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Forest Service was 16 inches, to be raised or lowered slightly as the 
stand of trees was found open or dense, the object being to dis- 
tribute as evenly as possible the trees left standing as a basis for a 
second crop. After the first few weeks of marking, this practice 
was given up, and the diameter limit was lowered to 15 inches. All 
trees 15 inches and over in diameter are now being cut regardless of 
whether the stand is open or dense or whether the average diameter 
of the trees is large or small. Care, however, is exercised in the 
felling, so that except in dense clumps, where a certain amount of 
injury is unavoidable, but few of the trees under 15 inches left stand- 
ing as a basis forasecond crop are broken down or otherwise damaged. 
Except where extra length is required to fill special bills, it is the 
rule to cut short logs of the regulation 16, 14, and 12 foot lengths. 
This makes it possible to work up the timber much more closely than 
is commonly done in longleaf-pine logging, where log lengths of from 
24 to 36 feet are cut. The bole of the tree is used well up into the 
top, and very little material is left in the woods that can be put 
through the mill at a profit. Together with the longleaf, loblolly, 
and shortleaf pine, white and cow oak and yellow poplar logs are taken 
wherever merchantable trees of these species are found. 
TRANSPORTATION. 
The company removes its timber by a private railroad which con- 
nects with the Central Railroad of Georgia at Overbrook, about + miles 
west of Hollins. This road enters the surveyed area in the northwest 
corner of section 8, township 24 north, range 18 east, and extends in a 
generally southwestern direction into the center of section 12, where 
the company’s logging camp is now located. From this point, if the 
original plans are carried out, it will be extended across the northwest 
quarter of section 13 into the eastern edge of section 14, and then 
turn south, leaving the divide and following the valley of Finne- 
gotchkee Creek through sections 24, 25, 26, and 35 of township 24 
north, range 17 east, and sections 2, 10, 15, and 22 of township 23 
north, range 17 east. 
This main line, which will be in use for several years and may 
finally become a permanent railroad, is being built to last. The route 
has been carefully surveyed and grading is being thoroughly done. 
The only place, however, where construction will be at all expensive 
is in sections 15 and 22 of township 23 north, range 17 east, in the 
Finnegotchkee Narrows, where the creek cuts through the Weogufka 
Mountains and where the slopes are very steep and rocky. A good 
deal of heavy grading and bridge building will be necessary. The 
temporary spurs which run out from the main line at quarter-mile to 
half-mile intervals, following, as a rule, the water courses, where 
