Lumber
What is the natural resource for lumber?
trees (White pine)
What was the natural resource for flour?
wheat
What were railroads/trains used for?
to transport resources
What is a natural resource?
A resource from nature that can be used to make a product
Why was water important to both lumber and flour industries?
they both used it to transport resources and power the mills
What were rivers used for in the lumber industry?
transportation of logs to sawmills
What is a bushel?
An agricultural measurement of wheat (1.25)
What do hot water pumps do?
kept mills running in winter
What is a lumberjack?
someone who cuts down trees in the winter and in spring they transported them to sawmills
What are the advantages of railroads over rivers for lumber transportation?
1. they could work away from the river
2. they could work all year
Who was the main industrialist for lumber in Minnesota?
Fredrick Weyerhaeuser
Who was the main industrialist for flour in Minnesota?
Charles Pillsbury
What does the middling's purifier do?
Takes out the brown flecks in flour
What is an industry?
A branch of business that specializes in a product or service.
How did human capital help immigrants make more money?
they could become machinists and make more money
When did the lumber production decline and why?
In 1910, because they never replanted/planted more trees
Minnesota was ranked __ in the _____ for flour production.
#1, world
What do the steel rollers do?
Makes faster and finer flour (FFF)
What is an industrialist?
A person who manages an industry
What are the highest paying jobs at a flour mill?
Those who operated the machines at the mills
A dangerous job that needed a lot of skill
What is the location of lumber's natural resource?
Northern Minnesota
What is the location of flour's natural resource?
southern and southwestern prairies
What is the name of the saw that replaced crosscut saws in the lumber industry?
steam-powered saws
What is industrialization?
the process of developing large-scale mechanical factories.
Fredrick Weyerhaeuser purchased more than 200,000 acres of land in timberland Minnesota. He went on to buy ______ more acres in Minnesota from _____ _ ____.
900,000, James J. Hill