Still they think that we cannot fill the contract.

They think that after the first shipment or so, then we will have to quit." "They may be right, Ba'tiste.

It would require nearly two thousand men to keep that mill supplied with logs, once we get into production, outside of the regular mill force, under conditions such as they are now.

It would be ruinous.

We've got to find some other way, Ba'tiste, of getting our product to the mill.