Man will stop at nothing where guaranteed riches are the prize. Some of the most obvious examples of this in our country are the skeletons left behind by the boom and bust of both the mining and logging industries. Machines of similar size and wonder can be found in the most remote parts of New England and other northern tier states where the logging industry extracted many millions of board feet of logs from the forests until there were no more forests worth the effort. They pulled stakes and left and left the machines behind, being far too expensive to bother with bringing back.
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