INDEX 579 



Railroad, pole road, 242, illustrations, 243, 244. 

 rail fastenings for, 288. 

 right-of-way for a, 250. 

 roadbed for a spur, 260, illustration, 260. 

 spikes for, 288. 

 straps for rails, 288. 

 steel laying and removal, 290. 

 steel rail, the first, 247. 

 steel rails for a, 287, 289. 

 stringer, 245, 435, illustration, 246. 

 Railroad operation, cypress, 431. 



Lake States, 427. 

 Northeast, 425. 

 Northwest, 434. 

 South, 428, 429. 

 West Virginia, 435, 436. 

 Railroad spurs, 253-255, 257, 258, 260, 283, 284, 287, 288, 291, 295. 

 Rails, elevation of, 294, illustration, 294. 

 guard, 290, illustration, 289. 

 incline, 297, 298, 302. 

 on log cars, log loader operation, 315, 323. 

 resistance of, to friction, 311. 

 steel, 287, 289. 

 stringer road, 247. 

 weight of, 287. 

 Raking, turpentine orcharding, 448. 



Rankin, R. L., on topographic surveys for a logging railroad, 256. 

 Rapid log loader, 326. 

 Rations, animal, calculation of, 135. 

 elements of, 132. 

 feeding standards, 133. 

 feeding stuffs, 134, 135, 137. 

 quantities fed, 136, 137. 

 water requirements, 138. 

 weight of feeding stuffs, per quart, 137. 

 men, U. S. Geological Survey, 69. 

 Maine logging camp, 69. 

 Record, Samuel J., on forest fire insurance, 38, 469. 



on suggestions to woodlot owners, 24. 

 Redwood, associated species of, 11, 14. 

 cross-cut saws for cutting, 75. 

 floating ability of, 374. 

 log car unloading device, 339. 

 log lengths, 98. 



logging with a duplex engine, 217. 

 lumber cut, 1910, 11. 

 markets, 11. 

 rossing logs, 105. 

 stand per acre, 11. 

 stand, total, in the United States, 4. 

 stumpage value of, 11. 

 uses of, II. 

 Reed, Franklin W., on a working plan for forest lands in Central Alabama, 472. 

 Reservoirs, storage, for log driving, 348. 



watershed area required for, 348. 

 Resistance, frictional, on a locomotive haul, 309, 311. 

 Restigouche River, New Brunswick, log driving on, 381. 

 Rights, timber, 251. 



Right-of-way for a railroad, 242, 246, 257-259, 283. 

 Riparian owners, legal complications with, on log drives, 345. 



