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37 miles of main line and 23 miles of spurs within the 

 tracts. 



To ballast the 37 miles of main line will require 4,800 

 carloads of gravel about 200 train loads of 25 cars 

 to the train. Neither gravel, nor any rock that can be 

 used as a substitute, can be found in the Yaquina re- 

 gion. It is necessary to go away over the coast moun- 

 tains into the Williamette Valley near Corvallis to 

 Yaquina Bay nearly 100 miles of curving mountain 

 line. Quite a transportation problem in itself. 



This project tributary to Yaquina Bay is only one of 

 nearly a dozen projects being conducted by the Spruce 

 Production Division with soldier labor through con- 

 tractors on the cost-plus system. Here are some facts 

 about this one operation : 



Seven miles of railroad were completed north of 

 Toledo in two months this spring to reach one tract of 

 spruce. Logging now is in operation there about half 

 the logs being cut up in the revamped sawmill at 

 Toledo and about half the bigger logs shipped by rail 

 to Portland, where they are sawed in a Portland mill. 



The flitches or cants of airplane spruce are cut off from 

 the clear outsides of the logs at both mills and sent to 

 the Government's new cut-up mill at Vancouver, Wash- 

 ington. 



Already 1,800 soldiers are working in railroad con- 

 struction alone, the south railroad being graded to 

 Alsea Bay and the Blodgett tract of spruce. There will 

 be 2,150 soldiers on the job soon. 



More than 200 soldiers already are working on the 

 north line in railroad construction toward the Siletz 

 tracts, and there will be 1,200 men there shortly. 

 Soldiers are coming in by the trainload. There are 

 twenty-two soldier camps, established, with from fifty 

 to 150 men in each ; there will be 29 camps. 



These camps were operating within 62 days of the 

 time the line was roughly located. 



Two hundred and fifty teams of horses now are on 

 the grading job ; seven pile drivers ; two steam shovels. 

 The- horses are being taken in by the carload. New 

 pile drivers and crews are going in; also new shovels. 

 The job of finding this equipment in competition with all 



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St.nH.rH ^ CANADA , 1S . BUILDING U MANY WOODEN SHIPS OF A NEW TYPE TO REPLACE U-BOAT SINKINGS 

 ^!S^,^'^^^ ^L'S^i^^^^^^^^' built, a. many point. * Canada helping., o meet the necessity 

 engineer, have evolved a new type of wocrfen.hfp that aston^she, th^ i K Ki m,n ' ed wlth !nar P "PP'ng of pneumatic rivetters. Structural 

 strengthening device, at all point, f rom keV| to poop deck and at ,hl sl "P bu ' ld s f P a8t X. wh new . and hitherto undreamed of 

 building for the first time. This photograph shows a ."hip when about half "TV'T w,tness modcrn construction device, utilized in wooden ship, 

 laying the platform for the construction and erection of other frames " *" '" P fanned to the keel, with the workmen 



