: d m logging. To save the expense of building roads, they hot 
in sany places out tiie tops off t^o ’nigh treesgay the 
stmaps stronglv and stretch a line between the tops, on which a 
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block runs. A line is run through the block, hooked round one end 
of a log and the donkey hauls it across country over stumps, across 
ravines, etc., to the cars. This photo showed a tree being cut 
190 ft. from the ground, the ..an clinging to the stump and the 
top iust falling and at an angle of 45 degrees. A friend, a superin¬ 
tend ant of a large camp, told rae that the top ' Tr ill toibrate as much 
as 50 ft. -"hen the top of the tree kicks off. It behooves a u n 
to hang on tight -hen it does. 
[t is no” r almost a year since re entered the " r ar, and the 
sit iation does not seem as satisfactory as at the beginning. Of 
course ” r e have not be- n felt as yet, except in the matter of sup¬ 
plies, and it seems to rae that the finals ril: be fought out on the 
West, but the advance in the east makes it all the herder.At this 
season ^e get two mails weekly, and it is all I can do to wait till 
the next cones in. Our two boys are with us. The oldest was placed 
in class 9, being engaged in necessary fa ana -ork, the next is not 
yet of age, and the youngest only 15. 
We did not open the hotel last year, but put in our whole 
time on the farm and the results were so good and the relief from 
w orry so great, that r do not think we will ever go back to it. 
We have had an open winter, i p to January it -'as so warn 
that we had a spirea in bloom, Feb and March we have had snowj^r&e— 
tie&lly all the time, but only a little at a tine, and there is some 
still in sheltered spots, and as I -"rite it is 42 and r ining hard. 
We are all very T,r ell and r hope you can say the sane. Send me a 
line -"hen you have the tine. With kindest regards, I an, 
Very sincerely yours, 
m. 
