Figure fi4-. Logging in California. Powerful steam engines pull 

 tVie lops from the woods to the railroad and load them on flat cars. 

 Photo by the author. 



Figure Go. The loaded flat cars reach the saw-mill where the logs 

 are unloaded and sawn into lumber. During the fiscal year 1917 

 timber sales on the N'ational Forests brought into the National Treas- 

 ury almost $1,700,000.00. Photo by the author. 



