
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
Publisher: C.P. Johnston Co.
Postmark: 1928
PM City: Seattle
PM State: WA
Stamp: 1C
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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Two natives of Washington A bear den and swelling in a Washington saw log. This log was cut four miles from Aberdeen from a spruce log, 100 feet from the butt which was 13 feet thick. It is 40 feet long, 9 feet in diameter at one end of eight feet at the other, cut to show at the St. Louis fair, and is now in Belle lsle Park at Detroit, Mich. there are chairs, settee and table cut in inside of log. When out to St. Louis it housed two black bears and a large cougar. It was made and sent to St. Louis by Thos. Morgan of Aberdeen.

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