The boss of the Hsiehho mill, Chiou Hsien-tsung, remembers that in the 1950s and 60s each forest compartment would be given an area of about 200 hectares and a hundred workers. Around 10,000 cubic meters of forest would be cut in a year.
玉里協和鋸木廠老闆邱顯宗還記得，民國四十到五十年代，一個林班約兩百多甲林地，上百個工人，一年伐掉一萬立方公尺的材積。