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Show I I j Down ; ... i-'l The Road y tf CHABLBS H. UPHAM 3.' Mnpnr-Direcr Aasrfcan Road BmlrW Asa. A 1 exhausted. To be oie to continue to haul their product by truck, the energy and resourcefulnes of these loggers red themi to construct new roads back from the primary and 'secondary highways where no other ot-her roads existed before to reach other stands of timber. They built' dirt roads for summer use and all i weather roads for use throughout the year. They found construction j costs of one of these roads to be ; one-tenth the expense of a railroad I spur. In this way. hundreds of thousands of feet of standing tim-. ber has been milled that might have never been logged under the! old system with the limitations of j the logging equipment available ten years ago. So called isolated timber tracts that were left behind be-hind in loging operations of the past because they could not easily and economicaly oe reached are the locations of some of the most GOOD ROADS RERUCE LOGGING COSTS "Logs," the veteran timberman will tell you, "are where you find them!" 5 But, after you find them, there s still the problem of getting the ' logs out of the woods to the mill. The question of transportation, then, is one of major importance to profitable logging operations. Cheap logs are those that can be swiftly and economically brought out of the woods to the mill. The cheap logs are, naturally, those most desired by the logger and many a veteran operator has become be-come convinced that rolling them out on pneumatic tires has dragging drag-ging them out by antiquated meth- - ods beat a mile. Pneumatic tires suggest a truck, a truck must travel tra-vel a road and there you have my ; story. i i with logging operations penetrating pene-trating farther back into the denser dens-er and hitherto inaccessible stands of timber, with sawmills constantly constant-ly demanding "more logs," with loggers concentrating on the de-ivery de-ivery of "cheap logs" to these mills by the use of steadily growing grow-ing fleets of trucks to save the unnecessary expense of spur railroad rail-road track construction, I believe j the next few years will witness a forceful demand for a system of "forest-to-miir roads. A direct and interesting result of this procedure will be the saving en-j en-j joyed by the average businessman-I businessman-I consumer who buhds his houes of j wood, furnishes it with wooden I furniture, sits all day on a wooden I swivel chair and labors over a wooden desk to pay for it and a I thousand other articles the manufacture manu-facture of which depends on wood. profitable operations oi me u u logger of today. Soon after Congress passed legislation leg-islation in 1916 authorizing federal aid for highways, there arose a great demand throughout the rural rur-al sections of our country for the earmarking of specific sums of all funds appropriated fan highways for the construction and maintenance mainten-ance of secondary, or feeder type roads that are absolutely necessary to the farmer in getting his produce prod-uce to market. As a result the expression "farm to market road," has come to be as much a part of the average ru-ralite's ru-ralite's vocabulary as "courthouse square." Incidentally, many of the roads built for logging have -become valuable links in the present farm to market system and provide provi-de the farmers who settled the clear tracts in the wake of the loggers with the uecessary access to the main highways. Ten years, ago roads first Degan : playing a prominent part in the American logging industry's exciting excit-ing drama. Slowly but suerly, dur- ing the past decade, loggers every-' every-' where have realized the tremend-, tremend-, iiug savings that can be obtained by transporting logs by truck in-l in-l stead of by rail. The depression is ' largely responsible for this new logging method. The discovery that the railroad is not the only solu-' solu-' Hon to the transportation problem of the man with timber was made ' py men thrown out of work by the slump in the lumber market. ? These men had an intense desire des-ire to remain self-sustaining and it was not long before they learned that they could buy small tracts of timber near good roads and haul j it by truck to small mills where iit could be sold at a nice profit. Soon, however, the supply of lum-ber lum-ber adjacent to the highway was |