INDEX 577 



Pitch, 96. 



Platanus occidentalis, 23. 



Plowing earth, output per hour, 263. 



Plug boom, 361. 



Plummer, Fred G., on forest fires, 38, 469. 



Pockets, rafting, 389. 



Pole railroad, 242. 



cars for a, 244. 

 character of road, 242. 

 constructing a right-of-way for, 242. 

 construction, cost of, 244. 

 grades, 242. 

 maintenance of, 244. 

 Poles, chestnut, stumpage value in Connecticut, 418. 

 felling and peeling, 419. 

 pike, 376. 

 rafting, 383. 

 Polleys, E. G., on an Idaho lumbering operation, 472. 

 Poplar, floating ability, 374. 



resistance of wood in cross-cut sawing, 76. 

 yellow, cross-cut saws for cutting, 75. 

 lumber cut, 1910, 18. 

 stumpage value of, 18. 

 uses of, 18. 

 Portable house, camp, 61. 



cost, 63, illustration, 62. 

 loading on a car with animals, 63. 

 loading on a car with power, 63. 

 material required for construction of, 63. 

 Portable mill operations, 417. 

 Potter, 171. 



Potter, E. O., on the cable locomotive, 303, 473. 

 Powder, black, 275. 



Power, for aerial tramway, 223-225, 228. 

 cableway system, 199. 

 inclines, 297-299, 301. 

 a road engine, 218. 

 slack-rope system, 208, 213, 217. 

 snaking system, 204. 

 felling machine, 78. 

 Power log loaders, 322. 



log-making machine, 79. 

 skidding, 196. 



cableway system, ig6. 

 first patent on machinery for, 196. 

 slack-rope system, 208, 430. 

 snaking system, 204. 

 Pratt, C. S., on workmen's compensation acts, 55. 

 Primers and priming for dynamite, 273. 

 Protection, forest property, 25. 

 Prunus serotina, 23. 

 Pseudotsuga taxifolia, 5. 

 Puget Sound, rafting on, 368. 



rafting works on, 368. 

 season for transporting logs on, 368. 

 Pullboat, canals for, 208. 



"fantailing," 208, illustrations, 209, 210. 

 Louisiana swamps, operation in, 196, 208, 430. 

 operation of, 208, 430. 

 skidding, preparation of logs for, 211, 212. 



