Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-10
MAGIC BRIDGE TO FRANCE
HEWN FROM j. S. FORESTS
Nearly 4OO,OOO,OOO Feet OF Yellow
Pine Lumber Cut and Turned
Into Ships.
iOSTLY FIR USED ON PACIFIC
Deliveries Are Steadily Increasing
Army Of Workers Employed I'm De.
livering Timber to Shfpyards
Many Camps in Operation.
sIosTLY FIR USED ON PACIFIC

WASHINGTON. November o.-Nearly
40o.00o.o00 feet Of yellow pine lumber
and water to sh'pyards on the Atlantic
coast and Gulf coast for the con-
struction Of wood vessels under the
direction Of the United States Shipping
Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
with this amount of lumber We could
span the Atlantic to the French coast
1900 miles or morc-with bridge
floor twenty-five feet wide and one inch
thick and have about 100000 feet of
yellow pine to spare. This is only half
the story, as IL does not include lumber
shipped to Pacific Coast shipyards.
These figures are contained in a re-
port filed by the lumber department,
supply division. Emergency Fleet Cor
poration. in which the department gave
he total lumber requirements for o75
wood ships then in course of construc-
ton on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts as
approximately 475.ooo.ooo feet. OF which
loo,oo0,ooO feet. az stated above. have
already been cut and delivered.
And these, including Pacific Coast
shipments TO shipyards on that coast
have been made in little more than
4 year.
The ngures given apply to yellow
pine vessels built and building on the
those hna o ON tho Pae aHa &c
which are built Of fir. II these are
included the bridge floor from the At
Iantic- to the French coast gould be
feet Of lumber used BY the Shipping
Roard for the construction OF tugs and
barges added the bridge floor could
he provided with sides three and half
feet high.
The necessity for the bridging of
the Atlantic" was dwelt on by Chair.
States at s sSippine Board in March arc is1s
Since that time the shinvards under
the direction Of the board have made
world history in the c ,n an,;.nn Of Of
wood and steel ships. Deliveries are
Increasing from month to month. The
ship tonnage made avnilahie ny the
lies. made possible the landing in
france or our superb army and its nee
essary material and supplies.
In IN address delivered before the Ma
,'onal Marine League OF the United
Stat"s in N~w York on March &c. 1918.
Chairman Hurley said:
'If by the exercise of magic bridge
could be thrown across the Atlantic
over which our armies. their artillery
and supply trains could move rapidly
and unhampered to the battle lines
Berlin. Vienna. Rome. Paris: London or
Wa shington have anv doubt but that the
world would he made safe for dcmoc-
sacv before the year goes ,ss o s,ns We We
hove the supplies. But without means
nf getting them to the front we might
as we'll be without them. And unless
we get our men to the battle line we
viii not win this war.
$50 II all comes hack to ocean trans
rortation-to the vital need Of ships.
Eail there and we fail utterly"
To obtain this vast quantity OF lum-
her and maintain it's steady flow from
the forests. to the shtDwavs. verlt-
able army Of workers is engaged.
In the Northwest the lumber region
runs from Northern California almost
t. Alaska. From the coast IT eXtendS
INLAND to the Sierra Nevada range:
Hundreds Of lumber camps some OF
Their, containing y thousand men. are
opcrating in this territory.