2(58 Forestry Quarterly. 



Miscellaneous. 



Each man's name, the number of clays worked, the rate per 

 diem, and the supplies which he purchases, all time checks issued, 

 the number, the amount, to whom and when due, are kept by the 

 contractor's clerk ; also the number of logs loaded, the number of 

 cars and the scale of each, the number of cars of bark and of pulp- 

 wood and the costs of these various operations. The report of 

 each day's output in board feet, bark and pulpwood is sent in the 

 following day to the company's office at Hambleton. 



The regular pay day is the Saturday following the fifteenth of 

 each month. On this date, upon request, time checks are issued, 

 and are payable for work done up to and including the last day of 

 the preceding month. If one wishes his money for work done 

 since that time, he is given a check which is not due until the pay 

 day the middle of the following month, but which he may have 

 cashed at any time before then at 5% discount. These checks are 

 payable at the company's office in Hambleton. 



A collection at the rate of 75 cents per month is made from all 

 men who work in any of the company's camps for four days or 

 longer. Fifty cents of this goes to pay the company's doctor, and, 

 in case of injury where hospital service is not necessary, to furnish 

 all medicine, board and lodging until recovery. If the patient has 

 to go to the hospital, he is sent to the best one in Elkins, West Vir- 

 ginia, and 25 cents of the above goes to the company toward a 

 fund for the payment of these hospital dues, which run from $10 

 to $15 per week. The other 25 cents is set aside as a reserve fund 

 to pay the expenses of any one hurt who has not worked as long 

 as four days for the company. 



The payment of this medical fee is not required of the men. 

 But if they do not pay it and are injured, they have to pay the 

 company $10 if an engine has to be sent to the woods for them, 

 besides the $10 to $15 per week while in hospital. 



Every Wednesday and Saturday the company delivers pro- 

 visions to the camp. Mail is also brought at these times from the 

 postoffice at Hambleton, and any supplies which may be ordered. 

 The company runs a mercantile store at Hambleton, the various 

 jobbers ordering clothing, tobacco, etc., from there and selling at 

 cost to the men. The merchandise account being then deducted 

 from their wasfes. 



