nine
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A continual advance would progress toward the Lake , the drive crews passing and repassing each other like pigeons in the sown fields . Each of these sections would be in charge of a foreman , whose responsibility ceased with the delivery of the logs to the men next below . A walking boss would trudge continually the river trail , or ride the logs down stream , holding the correlation of these many units . Orde himself would drive up and down the river , overseeing the whole plan of campaign , throwing the camps forward , concentrating his forces here , spreading them elsewhere , keeping accurately in mind the entire situation so that he could say with full confidence : `` Open Dam Number One for three hours at nine o'clock ; Dam Number Two for two hours and a half at ten thirty , '' and so on down the line ; sure that the flood waters thus released would arrive at the right moment , would supplement each other , and would so space themselves as to accomplish the most work with the least waste . In that one point more than in any other showed the expert . The water was his ammunition , a definite and limited quantity of it . To `` get the logs out with the water '' was the last word of praise to be said for the river driver .