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HARDWOOD RECORD 



the defemlnnts and the Koverniiu'iit bad so very llltlc I'vidcnco that the 

 judge took till' case from the Jury and decided In favor of The Mnley, 

 Thompson & Moffett Company. I hope you will correct this error in 

 your next Issue. 



The amount of lumber Involved in this case was something like 30,000 

 feet and the defendants admitted from the very beginning that there was 

 about SOO feet that was up grade, which of course, was entirely due to 

 the difference in Judgment of the inspectors. I wish to state that not 

 only this case was won and taken from the Jury, but a previous case 

 of a similar nature was won some two years ago before a New York 

 Federal Judge, In which case the Judge Instructed the Jury after the evi- 

 dence was in that in the event they found tor the government, he would 

 lie compelled to set the Judgment aside on account of the fact that the 

 evidence did not justify such a decision. 



The Malev, Thompson & Moffett Company, 



E. W. Robblns. 



B G24 — Wants Three-ply Maple and Birch 



ilcTkiincr. X. Y.. Dec. 2. — Editor IIakdwood Record: Will yon kindly 

 send us the names of some manufacturers of built-up veneer, who make 

 .'{-ply maple and birch? We use about 200,000 feet a year. 



This concern has been given tlie names of several companies wliieh 

 turn out this line of goods, and others interested can have the name 

 and address on ap|ilicatinn to tliis office. — Editor. 



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Clubs and Associations 



Northern Loggers Hold Session 



The first jrr'ncral meeting of the logging superintendents of Wis- 

 consin and northern Michigan ever held convened at Green Bay on 

 Saturday, December 6. with an attendance of more than seventy. The 

 meeting was the outcome of a brief discussion of logging methods and 

 camp management which took place at the quarterly meeting of the 

 Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at Eau 

 Claire, Wis.. October 29. In his opening address President Hamar of 

 that association gave a very interesting and instructive resume of 

 logging methods in the North. Speaking of costs of logging, he offered 

 tigures for a set of camps compiled for 1S92-3, showing an average cost 

 of eighteen cents per day per man for food. He stated that it now 

 costs the average lumberman double this amount. Mr. Hamar said that 

 be believed the conditions of those earlier periods are gone forever and 

 that the present day loggers of the North must face new conditions. 



He stated that the two most serious problems are increasing cost of 

 labor and increasing cost of feeding men. He stated that increase in cost 

 of supplies is here to stay, but that cost of labor can be reduced by 

 increasing its efficiency through the employment of cost sheets, daily 

 reports of logs sawed and skidded. He said that every camp with eight 

 or more saw gangs should have a saw boss who will not only increase the 

 work hut save timber. He said that it is common to find fourteen and 

 sixteen foot shaky butt hemlock logs that shpuld have been long butted 

 or cut twenty feet so that when the shake is cut off in the mill there 

 will still remain sound sixteen foot lumber instead of short stuff. He 

 said that hardwood is frequently cut sixteen feet where eighteen foot 

 logs would save two feet of timber and clean the trees up to the crotch. 



Mr. Hamar also suggested that a camp of the same size should have 

 a barn boss whose sole duty it would be to supervise the feeding and 

 general care of the horses. 



Regarding methods of logging Mr. Hamar said that these must be 

 determined entirely by conditions in different territories. He said that 

 while steam skidders are best in some places, skidding by team is un- 

 questionably best in others and that the logger should use his own good 

 Judgment. 



George N. Harder, general manager of the Rib Lake Lumber Company, 

 then outlined the work he is accomplishing through the use of a steam 

 log hauler or traction engine log hauler. He recommends this type of 

 hauling where the distance is five miles or greater, but sa.vs it is not 

 economical for shorter distances. Mr. Harder figures that the engine is 

 good for forty miles a day and that while be bad never worked his 

 machine to full capacity, the maximum haul has been 150,000 feet of 

 logs and fifty cords of bark on a seven-mile haul. The average load was 

 fifteen loads of logs, approximately 80,000 feet, and three loads of bark 

 aggregating thirty cords. 



E. S. Hammond, one of the oldest of the northern loggers, now 

 located at Rice Lake, Wis., although unable to attend, sent in a mighty 

 interesting paper on the management of woods help. Because of lack of 

 space this paper will not be published until the next issue of Hakdwood 

 Record. The gist of it. however, would indicate that Mr. Hammond 

 believes that the best way to handle woods employes is to treat them as 

 squarely as possible as long as they will allow such treatment and when 

 they refuse to be governed fairly to give them some of their own medicine. 

 the dose being at least twice as large as that administered by the men 

 themselves. 



