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In a single March week, the Camano Island mill town of Utsalady snapped back from bankruptcy: a $30,000 mill sale, workmen arriving by steamer, plans for a new wharf — and a showman who decided to stay.
“If half what we hear is true in reference to future business operations at that point, the purchasers will have a bonanza in local trade alone, to say nothing of what lumber is exported abroad.”
A logger's clumsy slip sends a mill company's entire payroll into the deep.
“The sacks being quite weighty, Mr. John Longfellow, a muscular logger, was asked to carry them ashore, which he attempted to do, but when about midway of the gangplank he slipped.”
A steamer mate is thrown overboard at Utsalady and lost. When reporters ask around the waterfront, everyone knew him—but no one could recall his name.
“Oh, yes, I know the man, but no one of them could tell his name.”
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