422 forestry Quarterly. 



Loading on Cars. 



The loading is done with the aid of three endless chain con- 

 veyors. 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 composed 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 reported 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, 4.00 



Total, $76.00 o.ooi 



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 salaries aggre- 



