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Show tinue to haul their product bj truck, the energy and resourcefulness resourceful-ness of these loggers led them to construct new roads back from the primary and secondary highways where no roads existed before to reach other stands of timber. They built dirt roads' for summer use and all-weather roads for use throughout the year. They found the construction cost ofi one of these roads to be one-tenth the expense of a railroad spur. In this way, hundreds of thousands of feet of standing timber has been milled that might never . have been logged under the old ' system with the limitations of the logging equipment available ten years ago. So called isolated timber tim-ber tracts that were left behind in logging operations of the past because they could not be easily and economically reached are the locatons of some of; the most pro-ftable pro-ftable operatons of the truck logger log-ger of today. Soon after Congress passed legislation le-gislation in 1916 authorizing federal fed-eral aid for highways, there arose a great demand throughout the rural sections of our country for the earmarking o specific sums of all funds appropriated for highways high-ways for the construction and maintenance of secondary, or feeder-type roads that are absolutely abso-lutely necessary to the farmer in getting his produce to market. As a result, the expression "farm to market road" has come to be as much a part of the average rur-alite's rur-alite's vocabulary as "courthouse square".' Incidentally, many of the roads built for logging have become be-come valuable links in the present farm-to-market syste mand provide pro-vide the farmers who settled the cleared tracts in the wake of the loggers with the necessary access to the main highways. With logging operatons penetrating pene-trating farther back into the denser den-ser and hitherto Inaccessible stands of timber, with sawmills constantly constant-ly demanding "more logs", with loggers concentrating on the delivery de-livery of cheap logs to these mills by the use of steadily growing fleets ot trucks to save the unnecessary un-necessary expense of spur railroad track construction, I believe the next few years will witness a forceful demand for a system of "forest to mill" roads. A direct an dinteresting result of this pro-cedule pro-cedule will be the saving enjoyed by the average businessman-con- sumer who builds his house of wood, furnishes it with wooden furniture, sits all day on a wooden wood-en swivel chair end labors over a wooden desk to pay for it and a thousand other articles the manufacture of wheh depends on wood. k- !f" y In iiaiak nil! -i irrif " Down The Road tf CHARLES M. UPHAM En giattr-Dirtctmr Rmnriran Road BnfldW A&3. yihingtoa, IX C "Logs," the veteran timberman will tell you, "are where you find them," But, after you find them, there's still the problem of getting he logs out of the Woods to the mill. The question of transportation, transporta-tion, then, is one of major importance im-portance to profitable logging operations. Cheap logs are those that can be swiftly and economically economi-cally brought out of the woods to the mill. Cheap logs are, naturally, natural-ly, those most desired by the logger log-ger and many a veteran operator has become convinced that rolling them out on pneumatic tires has dragging them out by antiquated methods beat a mile. Pneumatic' tires suggest a truck, a truck must travel a road and there you have 1 my story. Ten years ago roads first began playing a prominent part in the American logging industrys excit-j ing drama. Slowly but, surely, during dur-ing the past decade, loggers everywhere every-where have realized the tremendous tremen-dous savings that can be obtained by transportating logs by truck instead of by rail. The depression is largely responsible for this new logging method. The discovery that ithe railroad is not the only solution to the transportation problem pro-blem of the man with timber was made by men thrown out of work by the slump in the lumber market. mar-ket. These men had an intense desire 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 it by truck to small mills where it could be sold at a nice profit. Soon, however, the supply of lumber adjacent to the highway was exhausted. To be able to con- |