190 Forestry Quarterly. 



Loading on Cars. The loading is done with the aid of three 

 endless chain conveyors. A six or seven horsepower gas engine 

 furnishes the power for one, while the other two are run by a 

 15-horsepower upright boiler and engine. Each conveyor is com- 

 posed of two endless chains about 50 feet long fastened together 

 3 feet apart with pieces of 4-inch strap iron. 



The following crew, not including men along the canal and 

 on the pond, is used for each conveyor: 



Four men in car, one engineer or leverman, 1-2 tie inspectors, 

 four men in water at foot of conveyor. 



In a lo-hour day 150 men can load 40 cars. As gondolas 

 are used they hold about 300 firsts or, as they are more com- 

 monly loaded. 425 firsts and seconds. Each car contains an 

 average of 190 firsts and 235 seconds. About thirty days are 

 required to load the ties working continually, but a longer time 

 is required as the ties arrive at the boom irregularly. About 7 

 tons of coal and 200 gallons of fuel oil are required to run the 

 engines. The value of the loading equipment is so small that 

 the charge per tie is almost negligible. 



The loading charges may be summarized as follows : 



Labor : Per Tie 



150 men, at $2.00, loading 17,000 ties, $0,018 



Fuel and Oil : 



7 tons coal, at $6.00, $42.00 



200 gals, fuel oil, at $0.15 30.00 



$72.00 



Oil, 10 gals., at $0.40, 400 



Total, $76.00 



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Total Loading Charges, $0,019 



It is believed that loss of time and shortage of cars increase 

 this cost to $0.02 per tie. 



Supervision. The woods administrative force consists of one 

 superintendent, one bookkeeper, and one tie inspector, whose sal- 

 aries aggregate about $5,000.00. Since a part of their duties is 

 to administer the grazing of 1,200 cattle and horses and 4,000 

 sheep and goats on the company's holdings, as well as to super- 

 vise the commissaries operated by the company, all of this sum 

 should not be charged against the company's tie operations. A 



