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fact gone back to first principles and devised a rule of their own 

 which gives the actual contents of logs in cubic feet from measured 

 length and middle diameter. A measure like that, discounted for 

 bark as careful studies have shown them should be done, gives exact- 

 ly the information about its logs the company requires when they 

 are to be used in pulp and paper manufacture. 



A few general reflections, which seem to be worthy of note, are 

 suggested in this connection. The first is that work of just the na- 

 ture here outlined is under the circumstances of the case, real for- 

 estry. That admitted, it is instructive for one thing to note what 

 kind of men have been instrumental in bringing success about. Wil- 

 liam Lanigan, the head of the land business of the company, is an 

 old Kennebec lumberman and log driver, one of those forcible and 

 clear-headed men without much schooling, so common in all lines of 

 American business. For a woodsman he has more than ordinary 

 thoughtfulness and hospitality to new ideas. His time is spent 

 mainly outside the woods directing logging operations only in a 

 large way, keeping in touch with business both inside and outside 

 his own concern. He is the man v/ho devised the system of moun- 

 tain watch stations, connected by telephone with the wardens below, 

 which proved so efficient in preventing forest fires on the upper Ken- 

 nebec last year. 



Under him come the walking-bosses so-called, men who have gen- 

 eral charge of a section of the company's woods operations. Lewis 

 Oakes, who has charge of the eight or ten camps east of Moosehead 

 Lake, is a land surveyor by training who has been familiar with tim- 

 ber and with logging since boyhood; and, while he may never have 

 chojjped, or run a camp himself, he knows perfectly well how it 

 ought to be done. He looks out the location of the camps and main 

 roads in summer, and, after logging begins, he sees to it, that the 

 camps are stocked with tools, supplies and men, giving advice, set- 

 tling disputes, and in general keeping things in smooth running 

 order. 



Camp foremen are an important item in the organization. These 

 are men of the usual type and training, though a sifting process is 

 constantly going on for the best and most efficient. The workmen, 

 too, are like those found in other concerns in the region, many of 

 them French Canadians. Nothing perhaps to secure the best work 

 either need or can be done with them except to organize and watch 

 their work and use them liberally in the matters of food, quarters 

 and pay. The marking is done by bright young woodsmen who are 



