Cost of Mountain Logging. 



265 



6 Canthook men 



1 Shooter (Dynamiter) 



4 Road men (Roadsters) 



1 Buck Swamper 



6 Knot Bumpers (Limbers) 

 10 Swampers 



2 Cookees (x) 



1 Chore boy (x) 



1 Scaler and Clerk at $60 per month 



1 Foreman. 



2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 i-75 

 .50—1.75 

 1.50 

 1.50 



58 



In calculating the wages per month for those on a per diem 

 wage, it must be remembered that taken throughout the year, the 

 excessive precipitation of the region (it being second only to the 

 Puget Sound region) reduces the work days to about twenty per 

 month. Those paid by the month are paid for a month of thirty 

 days. With these facts in mind, it will be found that the monthly 

 wage totals $2,505, as shown below. 



Wages per Month. 



57 



Total Monthly Wage 



$2505 



Board. — The board furnished the men is remarkable. The con- 

 tractor very truly says that it costs but little more to feed well than 

 to feed poorly, and that much better results are obtained by giving 

 the men good, clean, wholesome food. The following list of sup- 

 plies for one week was taken at random from several others, and 

 is fairly representative of the kinds and amounts of supplies pur- 



