CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings March 31, 2014
On cspan. Bend is a timber town. You wouldnt know it to look at it today. The timber qualities are almost completely removed, but, yes, bend was a timber town to begin with. At the height of the timber industry, so if you were to drop into bend in, say, 1928, you would have smell the mills, you would have smelled sawdust. If you went through certain parts of town, youd get sawdust on your clothes. You would here periodic mill whistles from the two gigantic super mills that were on the banks of the river. It would have permeated everything. It would have been ten minutes off from the Downtown C...
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