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170 THE WOODSMAN’S HANDBOOK. 
TABLE 47.—Lodgepole Pine.2 
Average number of first (6’’ by 8’” by 8’) and second-class railroad ties 
and of mine props, based on actual cutting, Medicine Bow National 
Forest, Wyo. 
HEIGHT OF TREE (FEET). 
894 
Ties in the run of diameters were about 25 per cent second class. Props are 
given in linear feet, to about a 6-inch top. Trees over 15 inches give better re- 
turns in lumber. 
a Measurements by P. G. Redington—1905. 
