Periodical Literature. loi 



Power Plant. 



Intake and dam $50.00 



Pipe line, 18 inch wood stave (continuous), laid, 640.00 



Water wheel, installed (200 h. p. capacity), 300.00 



Power house, shed construction, 150.00 



Electric generator and station instruments (D. C), 950- 00 



Wiring (say 14 mile), 400.00 



Total cost, ready to operate, .$2,490.00 



Electric donkey, complete, with 50 h. p. motor geared 8 to i, with 

 same drums and equal to 9 x 10 inch steam outfit and guaran- 

 teed to do the same class of work, 950.00 



Electric falling and bucking saw, takes one man to run it; will 



do the work of 5 men, 150.00 



Complete equipment up to roadcr point in logging operation, $3,590.00 



To this amount should be added for 65 h. p. "roader" donkey, . . 1,150.00 



Extra line construction for same, 250.00 



Making the total outlay for a complete electric outfit to skid logs, 

 3,000 feet, $4,990.00 



To operate this outfit will require the following fixed costs, 

 to get an output of 80,000 feet of logs per day : 



Interest on investment, at 10%, to cover contingent extras, $490.00 



per year, or per day of 300 working days in year, $1 .66 



Depreciation, 5%, -84 



1 Electrician at power house, 4.00 



2 Electricians at donkeys ($4.00 each), 8.00 



2 Choker men ($3.00 each), 6.00 



I Sniper, 3-Oo 



I Chaser, • • 2. 50 



3 Rigging slingers ($3-50 each), 10.50 



I Signalman, 3-00 



I Faller and bucker to operate electric saw, 3 -SO 



$39-00 

 To this add another $2.00 for repairs especially chargeable to 



the electric equipment, 2.00 



And we have as the total daily cost of operating, $41 .00 



Or a cost of 51 ^ cents per thousand from the tree to the water, 

 on 3,000 foot delivery. 



Opposed to this is the average cost of logging by steam given 

 by a Portland engineer: 



4 Fallers at $3.00, $12.00 



3 Buckers at $3.00, 900 



Yarder crew — i driver, i fireman, i bucker, i chaser, i hook- 

 tender, 2 rigging slingers, I swamper and sniper, 26.00 



Roader crew — i engineer, i fireman, i bucker, i chaser, i grab 



man 16.00 



