354 Forestry Quarterly 



The crew of the sawmill was as follows: 1 log roller on the 

 log deck; 1 sawyer; 1 marker on the platform; 1 slab man; 

 2 pilers in the dump ; 1 engineer and fireman ; total, 7 men. 



The output of the mill averaged 6400 board feet per day, 

 including the days when it was shut down on account of rain or 

 for other reasons. On the days the mill actually ran, the cut was 

 about 8 M feet and the largest day's run totaled about 14 M feet. 

 The sawing was done by contract, the millman receiving the 

 logs from the skidding crew and delivering the lumber and ties 

 to the men in the dump for $3.50 per M feet for lumber and 

 $1.90 per M feet for ties. Altogether the mill cut totaled about 

 1,225,000 board feet, using five set-ups for the work. Each 

 set-up was located so that as large an area of woodland as possible 

 could be logged to it. The slope of the ground and the position 

 of roads determined the exact position, after the stand of timber 

 to be cut had been taken into account. 



The lumber was hauled with horses, and, except for a couple 

 of weeks in early March, entirely on wagons. The roads to 

 Bernardsville were practically all down hill and good hard 

 macadam, and a team was able to haul from 1500 to 1800 feet 

 per load, or two cords of 4-foot wood. The distances varied 

 from one and one-fourth to two and one-half miles and the 

 teams were able to haul daily three loads of 1,000 feet each. Gen- 

 erally, they preferred to make two trips with 1500 feet. 



The hauling crew consisted of two teamsters, using their own 

 horses, wagons, chains, axes, pickaroons and canthooks. They 

 were paid at the rate of 60 cents per hour per team. On rush 

 work, or work requiring great strength in loading the freight 

 cars, an extra man was put on to help. Ordinarilly, however, 

 the teamsters did their own loading at the station, under 

 the supervision of the woods foreman, who had charge of the 

 entire operation and also took care of the shipping. The crew 

 worked ten hours per day when weather permitted. During the 

 heavy storm of early March, wagons were useless and log-boats 

 were fitted with poles and used as hauling sleds. Four horses 

 were used to each sled and the load was also increased to about 

 2 M feet, so that the cost of hauling did not vary. This cost in 

 terms of M feet hauled averaged about $2.00. 



The available markets were of two classes: 1, local sales to 

 carpenters, farmers, builders and townspeople ; 2, sales to con- 



