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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



transjx>rtation.* A total footage of over 40,000,000 has 

 already been shipped to the eastern yards. Meanwhile 

 the forests of the South have been producing slowly but 

 surely a good percentage of their quota so that at the 

 present time we are not far 

 behind our estimated pro- 

 gram of production. 



Most of this additional 

 stock from the Pacific for- 

 ests was sent in special 

 trains ranging from twenty 

 to forty cars in length. 

 These trains were sent di- 

 rect to some breaking up 

 point in the center of the 

 country and the timber then 

 distributed to the yards 

 needing it at that time. 

 More than 1,800 cars left 

 the coast in these trains. 



A new record for speed 

 .vas established when one 

 of these trains made the 

 trip from Washington to 

 New York in a little less 

 than seven days. 



Some of the stock was 

 moved by boat to Atlantic ports near the shipyards. This 

 was done in order to relieve the freight congestion as 

 much as possible. These boats, as well as the trains, 



Committee of Public Information 



"COME TO DINNER, MEN" 

 This is the welcome sound wciich John A. Riley, civil war veteran, is 

 ringing out to the lumber jackies in this northwestern forest. After a 

 hard day's work in the cutting down of big trees and dragging them out, 

 the men are ready for the call to the "mess hall." These workers who 

 are furnishing the timber needed 

 doing a patriotic work. 



made every effort to lessen the time required for ship- 

 ment. One steamer, the "City of Portland," sailed from 

 Portland, Oregon, to Portland, Maine, in forty days, 

 carrying a cargo of 2,000,000 feet of ship stock. 



The vast forests of the 

 West, luxuriant in their 

 growth of the gigantic Doug- 

 las fir, have given bounti- 

 fully of their trees. The 

 abundance of large trees 

 made it a comparatively 

 easy task to supply not only 

 the ships building in the 

 West with the big frame 

 items, but in addition some 

 of the ships building in the 

 East and South. No ser- 

 ious difficulty was experi- 

 enced in the logging opera- 

 tions, due to the fact that 

 large trees could be found 

 within reach of the logging 

 zone. Logs had to be pro- 

 duced that could turn out 

 timber 20" x 20" x 20' and 

 30" x 30", but the woods of 

 Washington and Oregon 

 are rich in such trees, splendid trees that have obtained 

 their greatness through years and years of slow strong 

 growth. 



for America's ship construction, are 



Committee of Public Information GETTING OUT THE LOGS 



Here we have a skidding machine at work in the Louisiana forest land iieur New Orleans, taking out for ship construction many of the logs 

 which are entering into the vessels being built in that part of the country. The yellow pine forests are furnishing their share of the 45,000,000 feet 

 which have been demanded of the forests of the United States by the Emergency Fleet Corporation. While their brother woodsmen in the 

 Northwest are felling the big Douglas fir, the lumber jackies in the South are working equally hard to get out the needed supplies. 



