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FHS5701th

Image ID:  FHS5701
Image Date:  7/24/1940
Image Title:  [Log hauling with tractor and wagons.]
Image Caption:  Caterpillar Diesel Tractor and 2 home-made wagons hauling logs to barge on Yellow River. Working 8 hours a day on about 13 cents worth of fuel per hour. 3300 ft. average load, 3/4 mile haul. W.A. Belcher Lumber Company, Birmingham, Alabama.
Photographer:  [unknown]
Use Restrictions:  Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information:  Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.