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FOREST PRODUCTS 



The " seconds " or No. 2 ties were those which failed to pass inspection 

 as No. i ties : 



The following data were supplied by the U. S. Forest Service from 

 a tie chance on the Tongue River within the Bighorn National Forest 

 in Wyoming, where 1,555,000 standard gauge hewed and sawed ties were 

 taken out on a flume operation. Most of the timber was lodgepole pine 

 and a very limited amount of Engelmann spruce. Most of the ties were 

 hewed. 



On an operation in the Northwest where 22,000 Douglas fir, western 

 larch and a few lodgepole pine ties were cut the following costs were noted. 

 A i6o-rod chute was used to get the ties down a steep place followed by 

 a 4^ -mile wagon haul where two trips per day were taken and frequently 

 loads of 50 to 60 ties handled per load. Skidding for a distance of | to | 

 mile was done by hand. 



