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LUMBER INDUSTRY, THE Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “The lumber industry. The production and manufacture of timber for building purposes, telegraph poles, timber for ship building, railroad ties, pulp wood, paving blocks, wood for furniture manufacture, and cabinet work form one of the most extensive and important industries in the world.” “The lumber industry consists of three branches -- 1. The logging industry which includes: (a) felling of timber (b) cutting into lengths (c) transportation to mill; 2. The sawmill industry; 3. The planing mill industry.” Men with two-man saw fell a large tree. “After the tree is felled the ‘bucker’ cuts it into desired lengths and trims off the branches.” Man cuts tree trunk into lengths. “The modern lumber camp is as completely organized as the modern factory. ‘Power logging’ having replaced the picturesque many yoked ox teams of earlier days while railroad hauling is fast taking the place of ‘driving.’ Snaking out logs by cable and donkey engine.” “Marking logs.” Man cuts ‘W’ into logs with an ax. “The logging locomotive is built on three four wheel center bearing swiveled trucks thereby securing the shortest possible rigid wheel base and longest possible flexible wheel base. The drive is through bevel gearing attached to the right hand wheels of each truck.” Logging locomotive and flatcars loaded with logs. “The log haul delivers the log from the boom to the mill. This particular log contained 5000 feet of lumber. Quantum sufficient for ‘a little gray home in the West.’” Log travels up log haul from boom into mill, saws cut log. “A general view of the loading yard of a big lumber company.” “The refuse burner.” “According to the last census there were 33,090 sawmills and logging plants in operation in the United States, representing a capacity of $863,870,850, employing 547,148 wage earners, consuming raw material valued at $265,559,895, turning out a product valued at $753,388,368. ‘Go West Young Man, Go West.’” Lumber yard with cranes and mechanical lifts. “The greatest demand for lumber today is in the building of American bottoms to win the war and the crying need of those employed in the building of ships is speed and then more speed. America must launch 1,000,000 tons of standardized shipping a month to defeat the submarine.” Ship yard with workers on ships under construction - ship is launched. “The sooner our ship building program becomes a fact the sooner we will reduce the terrific casualties in the battlefields of France. It is better for an awakened America to build ships and prevent this destruction of life and limb than to be forced to construct as a monument to our procrastination --” Cemetery. [1917]
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