when the detachment of Co. F. took it over. When 

 we took it over three weeks later, from Co. F., they 

 had a record of 4700 feet b.m. for a ten hour shift. 

 The facts were, though, that their average normal 

 cut was about 2,000 feet. The third day we ran the 

 mill we cut 5,700 odd feet and thought we had out- 

 done ourselves. A little later Phillips as head saw- 

 er put up a record cut of over 8,000 feet in ten 

 hours. And so it went. In midsummer we were 

 getting around 10,000 to 11,000 per ten hour shift, 

 or over 20,000 average per day. That doesn't sound 

 very big, but you should have seen the mill. 



Along in July our regimental "efficiency expert" 

 Captain X, came around and announced that he was 

 going to double the mill's output by building an 

 addition onto the north side of the mill. He built 

 it. He dragged up an old French engine that had 

 fly wheels nearly 8 feet in diameter. I would like 

 to know what he paid for it. He built a Dutch 

 oven under it, in which to burn saw dust. He had 

 a crew of three master engineers working a week 

 installing the machinery according to his directions. 

 The machinery was resurrected apparently from some 

 long since discarded French mill, and only one that 

 has lived a while in France can appreciate what a 

 thing discarded by a Frenchman is like. He remodel- 

 ed the new addition after the original mill, except 

 that for some unexplainable reason he put the head 

 saw next to the old mill, and the resaw on the outside ; 

 so that the slabs had to be carried across the plat- 

 form of the head saw to get them to the second resaw. 

 It took us two days after the Captain had left to tear 



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