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on commercial principles, and, perhaps, organizing a corps of loggers, 

 SO as to be able to inaugurate large enough operations, advancing the 

 funds upon an exact cruise of the communal property as basis for 

 a mortgage. But the author realizes the difficulty of his plan in 

 view of the stubborn attitude of the population towards any innova- 

 tion. 



Valeiirs inemployees. Journal forestier Suisse, March, April, 1917, pp. 41-46. 



UTILIZATION, MARKET, AND TECHNOLOGY 



Although motor trucks and tractors have 



Logging zvith been used in logging operations on the Pacific 



Motors Coast, to a limited extent in the past, such use 



received a great impetus last year, due to the 



high price of steel and railroad equipment. 



The motor truck finds its chief field with the small loggers; it is 

 also a possibility for large loggers in cutting small isolated areas. 



One logger reports that on a 7.8-mile haul his motor truck averaged 

 six trips daily, hauling from 3,000 to 5,000 feet log scales per trip. 



A logger on the North Pacific Coast, using a 10-ton Knox logging 

 tractor with a , trailer, states that the machine makes from four to 

 five round trips daily for distances from 3 to 7 miles, and hauls from 

 15,000 to 40,000 feet of logs daily, depending on the length of haul and 

 the condition of road. 



On a 7-mile haul another logger makes four round trips daily, 

 averaging 4,000 feet per trip. 



A firm in Washington uses two tractors for hauling logs to the saw- 

 mill, a distance of 3 miles, during the day time, and employs one 

 tractor at night to haul lumber to the railroad, 6 miles distant. 



From the above performances, it would appear that the logging 

 tractor is rapidly gaining a place in the lumber industry. It is certain 

 to prove a boon to the small logger. 



American Lumberman, April 7, 1917, p. 66. 



In an unsigned article the author analyzes the 



. Logging Costs cost of producing spruce lumber in New Bruns- 



Advance wick and finds that spruce logs at the mill pond 



have cost $13.35 and the mill product $19.65, 



being about $2 dearer than in 1916. Wages were running from $35 



to $40 per month as against $28 to $32 in the previous year, and 



