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beans with his knife, or have the audacity to help himself 

 with his own fork. With all due deference to the amenities 

 which characterize social life in ultra-fashionable society, the 

 humanitarian, we venture to assert, can select no spot where 

 he can witness the enjoyment of satisfying the inner man 

 more fully than at the boards of the loggers' camp. 



But to return to the further surroundings of the camp, 

 from which we have digressed at so much length. 



The repair shop, consisting of a blacksmith's and "Jack 

 at all trades " separate departments, is looked upon as a sort 

 of manufacturing center. Here all the oxen are shod, chains, 

 " dogs," jack screws, picks, shovels, wedges and trucks (if 

 used) are repaired, ax helves fitted, mawls made, saws filed, 

 and tools ground. The blacksmith and handy man find 

 quite sufficient to do keeping things in order, for a gang of 

 workmen numbering fifty, sixty or seventy, according to the 

 amount of logs to be removed during the season, requires 

 their services. Then, here is the long barn in which the oxen 

 are fed, and the hay, corn meal, or ground barley are stored. 

 Down through the center is the feed ; on each side are the 

 stalls for the cattle, numbering perhaps forty, perhaps s'xty, 

 depending as to number upon the proximity of the " claim '' 

 to facilities for transporting logs to the mills. Of late years, 

 the method of hauling logs by railroads of standard gauge, 

 which are extended right into the redwood logging camps, has 

 not made it necessary to require the service of so many ox teams. 

 When logs are to be " run " down creek or river, the number 

 of oxen required is owing to the distance the logging <: claim" is 

 located from the dumping ground. With the employment 



