TRANSPORTATION ON LAND BY VEHICLES:— THE VEHICLES 



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Sled traction engine, made by Phcenix Manufacturing Co., 

 pulling 16 double sleds loaded with 66,825 feet b. m. of logs. 



Sled traction engine pulling cord wood. 



2. The traction engine requires:- 



Well prepared, level, and well iced roads. 



E.xtra number of wide and strong sleds, with short stub tongues. 



1 V2 tons coal per day. 



Water every five miles, or a tank sled (same as used for sprinkling). 



Crew of three men (engineer, fireman, steerer). 



3. Capacity :- The engine, travelling at night preferably, covers 35 to 50 miles per day. It pulls 

 a train consisting of 10 to 15 heavily loaded sleds at a time. Uphill grades of 10 per cent are said 

 to be feasible for the engine. The engine is not recommended for hauls under three miles long. 



(B) TWO-WHEELERS. The Southern logging superintendents, at a recent meeting, gave the following 

 as the figures, per 1,000 feet b. m., for labor expenses incurred by their concerns when hauling or skidding 

 to tracks by two-wheel trucks :- 



Arkansas ... from 35"3 to 63 cents Louisiana ... from 49 cents to •■-•209 



Texas from 45 cents to •vl'61 Mississippi ... from .vf60 to -v I'SO 



I. High wheelers, with wheels 7 to 10 feet high, are used in the pineries of the South, in California, and 

 in the Lake States for hauling logs or bunches of logs, regardless of log length and of log diameter. The 



Slip-tongue arrangement of high wheeler, seen irom 

 behind. 



Logging by slip-longue carts, side view, holdings of John 

 L. Roper Lumber Co. 



