were then rolled out on the decks with peavies and 

 cant hooks. The decks were constructed by laying 

 hi'wn poles perpendicular to the road way. After 

 using these log decks a few days they rapidly sank 

 from sight in the mud, and I have seen logs 20 to 30 

 inches in diameter completely disappear in the mud 

 when rolled on them. The loaders would then have 

 to wade out in the mud over their knees in order to 

 get the cross haul chains under the logs. 

 (To be Continued) 



The Truth From the Rocky Mountain News 



WASTING OUR HERITAGE 



Posterity will pay homage to the patriotic foresight 

 of Gifford Pinchot, forester, in arousing the present 

 generation to the necessity of saving its forests. His 

 conservation policy was a distinctive feature of the 

 American awakening under Roosevelt. True, the 

 West did not take kindly to the Pinchot idealism at 

 the time. It resented " foreign landlordism." With- 

 drawal of great tracts in the public land states made 

 us feel " small" at first; and it was a curt intimation 

 that we had been unmindful of our heritage and waste- 

 ful of that which belonged not to us wholly but joint- 

 ly with posterity. The Pinchot policy struck home 

 at the "malefactors of great wealth" and lesser in- 

 terests. Timber barons and cattle barons, railroad 

 contractors and hydro-electric corporations formed a 

 powerful opposition and ministered to local preju- 

 dices. 



Today we see without prejudice that Pinchot on the 



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