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LOGGING 



If only one machine is yarding to the road engine the cost will 

 be approximately 85 per cent higher. 



The total cost of logging on an average Douglas fir operation 

 is approximately as follows: 



Felling and bucking 



Yarding and loading 



Railroad transportation (logging road) 



Railroad transportation (trunk line) 



Booming 



Scaling ■ 



Sales expense for logs 



Repairs, renewals, maintenance, insurance.... 



Railroad construction 



Depreciation 



Supervision, city office expense, miscellaneous 



Total 



Cost per 1000 

 feet. 



$0.5 



$5-45 



G. MOUNTAIN LOGGING IN WEST VIRGINIA ' 



Period of Logging. — The year round. 



Labor. — The foremen are usually Americans, and the remaining 

 laborers are chiefly foreigners, such as Italians, Austrians, Poles 

 and Hungarians with a small percentage of other nationalities. 



Camps. — The camps are chiefly board structures built along 

 the logging railroad. They accommodate from fifty to seventy- 

 five men and from twenty-five to thirty-five horses. Board and 

 lodging are provided by the operator. Families seldom reside 

 in camp. 



^ See Cost of Mountain Logging in West Virginia, by Henry H. Farquhar. 

 Forestry Quarterly, Vol. VII, pp. 255-269. 



