WHITE MOUNTAIN WINTER WORK 



FORESTERS who have just re- From these estimates the full amount 

 turned from winter work in of timber was calculated, 

 the White Mountains of New One man, the crew leader, used a 

 Hampshire report that, while compass to keep the men in the desired 

 some hardship is entailed, as much can direction, mapped the country traversed, 

 be accomplished in the dead of winter kept account of the distances covered 

 as in summer. as determined by actual measurement, 

 In most of the Government's field and recorded all the information re- 

 services it is usually thought best to garding timber. The other members of 

 work in the north during the summer th crew measured the timber and gave 

 months and in the south during the win- their figures to the leader who tallied 

 ter, the. idea being to do the work with them - The actual work however, did 

 the least difficulty In appraising lands not end with all-day climbs through 

 for purchase under the Weeks law for sn on the mountainsides, with f re- 



, quent exposure to the sweep of winds 



the eastern national forests however, ^ the ^^ ^ and ^ duf _ 



the Forest Service has had to disre- j the j winter eyenm or on d 



gard latitude and season because it was when the snQW storms were SQ seyere 



necessary to expedite the work in the that outside work was impossible, the 



north. During the past winter two fig ures gathered were tabulated and the 



camps of men have been estimating and information grouped, so as to show the 



valuing the forests which the Govern- quantities of timber suitable for various 



ment contemplates purchasing on the products, such as saw timber, spruce 



slopes of the White Mountains. for paper pulp, or birch for spool mak- 



Because of the softness of the con- ing. During the whole winter, how- 



stantly falling snow, the work was ever, it was noted that stormy days 



done mainly on snow shoes. At times caused no more loss of time than in 



the temperature has been around 20 summer, and the health of the men in 



degrees below zero for considerable the party was, as a rule, better than in 



periods, and the parties now in report hot weather. 



some occasions when the thermometers It is said that the men became quite 



registered nearly 40 degrees below. The inured to the cold and liked it, one of 



crews were housed in winter camps like the principal advantages being the abso- 



those of the lumberjacks, and in order lute freedom from insects, such as gnats 



to make full use of the short winter and mosquitoes. While these same 



days they were out by daylight and did crews might appreciate an assignment to 



not return until dark. The work of the same region for the following sum- 



the crews required continuous walking, mer, those who have the work in charge 



Diameters of trees were measured and say it may be the lot of these same men 



the number of logs estimated in all to be assigned to the pine regions of 



merchantable trees growing on parallel the south during the hottest weather of 



strips 4 yards wide and 40 rods apart. August. 



Indian Fire Patrolman 



The Canadian government is using Indian fire patrolmen to protect the forests of 

 northern Manitoba. 



Walnut For Gun Stocks 



A Pennsylvania gun company is using the waste pieces of black and Circassian walnut, 

 left after veneer cutting, for gun stocks. 



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