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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Courtesy of the Seattle Times 



machinery, and within a day takes logs* 

 back with it. 



Construction of a two-band sawmill 

 has been begun at Toledo, to be finished 

 as soon as the railroad, so logs can be 

 sawed there instead of hauling them by 

 rail all the way to Portland. The new 

 mill, being built by soldier labor, 

 will cut from 500,000 to 750,000 feet 

 of lumber a day. Only 30,000 feet a 

 day is being cut by the present mill 

 at Toledo. 



Twenty million feet of logs will be 

 cut in readiness for the completion of 

 the railroad and mill, so as to give the 

 mill a good start for the winter. The 

 logging will continue all winter in spite 

 of the high water. The winter rainfall 

 averages 70 inches, the annual rainfall 90 

 inches. The camps are being built sub- 

 stantially to provide winter comfort. 



Some of the railroad right of way had 1,000,000 feet of to one side of the right of way by hand power. The brush 

 timber per acre on it. All this had to be felled and rolled was so thick over much of the right of way that it was 



THE GREAT SHED FRAMES AT THE ELLIOTT YARD 

 These pictures are of the great shed frames which the new Elliott Bay Shipbuilding 

 Company is erecting over the building ways in its plant in the Duwamish Waterway. 

 Each of the shed frames is 300 feet long, eighty feet high and sixty wide in the 

 clear. The structures support the great overhead traveling cranes with which each 

 ways is equipped. In bad weather, canvas can be stretched over the tops of the 

 sheds. The upper picture shows the interior of the shed frame over No. 1 ways 

 in which a vessel is being framed. The lower picture shows the three great shed 

 frames already finished 