I.aiiiunt Rowlands d the ('. .\. (;ooilycar Lumber Company stated that 

 his company kept an accurate inventory of all foodstuffs used in the 

 camp at Blue Bill, Mich,, and submitted a record of the material consumed 

 during one year by an average of luO men. The record showed that the 

 cost per man per day was $.3611. He said that adding to this the 

 wages of cooks and assistants and dlstriliutlng the entire cost of feed 

 ing men over the days of productive labor made the cost for board for 

 each active day about sixty-five cents per man. 



W. E. Hallenbeck of the Girard Lumber Company of Dunbar, Wis., 

 read a paper on the steam ground skidder. Mr. Hallenbeck expressed 

 the belief that steam skidders are only In their infancy. He spoke 

 very enthusiastically of steam skidding as compared to skidding by 

 horses. He said that his experience was that with a railroad laid out 

 1.200 feet apart to accommodate horse skidding an enormous amount 

 of work was necessary to lay the tracks. He said that the grading of 

 such branches together with the cutting and clearing of right of way. 

 Including laying of steel, surfacing, etc., cost about .fl,500 a mile in the 

 average northern country. This does not take into account ties, steel, 

 spikes, bolts, etc. He figured that this mile track with a skidding 

 width of 1,200 feet for a team gang gives 145 or 150 acres containing 

 on an average in the North approximately 1,500.000 feet of logs, from 

 which it will be seen that the railroad cost $1.00 per thousand. With 

 the skidder Mr. Hallenbeck figured that twice the ground would be 

 covered with a less cost for labor. 



Air. Hallenbeck closed his talk with a description of work done in 

 railroad building with a ditch digger for railroad cuts and grading. He 

 said that a crew of five men and one team built a mile of grade in heavy 

 soil with a great many boulders, average cuts, figuring a fourteen-foot 

 crown to allow a steam skidder to go through cuts, for $425.00, including 

 stump pulling. 



Following Mr. Hallenbeck, J. W. Gleason of the Goodman Lumber 

 Company of Goodman. Wis., came to the defense of the horse with a 

 paper that gave many excellent hints as to the proper care of stock In the 

 woods. This paper also will be carried in a later issue because of lack 

 of room in this. Mr. Gleason added that each team of horses in bis 

 operations logs 1,000.000 feet of lumber yearly for his company. 



George H. Holt of Chicago was unable to attend the meeting, but sent 

 a paper that gave some mighty interesting and valuable suggestions. 

 Mr. Holt said that the idea of collective buying of fire insurance has 

 already been launched. He then said the same idea might be utilized 

 in the purchase of materials for camps. He said that this method would 

 not only greatly reduce the cost of logging operations, but would stand- 

 ardize materials and processes and statistical records. He said that 

 wages mean nothing as a test of or guide to efficiency apart from the 

 record of the product resulting from such wages. He said that the 

 total cost of logging in a camp is of little value unless it is known 

 whether there has been efficiency in one department and waste and 

 inefBciency in another. He said that because practically all of the 

 problems facing the loggers in the North are similar, the opportunity for 

 collective service and standardization is apparent. 



Mr. Holt then said that the logging camp is a deplorable example of 

 waste of material and labor coupled with the crippling of the energy 

 which it is designed to protect and maintain. He said that while 

 loggers have used a certain degree of intelligence in feeding their 

 animals, they had conducted a debauch for their men. He said that 

 standardization would cover the duties of camp cooks, rations for various 

 meals and days of the week, accounts, forms used in organizing and con- 

 ducting logging operations, purchase of supplies, equipment and apparatus, 

 keeping track of condition, location and quantities of supplies, and 

 checking waste. The last two effects which such an association of log- 

 ging interests would have would be the maintenance of a standard of 

 quality and supplies and a means of easily getting rid of second-hand 

 equipment. 



H. J. Beckerle. in charge of the Wisconsin Free Employment Office, 

 then described that organization, after which a general discussion fol- 

 lowed as to labor supply which is now more abundant than last summer. 

 Woods wages would seem to range from $26.00 to $35.00 per month with 

 board and means whereby camps may be made more sanitary and at- 

 tractive. The general discussion took concrete form in motions by 

 Lamont Rowlands and R. B. Goodman for the appointment of two 

 committees to report at the annual meeting of the association 

 to be held the later part of January. One committee was created for 

 the welfare work and the other for standardization. The former com- 

 mittee will go into the best means of improving camp conditions while 

 the other will work for a uniform system of reports covering all systems 

 of logging operations. 



After suitable resolutions, the meeting adjuurned. 



An Instructive Meeting 



The last of a series of welfare conferences to be held under the auspices 

 of the welfare committee of the Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association 

 was held at the Marion hotel in Little Rock on December 9. The con- 

 ference was arranged for a general get-together meeting, but special 

 attention was given to the discussions of such subjects as "Community 

 Betterment," "Industrial Hygiene" and other discussions looking toward 

 the general welfare and greater efficiency of labor at the lumber mills, as 

 a result of improving the working, living and leisure conditions of the 

 employes. 



