THE FORESTRY TROOPS IN FRANCE 



397 



This is the view point from 

 which we regard those 

 production figures over 

 here, which is shared at 

 least by those in the States 

 who selected and are giv- 

 ing their tireless and skill- 

 ful attention to sending the 

 Forestry Troops their sup- 

 plies. "When you get over 

 there, you'll be a long way 

 from home and mother, 

 boys." When he said that, 

 Major Long showed that 

 he had a good conception 

 of the forestry task in 

 France. 



So a total of 26,000,000 

 is a figure the troops are 



JUST AT TWILIGHT 



This shows the skidways at one of the 20,000-foot American mills in 

 France, 1st Battalion, 10th Engineers. Ready for the night run. 



feet of lumber to April 30 

 justly proud of as far as 



they have gone; they are 

 now getting nicely into their 

 stride. There is no telling 

 what they will do when all 

 of the mills get under 

 way. The monthly out- 

 puts have been increasing 

 constantly by leaps and 

 bounds; in March the re- 

 ports showed 6,965,000 feet; 

 in April 14,578,000 feet. 

 The forecast for May is 

 15,000,000 feet. It is just 

 to be plainly seen now that 

 with the full complement of 

 equipment rapidly coming 

 into play, with the saw- 

 mills buzzing day and night, Uncle Sam soon will be 

 able to rout the Germans with the lumber he is putting out. 



DONATIONS TO THE WELFARE FUND FOR LUMBERMEN AND 



FORESTERS IN WAR SERVICE 



AMERICAN FORESTRY will publish each month the list of those making donations to this fund. Many of the donations 

 from members of the American Forestry Association so far received were made without solicitation and were inspired by 

 reading in the magazine that a relief and comfort fund for men of the forest regiments was being collected. Many substan- 

 tial contributions are being received from the Forest Service and from lumber companies and lumbermen following requests sent 

 to them by the Secretary of the Welfare Fund for Lumbermen and Foresters in War Service, by the lumber organizations of 

 which they are members, and by the committees of lumbermen which had charge in various sections of the United States of 

 securing enlistments for the forest regiments. 



Contributions to the Welfare Fund to June 20, 1918. are as follows: 



Previously acknowledged $19,497 06 



Carpender, Mrs. Charles J 400 



Eckert, Harry K 3 00 



Geisler, Max 5 00 



Gunnison National Forest 18.00 



Nelson, John M., Jr 



Henry B. Newhall, Jr. 

 Soble, John J 



5 00 



10 00 



2 00 



Total $19,544.06 



WORK OF THE WELFARE FUND 

 COMMENDED 



J IEUT.-COL. W. B. Greeley, attached to the Forestry 

 -' Section of the Engineer Corps, and in direct touch 

 with the boys of the lumber and forest regiments now at 

 work in France, writes as follows to the Committee 

 having in charge the Fund for the Welfare of Lumber- 

 men and Foresters in War Service : 



"I want to tell you also of my very deep personal 

 appreciation of the admirable work done by the foresters 

 and lumbermen of the country through the 'Welfare 

 Fund' and to express my thanks to yourself and your 

 associates. Thanks to your efforts, our troops are being 

 splendidly supplied with recreational facilities and per- 

 sonal comforts ; and I can assure you that they are mighty 

 welcome to our men. The average soldier suffers more 

 from lonesomeness than anything else. The arrival of 

 a mail train brings us all a thrill of expectancy like that 

 of children called to a Christmas tree. It means a great 

 deal to men under these conditions to know that old 

 friends and new friends at home are remembering them, 

 wholly aside from the comfort and recreations made 



possible by your generous gifts. I hope and intend that 

 you will hear from me more frequently in the future. I 

 am reading the numbers of American Forestry with more 

 than the old-time appreciation and enjoyment. It is 

 certainly holding up to its possibilities splendidly." 



A NEW USE FOR DOUGLAS FIR 



"V7"ET another use has been discovered for Douglas fir 

 -*- the principal forest product of West Oregon and 

 Western Washington. The United States Steamboat In- 

 spection service at Washington, D. C, is preparing to 

 make elaborate tests of Douglas fir with a view to its ex- 

 tensive use for the manufacture of oars for naval, emerg- 

 ency fleet and merchant marine use. 



This only goes to prove once more that Douglas fir is 

 one of America's most useful woods. The possibility of 

 Douglas fir oars was called to the attention of the Gov- 

 ernment last fall by the New York Boat Building Com- 

 pany, which previously had been in correspondence with 

 the West Coast Lumbermen's Association on this sub- 

 ject and had made up a number of fir oars which proved 

 to be highly satisfactory. 



