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THE WOODSMAN'S HANDBOOK. 



TABLE 47. Lodgepole Pine. a 



Average number of first (6" by 8" by 8') and second-class railroad ties 

 and of mine props, based on actual cutting, Medicine Bow National 

 Forest, Wyo. 



Ties in the run of diameters were about 25 per cent second class. Props are 

 given in linear feet, to about a 6-inch top. Trees over 15 inches give better re- 

 turns in lumber. 



a Measurements by P. G. Redington 1905. 



