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timber during the winter, the getting down 

 the stream or creek can be safely left until 

 the spring, mainly because the streams will 

 be full of water from the melting snow, and 

 thus make it considerably easier to get the 

 timber to the port of shipment. 



It is said that some of the timber is fre- 

 quently as much as two years in course of 

 transit to the coastal mills placed at the 

 estuary of practically every river. In Scan- 

 dinavia there will be found a timber pool, 

 and from it will be taken constant supplies 

 for the use of the saw mills which border 

 the pool. Here the trunks are cut up into 

 what are called boards, battens and deals. 

 So far as possible it is arranged to cut the 

 timber into thin planks which will require 

 very little further cutting to adapt them for 

 boxes. 



To show the enormous demand made 

 upon the saw mills it may be mentioned 

 that the great firm of Lever Brothers need 

 something like six million sections of box 

 parts every year, and it will, therefore, be 

 appreciated that their timber arrives by the 



