been cut by the French before the Germans found out 

 what they were doing and drove them out. We only 

 had 1'ii teams. The haul was up hill and about two 

 miles long, because of a big detour necessary to avoid 

 some trenches and barbed wire entanglements. We 

 used two four ups. The horses were hitched with one 

 team in front of the other, and both teams pulled on 

 the same set of tugs after the fashion of the western 

 "four-lip/' 1 We had a neat scheme worked up to get 

 around the shortage of horses that always handicapped 

 us. A narrow gauge railway ran through the timber 

 and had numerous spurs. Some of these ran down 

 into the timber we were logging. We thought to get 

 a few ears and load them up and have them hauled up 

 to the mill. It worked, two days, and then plans for 

 the drive on Metz began to formulate and every car 

 available was needed to haul up ammunition. The 

 roads were seas of mud. The eight-wheeled wagons, 

 we had, pulled like great stone boats. It was necessary 

 to wash the horses' feet and legs twice a day in order- 

 to keep them from getting sore. One team was kept 

 busy all of the time hauling water for the engine, 

 horses, and for the men. A pipe line was put in for 

 us. but no w r ater ever came up it. Maybe it was. 

 never attached to the mains.. 



We had a small portable bolter mill of 5000 capacity 

 made by the American Sawmill Machinery Company, 

 and , L 'or power we had a 20 II. P. Farquar engine and 

 boiler. This was the first American sawmill we had 

 had a chance to use and it sure w r as a relief after the 

 months with the old Frog contraptions. The small 

 bolt''r mill was a cable, friction feed type, with a small 



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