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pending - on the distance and roads. One car holds from six to 

 seven cords, depending upon the care of the packers. With the 

 bark beside the railroad, seven men load four cars per day. The 

 Otter Creek Boom and Lumber Company pays the contractor $4 

 per cord for bark on the cars. 



$16.20 for 25 cords .65 



Total $3.27 



— to which must be added a small share of the expense of the 

 office, etc. 



Pulpwood. — Spruce pulpwood sticks are cut down to 4 inches 

 diameter at the small end, 8 feet and 12 feet long. No figures were 

 obtained for itemized costs here. The contractor said it cost about 

 $3 per cord (128 cubic feet) to get it out and load it on the cars. 

 Only a little pulpwood was got out at this camp. 



Wages, Board, etc. 



Board and lodging is furnished free to all the men. The scale 

 of wages for the different jobs, and the average number of 

 men at each is seen from the following table. Those marked (x) 

 receive straight time, the rest losing bad weather days. 



No. of Men. Per Day. 



1 Cook (x) $3-00 



1 Blacksmith (x) 2.50 



1 Carpenter 2.50 



1 Filer (x) 2.00 



6 Sawyers 2.00 



3 Choppers (Undercutters) 2.00 

 8 Teamsters (x) 2.00 



4 Grab-drivers 2.00 



