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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ANOTHER TYPE OF THE 20.M AMERICAN SAWMILLS USED BY THE AMI KK \\ FORESTRY AND LUMBERING TROOPS IN FRANCE 



doubled or trebled by the lumberjack soldiers, pany witli a record cut of 68,650 feet, the 30th with a 

 As the American mills were installed and production cut of 63,849 feet, and the 49th Company at Murat, 

 jumped month by month, fierce joy of rivalry seized the organized to build roads, with 63,000 feet. The 23d 

 souls of the forest engineers. Time would fail to tell of Company, at Marchenoir, holds the record for a twenty- 

 the early contest between A and R Companies of the hour cut with a "ten" mill in hardwoods, knocking off 

 10th Engineers, when records stood but a day or two 55,539 feet. The 22d Company, at La Gavre, pushed its 



rival hard, however, with 

 a twenty-hour cut of 49,- 

 416 feet of oak lumber and 

 timbers. One of the best 

 hardwood records is that 

 "f the 2nd Company, at 

 (irande Mirebeau, which 

 was determined to reach the 

 million a month mark with 

 a "ten" mill, and finally did 

 ■:o. in October, with a cut 

 I if 1,000,620 feet. One 

 of the most remarkable 

 achievements was that of 

 I he 19th C'onijjany, which 

 in ten and one-half hours 

 cut 64,047 feet of straight 

 oak ties with a bolter mill 

 rated at five thousand feet 

 I)er day. 



Small wonder that the 

 .\mcrican Lumberman has 

 indicted the forest engineers 

 of the American Expedi- 



and our "ten-thousand" 

 mills showed up as twenty- 

 five and thirty thousand a 

 day producers. The lar^'- 

 est day's cut at any fores- 

 try operation was turned 

 out by the 27th Com])any 

 at Mouthe, which in 23 

 hours and 35 minutes cut 

 177,486 board feet of lir 

 lumber and timbers on a 

 "twenty-thousand" mill. 

 The largest twenty-hour 

 cut, 163,376 feet, was made 

 by the 37th Company (Old 

 F Company of the loth 

 Engineers) at Levier with 

 the same type of mill and 

 product. The 26th Com- 

 IJany at La Cluse holds the 

 record for a twenty-hour 

 run with a "ten-thousand" 

 mill, 78,881 feet ; close be- 

 hind came the 24th Com- 



ENGINEERS FELLING L.ARGE BEECH TREE IN CENTRAL 

 FRANCE 



