the others and it made little difference where yon 

 started the comparison. A small imitation of a trim- 

 mer which consisted of one single saw was also in- 

 cluded. In trimming boards one had to trim one end 

 and then drag the board back, turn it around and run 

 the other end through. The accompanying sketch will 

 illustrate the floor plan better than I can describe it. 



The carriage of the head saw consisted simply of a 

 flat slab of steel about seven feet long and two feet 

 wide mounted on grooved wheels that ran on a narrow 

 track. A set of cogs ran the full length of the under 

 surface, which meshed with a cog wheel fitted with a 

 crank. The sawer turned the crank and slowly drag- 

 ged the log through the saw. The French saws were 

 practically worthless and soon had to be discarded 

 after much wasted effort trying to make them work. 

 We then were supplied with Atkins saws. Some were 

 of the inserted tooth type and some were not. For 

 the larger saws the inserted tooth saws gave the best 

 results if the power to run them was available, which 

 it often was riot. 



The men at the company headquarters were divided 

 into a number of crews. There were the cooks and 

 the K. P.'s, the stable crew, the two mill crews, the 

 loading crew or stevedore crew as they called them- 

 selves, the office force, and the repair man. The 

 number of men in these crews varied from time to 

 time depending on supply and demand as it were. As 

 a general rule each crew was from two to four men 

 short of what it should have been at all times. AYe 

 wore quartered in some little old French barracks. 

 The roofs leaked pretty bad, but they weren't so bad 



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