American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1918-07-23
ARMY TIMBER WORKER
HOME ON FURLOUGH
Private Lee Hall Tells OF Work in the
Woods in Getting Out Material in the
Ships OF the Air and Water.

Lee Hall a member Of the national
army, is visiting at the home Of his
brother John Hall, on Cold creek. hav-
ing obtained a Today furlough. He
went to Camp Lewis as a selective
draft man last October and until Just
before Christmas served in an infan-
try battalion. He was then ordered
to Fort LawtOn, near Seattle, and after
brief stay there was ordered to Still
water, Washington to join one of the
many companies of national army men
engaged in getting out timber for air.
planes and ships Private Hall cal
led at the Press office the other day
and told how thoroughly he appreciates
the semi-weekly visits of the paper,
stating that it is as good as two let
/ ters from the home folks
/ Private Hall gave some interesting
details of what the men in the big
timber are doing in the way of help
/ ing the government get its needed sup
ply of timber for the ships of the air
and of the water. For nine years
prior to his enlistment in the army
he worked in the big timber and as it
is the policy of the commanders of the
national army to use the men ac-
cording TO their calling in civil life in
order to get maximum service il was
only natural that he was chosen to
join one of the companies operating
as lOggers and timbermen. These
logging companies of the national
army number $50 men each and some
times the entire company is quartered
in one camp and sometimes they are
divided into two or more camps. Pri-
vate Halls present station is Camp
No g. Saltwater. Washington, and he
is one of lis men quartered there
The balance of his company is in
Camp No. ,. His camp is equipped
with electric lights and steam heat
and when the government inspectors
recently inspected Camps and they
pronounced them the neatest and most
sanitary camps on the coast. The
, company commanders of these camps
are very strict in the observance OF
. sanitary regulations as established by
the army and any soldier who in the
, slightest degree violates these rules is
2 sure of an immediate reprimand, and
as a result of this the health of the
= men in the big timber is excellent
Private Hall states that the food pro-
vided for the men is OF the very best
, and that they get plenty of it. That
Il the men in Camp No. 3 are accom-
plishing great work is shown by the
II fact that 115 men in one week got out
> 800 900 feet of timber. No waste OF
timber is permitted under government
control and all of the stuff produced
y is manufactured into sizes which
n serve a useful purpose. The mer
- work i'm eight-hour shifts and the
wages paid range from S4 to $3.50 4
10 day based on the civilian scale The
- men have three pay days each month
n receiving their lOggers' money abou
the fifth of each month. $50 govern
~ ment money (soldiers' pay) about th'
, sixteenth. and their ration mOnel
about the twentieth of the month. Th'
government withhOlds s14O for eacl
day the men work and this is paid a
- the end of the month. The ratiOl
1 money is 40 cents per day, and this j
paid the men in a lump sum on IN
~ twentieth day each month. The mel
buy their overalls and cork shoes, bu
the rest of their wearing apparel
supplied by the government The
pay to whatever company is boardin
them the sum of S1.05 per day.
The men in Camp No. 3 a month ag
Is were examined and equipped for SCI
vice overseas and have petitiOned thei
H. captain to designate them for servic
on the other side, but he informe
them that at present they we're giN
ing the government maximum serviC
in the big timber and that they wOul
get across the Atlantic soon enOug
=. II takes time TO train a crew for tea
III work in the timber and the commal
rs ders of the crews are not overly vii
IN ing TO part with them. 1t speaks we
for the men that they are eager TO gi'
up the far larger pay they are gettiI
now for the lesser amount paid TO Il
lighting men of the line over
France these days.