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the Nor#i Woods, including Maine, New Hampshire and 

 northern New York. The ordinary routine of such a job 

 is as follows: 



The summer before the cutting is to begin a camp 

 site is selected and a camp is built near the center of 

 the piece of timber that is to be cut the first season. 

 Log houses are usually made with shake or tar paper 

 roofs and the crevices between the logs well chinked 

 with mud or plaster. The camp consists of sev- 

 eral buildings and varies in size with the operation 

 and number of men to be housed. The bunk house, 

 generally large enough to "sleep" fifty or sixty men; 

 the cook house and mess hall combined, stable, black- 

 smith shanty, and perhaps an extra little cabin for 

 the boss and the timekeeper, which may also serve as 

 a company store where tobacco, socks, shoe packs, etc., 

 may be bought, comprise the average camp. In some 

 parts of the country portable houses are used which 

 may be picked up and carried to the next camp site 

 after all the nearby trees have been cut down. These 

 are found chiefly on railroad jobs, while on the horse 

 logging job in the North "Woods the log cabin is still 

 quite common. 



While the structures for housing the men and 

 sheltering the horses are being erected, the main haul 

 and skid roads are being constructed. Logging in a 

 hilly country of course requires great care in laying 

 out the road system, and the skill which has been 

 developed by some of the older logging bosses is of a 

 very high order. In fact by eye alone they often lay 

 out an entire system of log roads since their long 

 experience enables them to choose the low grades 

 necessary for economical logging. 



When the camps have been completed and everything 



