When Paul Bunyan took up efficiency engineering he went at the the job with all his customary thoroughness.  He did not fool around clocking the crew with a stop watch, counting motions and deducting the ones used for borrowing chews, going for drinks, dodging the boss and preparing for quitting time.  He decided to cut out labor altogether.

“What’s the use,” said Paul, “of all this sawing, swamping, skidding, decking, grading and icing roads, loading, hauling and landing?  The object of the game is to get the trees to the landing, ain’t it?  Well, why not do it and get it off your mind?”

So he hitched Babe to a section of land and snaked in the whole 640 acres at one drag.  At the landing the trees were cut off just like shearing a sheep and the denuded section hauled back to its original place.  This simplified matters and made the work a lot easier.  Six trips a day, six days a week just cleaned up a township for section 37 was never hauled back to the woods on Saturday night but was left on the landing to wash away in the early spring when the drive went out,

Documentary evidence of the truth of this is offered by the United States government surveys.  Look at any map that shows the land subdivisions and you will never find a township with more than thirty-six sections.

The foregoing statement, previously published, has caused some controversy.  Mr. T. S. Sowell of Miami, Florida wrote to us citing the townships in his State that have sections numbered 37 to 40.  He said that the government survey had been complicated by the old Spanish land grants.  We put the matter up to Paul Bunyan and from his camp near Westwood came this reply: 

Red River Advertising Department.

Dear Sir:  Yes sir, I remember those sections and a lot of bother they made me too.  One winter when I was starting the White Pine business and snaking sections down to the Atlantic Ocean, a man from Florida came along and ordered a bunch of sections delivered down to his place.  He wanted to see if he could grow the same kind of White Pine down there.  I yarded out a nice bunch of sections and next summer when my drive was in and I wasn’t busy I took a crew of Canada Boys and Mainites and poled them down the coast.  When I come to collect they said this man was gone looking for a Fountain of Youth or some fool thing.

I don’t know what luck he had with his White Pine ranch.  I never seen them again.  I had a lot of other things to tend to and clean forgot it till you sent me Mr. Sowell’s letter.  Maybe that man was a Spaniard I don’t know.

Yours respectively,
P. Bunyan.

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From 1917 to 1920 Paul Bunyan was busy toting the supplies and building camps for a bunch of husky young fellow-Americans who bad a contract on the other side of the Atlantic, showing a certain prominent European (who is now logging in Holland) how they log in the United States.