334 



Forestry Quarterly. 



Cost of Yelloiv Pine Lumber. 



Cutting, 



Skidding, 



Loading, 



R. R. Building, 



Hauling, 



R.epairing Equipment, 



Railroad upkeep, 



Sawing, 



Sorting, 



Dipping, 



Yarding, 



American Lumberman. 



•51 



.68 



• 23 

 .18 

 .29 

 •49 

 .49 

 .18 



•59 



• 14 



10.67 

 5-00 



$15.67 



A steam skidder with an overhead cable has 

 Logging been used in the Northwest about a year, 



Cable and has seemed to give satisfaction. Two 



in the main cables were used so that while a crew 



Northwest. was logging with one of them, another crew 



could be changing the other. Changing the 

 carriage from one cable to the other required about 45 minutes. 

 A strip 100 feet wide was worked from each cable and an area of 

 about 800 feet radius was cleared at each setting. A daily aver- 

 age of 40,000 feet of logs was taken out by a full crew of 15 men 

 at a cost of about $48.00 per day. A detail list of the cable used 

 shows about 10,000 feet in use, most of which lasts about a year. 

 The chief disadvantage was the aversion the men feel to working 

 around a new type of machine. 



American Lumberman. February 18, 191 1. P. 581. 



Many lumbermen do not have a very ade- 

 quate idea of just what it costs to feed men 

 in their camps. A lower peninsula Michi- 

 gan operator says it costs him 34^ cents per 

 day per man; while a West Virginia com- 

 pany shows in detail as follows that it costs him 65.62 cents. (See 

 also Vol. VII, p. 267.) 



Feeding Men 



in 



Logging Camps. 



