CAMPS 6 1 



A general assortment of cold chisels, drawing knives, pinchers 

 and an assortment of files. 



(8) Sled storehouses to shelter sleds and other equipment 

 during the summer months. 



An average crew for the northern woods is about sixty men, and 

 in addition from twenty-five to thirty-five horses. A camp to 

 accommodate a crew of sixty men and thirty horses would be 

 composed of buildings of the following approximate sizes: 



Office and store i6 by 20 feet 



Cook shanty 35 by 37 feet 



Bunk house 35 by 37 feet 



Stables (2) 40 by 40 feet 



Storehouse 16 by 16 feet 



Blacksmith shop 27 by 27 feet 



Storage cellar ". . . . 8 by 1 2 feet 



Sled storehouse 10 by 15 feet 



A camp of this size was built in Maine with a total expenditure 

 of 300 days' labor and twenty days' teamhire at a cost of 

 approximately $600. Three and one-half million feet of timber 

 were logged annually from this camp for three years, so that the 

 cost of camp construction was about 6 cents per thousand feet 

 log scale. On some operations this charge may run as high as 

 10 cents per thousand feet. 



In some parts of the North especially where logging railroads 

 are used, log buildings have been replaced by board camps cov- 

 ered with tar paper. Buildings of this character are torn down 

 when a camp site is abandoned and the lumber is used for build- 

 ings on a new site. 



Portable-house Camps. — The buildings in these camps are 

 used indefinitely and are moved from place to place as logging 

 progresses being placed on skids along either side of the main 

 line or of a spur of the logging railroad. Two or three of them 

 grouped together may form a dwelling for a family, or singly 

 they may be fitted up as bunk houses to shelter two or more men. 

 Large camps in the South may consist of 200 or more houses 

 and shelter from 200 to 300 persons, of whom only from 30 to 50 

 per cent may be men in the employ of the logging company. 



