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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10, 1917 



Dorr Skeels, logging engineer and professor of forestry at the University 

 of Montana. The three captains taken from university professorships are 

 chosen because of their extensive past experience in practical lumbering 

 and other woods work. 



First Lientbnants : Risden T. Allen of the Allen-Medley Lumber Com- 

 pany, Devereux, Ga. ; M. S. Benedict, forest supervisor ; Robert L. Deerlng, 

 forest examiner ; Clarence R. Dunston, lumberman, IJ. S. Indian Service ; 

 D. P. Godwin, forest examiner ; J. G. Kelly, lumberman, of Portland. Ore. ; 

 Eugene L. Lindsay, forest examiner ; E. C. Sanford, forest supervisor ; 

 H. C. Williams, ex-forest supervisor ; Stanley L. Wolfe, forest examiner ; 

 J. B. Woods of the Arkansas Land and Lumber Company, Malvern, Ark. ; 

 Herman Work, deputy forest supervisor. 



Second Lieuten.^nts : H, R. Condon, forester with the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad ; S. H. Hodgman, logging camp foreman with the Fotlatch Timber 

 Company, Potlatch, Idaho ; W^ H. Gallaher, forest examiner ; J. W. Seltzer, 

 forester with the New Jersey Zinc Company ; H. B. Shepard, forester with 

 the Lincoln Pulp Company ; E. F. Wohlenberg, forest examiner. 



Recruiting for the rank and file of the regiment is actively 

 under way. The enlisted men will be picked woodsmen. With 

 only two thousand men needed out of the vast number of woods 

 workers which the lumber industry of the United States employs, 

 and with rapid recruiting necessary, a special machinery has been 

 developed to handle the preliminary stages of enlistment. Local 

 representatives of the Forest Service in various parts of the coun- 

 try and a number of state forestry officials have been designated 

 as "listing officers" to secure applications from men in their 

 neighborhood who are known to be of the right type. By this 

 still hunt method it is believed that an efficient force can be 

 gathered much more successfully than by encouraging a large 

 number of miscellaneous applications which could not be thoroughly 

 sifted without a great deal of work. 



The government will pay the expenses of the enlisted men from 

 their place of enlistment to the training camp at Washington. 

 Their salaries will be paid while in training and in active work. 

 The men will cut and supply timber in France, and also in Germany 

 after the army has crossed the Ehine. They are not expected to 

 do any fighting, but their work may fall within the danger zone. 

 The enlistment must be for the period of the war. Becruits must 

 be between the ages of 18 and 40 and must be citizens of the 

 United States or have declared their intentions to become citizens. 

 They are required to pass the usual phj'sical examination. They 

 will wear the regular U. S. uniform. 



The number of men to be recruited and their monthly salaries 

 while in training and active service are as follows: 



Monthly pay 

 foreign service 

 $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 

 36.00 



Monthly pay 



Grade in U. S. 



6 First Sergeants $51 



18 Sergeants, First-class 51 



1 Sergeant Bugler 48 



50 Sergeants 44 



6 Stable Sergeants 44 



6 Supply Sergeants 44 



6 Mess Sergeants 44 



2 Color Sergeants 44 



19 Cooks 38 



6 Horseshoers 38 



108 Corporals 36 



G Saddlers 36 



27 Wagoners 36 



186 Privates, First-class 33 



558 Privates, Second-class 30 



12 Buglers 30 



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ISforthern Loggers Meet 



The Northern Wisconsin Loggers' Association held a meeting 

 at the Hotel Pfister, Milwaukee, on Thursday, October 4. Among 

 the subjects up for discussion were the question of piece vvork 

 sawing in the woods, regulated schedules for feeding loggers, 

 greater uniformity in wages, and the creation of zones in which 

 each logger would operate so that his crews could be handled 

 on a similar basis to that on which his neighbors operate. It was 

 voted that one meatless and one wheatlesa day each week be 

 inaugurated immediately in the logging camps. 



There followed a discussion of general conditions and a talk 

 by W. E. Hollenbeck of the J. W. Wells Lumber Company on 

 economical methods of laying logging roads. 



The important subject of piece-work wood sawing vs. monthly 

 wage basis was given discussion. There was no exception to the 

 unanimous claim that the amount of work produced on the piece 

 work basis is greater than when the laborers are on the monthly 

 wage scale. The average cost showed five cents to each sawyer 

 on hemlock logs and seven to nine cents for cutting hardwood 

 timber on the piece work basis. The lowest figure submitted was 

 four cents on hemlock and the highest twelve cents on hardwoods. 



It was agreed that it would be poor policy to raise the present 

 price of $5.50 a week for boarding a man even though this figure 

 results in an actual loss. It was considered unwise to tempt fate 

 by raising the price in the face of labor shortage. 



Mr. Kneeland of the Kneeland-McLurg Lumber Company, Phil- 

 lips, Wis., stated that it cost approximately 23% cents for every 

 meal fed to a lumber jack, this figure being 34 per cent higher 

 than the cost prevailing last June. 



W. G. Collar of the West Lumber Company, Lugerville, Wis., 

 discussed the modern ear camp as compared to the old style of 

 ground camp. Mr. Collar's conclusions showed definitely that the 

 car camp is not only more economical but more sanitary and useful. 



Following a general discussion of regional associations as com- 

 ponent parts of the parent body, a committee of three was ap- 

 pointed to take this matter up and make a report later. The com- 



mittee consists of M. J. Quinlan, W. A. Holt and W. E. Hollenbeck. 



The meeting having been requested to suggest the names of 

 candidates for the commission of major in the newly recruiting 

 Twentieth engineers, the sub-committee of the Council of National 

 Defense was wireil the following recommendations: E. J. Brig- 

 ham, Ironwood, Mich.; Joseph McGinnis, Wausau, Wis., and T. B. 

 Tuttlc, Marshfield, Wis. 



In the election of officers President McLurg and Secretary 

 Maitland were re-elected to their respective offices. 



Doing Business With Uncle Sam 



Uncle Sam is a bigger customer for practically everything manu- 

 factured than ever before, as a result of the huge war organization 

 which is being created. Lumber is no exception, and millions of feet 

 are being purchased for use in government work. Every kind of wood 

 is being made use of and, directly or indirectly, hundreds of lumber 

 concerns are sharing in the business offered. 



One advantage of this is that the average lumberman, who has here- 

 tofore let government contracts severely alone, is becoming familiar 

 with the modus operandi of bidding on government work, and with 

 the needs of the various departments. He is learning that Uncle 

 Sam is not such a tough customer as he thouglit he was, and that he 

 is just as easy to deal with as a railroad or any other big corporation. 



Even after the war is over and the requirements of the government 

 become more nearly normal, this will be of benefit, in that the hard- 

 wood man will have learned the ropes, and will be more inclined to 

 keep in touch with Washington in the matter of lumber purchases. 

 This is something which will help the Government and individual 

 members of the trade at the same time. 



If we could have the exact figures before us on the amount of power 

 consumed in the average jdaning mill to feed the stock through the 

 machines, it would be a great stimulating factor along the line of 

 seeking ways and means to lighten this burden. 



