by technical training they might have reached higher goals. On the other 

 hand technical training with no experience is a great deal worse than the 

 experience with no technical training, for it means a mass of ideas w r ith 

 no practical knowledge of how 7 to apply them. For this reason there are 

 but few managers w T ho would not rather trust their business to the man 

 with experience ; for they know that the experienced man will accomplish 

 the task even though it may not be done in the most efficient manner pos- 

 sible. The beginner should then strive for both training and experience. 

 He should get his training while he is young and can easily and quickly 

 learn and while his character is being moulded. After obtaining the re- 

 quired prerequisites he should attend some school teaching logging engi- 

 neering. The broadening subjects in english, mathematics and the allied 

 science subjects, should be pursued for a time which will be the foundation 

 of later work. These courses will give him ability to express himself in 

 public and among his fellows and at the same time w r ill give his mind the 

 capacity to assimilate larger subjects. While taking these courses he 

 may argue that they have no bearing on his case, but his opinion will 

 usually be changed after getting out into actual work, unless it may be 

 that he did not take enough of them to give him breadth of vision sufficient 

 to see their need. This lack will soon show as he progresses in his pro- 

 fession. If he has not the stamina to conquer a good stiff course he has 

 not the tenacity to stick to a forty of timber until the best route for 

 opening it up is found. 



Of course a good deal of training in surveying is necessary so that it 

 becomes a tool which he can use as easily as a compass or an axe. 



A knowledge of the timber side of the business, by studying how a 

 tree grows and can be made to grow, its diseases and protection will be 

 part of the engineer's study. He will learn how to get amounts of stand- 

 ing timber by cruising, or amounts of cut timber by scaling. He must 

 deal with trees all his life and should start his training from this viewpoint. 

 If he works for logging companies he will probably never have to plant 

 trees, yet he is a forester as much as is the man who replaces stands, except 

 that he is working at the utilization end of the profession while the other 

 man is working at the reproduction and protective end. As time goes on 

 these two phases of the work are being brought closer and closer together 

 and sooner or later they will be carried on side by side. 



One thing the logging engineer should guard against is scattering 

 his training too much. Of course many camps have electric systems and 

 in time a great many will have electric hauling systems, but because of 

 this there is no use in going far into the subject of electrical engineering. 

 A course in physics and perhaps a short popular course in electricity 

 should give foundation enough to study up any problems he may have to 

 meet. Similarly there would be little use in going into bridge designing, 

 for few companies ever have to build anything but small pile or bent 

 bridges. Even though the logging engineer has taken a course in bridge 

 designing he will probably have no use for it in a logging operation for 

 many years. 



It would be a far better policy from the standpoint of a company 

 for them to get a consulting engineer, who does that kind of work con- 

 stantly and is up to date in it, to take the contract for their truss bridges. 

 The logging engineer will be of more value if he is proficient in a few 

 things than if he is an encyclopedia of knowledge on a great many things, 



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