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AMERICAN FORKSTRY 



vates, first-class, 558 privates, second class, 12 buglers. 

 It is being mobilized in six companies, three being trained 

 at the engineering training camp at Fort Leavenworth, 

 Kansas, and the other three at American University, 

 Washington, D. C. 



SALARIES OF ENLISTED MEN 



Grade 



Monthly pay 

 in U. S. 



Master engineer, senior grade $81.00 



Master engineer, junior grade 71.00 



Regimental sergeant major 51.00 . 



Regimental supply sergeant 51.00 



Battalion sergeant major 51.00 



Battalion supply sergeant 51.00. 



Sergeant, first-class 51.00 



Sergeant bugler 48.00. 



Sergeant 44.00 . 



Stable sergeant 44.00 



Supply sergeant 44.00 . 



Mess sergeant 44.00 . 



Color sergeant 44.00 



Cook 38.00. 



Horseshoer 38.00 



Corporal 36.00 



Saddler 36.00 



Wagoner 36.00 . 



Private, first-class 33.00. 



Private, second-class 30.00 . 



Monthly pay 

 Foreign service 



$97.20 

 . 85.20 

 . 61.20 



61.20 

 . 61.20 

 . 61.20 



61.20 

 . 57.60 

 . 52.80 



52.80 

 . 52.80 

 . 52.80 



52.80 



45.60 

 . 45.60 



43.20 



43.20 

 . 43.20 

 . 39.60 

 . 36.00 



Listing of applicants for service in the regiment is in 

 the hands of the following forest officers. This listing 

 does not insure final acceptance of the appUcant, as it may 

 be necessary to reject some of the men listed for physical 

 defects or for other reasons : 



F. H. Colby, Forest Commissioner, Augusta, Maine; 

 J. S. Benedict, United States Forest Service, Gorham, 

 New Hampshire; E. C. Hirst, State Forester, Concord, 

 New Hampshire; Harris A. Reynolds, 4 Joy Street, 

 Boston, Massachusetts; W. O. Filley, State Forester, New 

 Haven, Connecticut; C. R. Pettis, superintendent of State 

 forests, Albany, New York; J. S. IlUck, Pennsylvania 

 Department of Forestry, State Forest Academy, Mont Alto, 

 Pennsylvania; F. W. Besley, State Forester, Johns Hop- 

 kins University, Baltimore, Maryland; H. L. Johnson, 

 United States Forest Service, Elkins, West Virginia; 

 S. H. Marsh, United States Forest Service, Harrisonburg, 

 Virginia; Verne Rhoades, United States Forest Service, 

 Asheville, North Carolina; H. G. Spahr, United States 

 Forest Service, Blue Ridge, Georgia; E. P. Bushnell, 

 United States Forest Service, Johnson City, Tennessee; 

 Edmund Secrest, State Forester, Wooster, Ohio; T. B. 

 Wyman, Munising, Michigan; W. T. Cox, State Forester, 

 St. Paul, Minnesota; G. E. Marshall, United States 

 Forest Service, Cass Lake, Minnesota; F. B. Moody, 

 Conservation Commissioner, Madison, Wisconsin; J. H. 

 Foster, State Forester, College Station, Texas; The For- 

 ester, United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C; 

 District Forester, United States Forest Service, Federal 

 Building, Missoula, Montana; District Forester, United 

 States Forest Service, New Federal Building, Denver, 



Colorado; District Forester, United States Forest Service, 

 Gas and Electric Building, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 

 District Forester, United States Forest Service, Forest 

 Service Building, Ogden, Utah; District Forester, United 

 States Forest Service, 114 Sansome Street, San Fran- 

 cisco, California; District Forester, United States Forest 

 Service, Beck Building, Portland, Oregon. 



The duty of this regiment will be the cutting of timber 

 and its manufacture into the forms needed for military use. 

 Railroad ties will be produced in large quantities for repair- 

 ing the French railroads. Military use, coupled with a lack 

 of men available for railroad work, has resulted in rapid 

 deterioration of the railroads leading up to the front. A 

 good deal of the timber cut will be used for bridge con- 

 struction and large quantities must also be produced for 

 trench timbers. The arts of peace must be pushed, too, in 

 order to make successful prosecution of the war possible, 

 so a good deal of lumber will be produced for building oper- 

 ations as well as for mine props and cordwood. 



The location of the field of operations is not made known 

 for military reasons. The work will be done, however, in 

 the French forests of oak, beech, hornbeam and other hard- 

 woods, with occasional stands of pine. The timber in these 

 areas is small in comparison with that of most American 

 forests, much of it being only eight to twelve inches La 

 diameter. In character these lands are much like the 

 woodlots of Southern New England, and on the whole the 

 operations will be similar to portable sawmill logging in 

 Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, and Virginia. 



France has managed her forests scientifically for a great 

 many years, using them on the permanent, sustained yield 

 basis. Although the exigencies of the war put the timber 

 needs far above the yield, every possible means will be 

 used to reduce waste to the absolute minimum and thus 

 preserve as much of the forest as possible for future produc- 

 tion. The American regiment will therefore be called upon 

 not only to turn out the lumber at high speed, but to do it 

 with high efficiency as well. The condition of the forests 

 after the selective cutting operation has been completed 

 will tell more plainly than words bow well the American 

 woodsmen know their business. The personnel of the 

 regiment allows no doubt that the work will be done 

 thoroughly and with speed, as well as on correct scientific 

 principles. 



As the magazine goes to press, the Forest Service 

 announces that it is prepared to organize one or more 

 additional regiments if they are needed. Indications are 

 that more will be needed, and in that case the men will 

 be recruited as soon as the organization of the first regi- 

 ment is completed. Since the first announcement of the 

 organization of this body of expert woodsmen was made, 

 the offices of the Forest Service and the American For- 

 estry Association have been flooded with inquiries and 

 applications from every section of the country. The 

 eagerness of the men to serve makes it certain that as 

 many regiments as are needed will be recruited without 

 delay. 



So a considerable part of America's part in the war will 

 be an intensive application of the principles of civilization, 

 conservation and construction. 



