as clumsy as a mountain lion. It sure was pretty 

 work to see them handle logs. 



The logs were delivered to the mill either on 

 wagons or by trucks. By far the majority from the 

 Neufeys Forest were hauled on trucks as it was too 

 long a haul for a team. Three ton English and 

 American made trucks were used. The Mack truck 

 w r as one of the most successful of the American made 

 trucks used. A couple of five ton Whites were also 

 used with and without trailers. The splendid sys- 

 tem of roads maintained by the French even through 

 their forests made the use of trucks possible. These 

 roads were made of crushed rock rolled with heavy 

 rollers, and made a fine paved road. They were nar- 

 row, however ,and if a truck met some one else great 

 care had to be taken not to get off the road, for if 

 one did there was great probability of staying right 

 there. 



Our relations with the French Forestry Service were, 

 as a rule, quite friendly. Since reading the article in 

 a recent issue of American Forestry by Col. Graves, 

 on the laws regulating the French forests. I have 

 marvelled a little at this for some of the things we 

 did were little short of treason and arson as viewed 

 by the French forest code. However, the forestry 

 officials must have been men of broad vision, and 

 realized that there were extenuating circumstances 

 which offset our vandalism. The French foresters 

 marked the trees, which were to be cut, with a small 

 blaze near the bottom of the trunk. Sometimes they 

 would make remarks when the stumps were left too 

 high or brush was not properly piled, but usually 



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