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Camps of this character constitute small villages with a school 

 and church for the benefit of the loggers and their famihes. 

 Other buildings include quarters for the superintendent, some- 

 times a boarding-house for single men, barns for the stock, a 

 machine shop, storage houses, coal supply bins for the locomo- 

 tives and a commissary or store. The latter is an important 

 feature in isolated camps for not only the families in camp but 

 also many of the local inhabitants secure their supplies from this 

 source. Stores of this character often carry a large stock of 

 goods and sell monthly several thousand dollars' worth of mer- 

 chandise, groceries and feed. 



Fig. 9. — A Portable-house Logging Camp. The large building in the rear is the 

 commissary or general store. Arkansas. 



When families do not live in camps the number of buildings 

 is limited and may include, besides the bunk houses, an office 

 and a cook shanty. The latter because of its large size frequently 

 is not portable. A small "van" is maintained from which the 

 men can secure such necessities as they require. Camps of this 

 character are found in the Northwest. 



Portable houses must be of a size that can be loaded readily 

 and transported on log cars. Strength in construction is an 

 important factor, because of the frequent handHng to which 

 they are subjected. 



