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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ANOTHER TYPE OF THE 20-M AMERICAN SAWMILLS USED BY THE AMERICAN FORESTRY AND LUMBERING TROOPS IN FRANCE 



doubled or trebled by the lumberjack soldiers. 

 As the American mills were installed and production 

 jumped month by month, fierce joy of rivalry seized the 

 souls of the forest engineers. Time would fail to tell of 

 the early contest between A and B Companies .of the 

 10th Engineers, when records stood but a day or two 

 and our "ten-thousand" 

 mills showed up as twenty- 

 five and thirty thousand a 

 day producers. The larg- 

 est day's cut at any fores- 

 try operation was turned 

 out by the 27th Company 

 at Mouthe, which in 23 

 hours and 35 minutes cut 

 177,486 board feet of fir 

 lumber and timbers on a 

 "twenty-thousand" mill. 

 The largest twenty-hour 

 cut, 163,376 feet, was made 

 by the 37th Company (Old 

 F Company of the 10th 

 Engineers) at Levier with 

 the same type of mill and 

 product. The 26th Com- 

 pany at La Cluse holds the 

 record for a twenty-hour 

 run with a "ten-thousand" 

 mill, 78,881 feet; close be- 

 hind came the 24th Com- 



20th ENGINEERS FELLING LARGE BEECH TREE IN CENTRAL 



FRANCE 



pany with a record cut of 68,650 feet, the 30th with a 

 cut of 63,849 feet, and the 49th Company at Murat, 

 organized to build roads, with 63,000 feet. The 23d 

 Company, at Marchenoir, holds the record for a twenty- 

 hour cut with a "ten" mill in hardwoods, knocking off 

 55,539 feet. The 22d Company, at La Gavre, pushed its 



rival hard, however, with 

 a twenty-hour cut of 49,- 

 416 feet of oak lumber and 

 timbers. One of the best 

 hardwood records is that 

 of the 2nd Company, at 

 Grande Mirebeau, which 

 was determined to reach the 

 million a month mark with 

 a "ten" mill, and finally did 

 so, in October, with a cut 

 of 1,000,620 feet. One 

 of the most remarkable 

 achievements was that of 

 the 19th Company, which 

 in ten and one-half hours 

 cut 64,047 feet of straight 

 oak ties with a bolter mill 

 rated at five thousand feet 

 per day. 



Small wonder that the 

 American Lumberman has 

 indicted the forest engineers 

 of the American Expedi- 



