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Italians have worked in the Lumbering industry throughout the forested hills of the Mother Lode since the Gold Rush. They were heavily
involved in logging and harvested timber off their ranches which delivered to the mines by horse team. Many of the Italian immigrants were woodcutters and the landscape was covered
by the cabins of Italians woodcutters who split wood to make the charcoal used in the mining forges.
The Italian immigrants brought their skill in working with stone
from Liguria, a rugged and mountainous land with an estimated 25,000 miles of terraced hillsides.
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