The Pacific Coast Logging Congress 



The third annual session of the Pacific 

 Coast Logging Congress was held at Van- 

 couver, B. C, June 22 to 24, 1911; this 

 was the first session of the congress ever 

 held in Canada. The Vancouver Hotel 

 was the headquarters of the congress, 

 while the sessions were held in the Im- 

 perial Eink. The attendance was a large 

 and representative one, some two hundred 

 signing the register. 



The first session opened at 10.30 on 

 Thursday morning, June 22, the president, 

 E. P. Blake, of Seattle, Wash., presiding 

 at this, as at subsequent sessions. The 

 first item of the morning's program was 

 an address of welcome, which was read by 

 J. A. Smith, president of the British Co- 

 lumbia Loggers' Association. 



The president and the secretary- 

 treasurer (Geo. M. Cornwall, of Portland, 

 Oregon) then gave their annual address- 

 es, touching on many matters of interest 

 to the congress. The financial report was 

 given by the assistant treasurer, David 

 Davis, and showed the membership of the 

 congress to be 102. 



The chief address of the morning of in- 

 terest from the standpoint of forestry was 

 that of E. T. Allen, of Portland, Oregon, 

 forester for the Western Forestry and 

 Conservation Association. After compli- 

 menting the lumbermen for their support 

 of proposals for the better protection of 

 the forest from fire, he referred to the 

 good work accomplished by the fire asso- 

 ciations and com])ared the records of the 

 states where these associations existed 

 with those where there was no such body. 

 He discussed briefly the fire laws of the 

 states of California, Oregon, Washington, 

 Idaho and Montana. 



Other pa)>ers given at the morning ses- 

 sion were 'The 11 ill-climbing Locomoti\"j', 

 by E. O. Potter, of Portland, Oregon, ard 

 'Topographical Surveys', by W. W. Peed, 

 Samoa, Calif. 



At Thursday afternoon's session Otto 

 Lachmund, Manager of the Arrow LaKes 

 Lumber Co., Arrowhead, B. C, gave a 

 paper on 'Logging in the Interior of Brit- 

 ish Columbia'. He noted the differ ?ui'e 

 between the logging methods used in the 

 East and those in vogue in British Colum- 

 bia, and also the dissimilarity of the me- 

 thods in use in the coast district of Brit- 

 ish Columbia and those employed in the 

 interior of the province; on the coast, for 

 instance, donkey engines were used, while 

 in the interior horses were found more 

 economical. He discussed the shortage of 

 labor and the danger from fire. Papers 

 were also given at the afternoon session 



as follows: — 'Logging in Montana', by 

 W. E. Wells, of Somers, Montana; 'Log- 

 ging Eedwood', by D. L. Albert ,of Oak- 

 land, Calif.; 'Logging Contracts', by A. J. 

 Hendry, Vancouver, B. C; 'Logging on 

 the Sky-line', by C. E. MacFarlane, Port- 

 land, Oregon; 'Firwood Distillation', by 

 W. E. Young, Portland, Oregon; 'Logging 

 in U. S. National Forests', by H. M. 

 Strathern, Port Falls, Idaho, and ' Cost of 

 Wire Rope', by Jas. O'Hearne, Mt. Ver. 

 non. Wash. 



On Friday morning the subjects dis- 

 cussed were 'The Adaptability of the 

 Cable Locomotive on Steep Grades ', by R. 

 L. Eraser, Vancouver, B. C.; 'Electricity 

 as applied to Logging and Logging Equip- 

 ment', by A. E. Ransom, Seattle, Wash.; 

 ' The Application of Electric Power to 

 Logging Operations', by E. G. Robinson, 

 Arlington, Wash.; 'A New Type of Donkey 

 Engine Fire Box', by A. W. Clark, of 

 Portland, Oregon; 'Gasoline Logging En- 

 gine', by R. J. Mullin, Seattle, Wash.; 

 ' Lidgerwood Logging System ', by R. D. 

 Merrill, Seattle, Wash., and 'The Neces- 

 sity for Uniform Scaling of Logs ', by J. 

 T. O 'Gorman, Portland, Oregon. 



On Friday afternoon J. A. Harvey, of 

 Vancouver, read a paper on 'Employers' 

 Liability Legislation' in British Colum- 

 bia. He quoted the provisions of the leg- 

 islation of the province in regard to work- 

 men 's compensation and criticized' the 

 clumsiness of the machinery for putting 

 it into effect. He advocated raising an 

 insurance fund to which the province, the 

 employers and the workmen should con- 

 tribute and which should be administered 

 by a paid commissioner appointed by the 

 province. 



The employers' liability legislation of 

 the Western States was also treated by 

 Jas. B. Kerr, of Portland, Oregon. 



The Resolutions Committee then submit- 

 ted their report, which was adopted, and 

 the election of officers was then held, 

 which resulted in the re-election of the 

 old officers. 



On Friday evening a banquet was tend- 

 ered the visitors by the British Columbia 

 loggers, and on Saturday the delegates 

 and their friends, to the number of about 

 two hundred, visited the plant of the Can- 

 adian Western Lumber Company at Eraser 

 Mills, at the mouth of the Pitt river. Dur- 

 ing the afternoon Prof. H. W. Sparks, of 

 Pullman, Wash., gave a demonstration of 

 his char-pitting method of clearing land 

 of stumps. 



Tacoma, Wash., was selected as the next 

 place of meeting. 



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