50 REDWOOD LUMBERING. 



a Sunday in camp, reading the weekly journals or magazines, 

 writing letters to relatives in the East, mending clothes, and, 

 perhaps, doing their own washing. 



During the working days of the week there is no desire 

 to spend the evening in any sort of amusement. They are 

 only too glad to occupy their bunks after supper and a smoke. 

 Tired out with hard labor, the nights seem short at best, as 

 the horn toots promptly at six in the morning for breakfast. 

 Thus it is seen the life of a logger is not an exciting one, yet 

 healthful to those who escape accidents, for these are not in- 

 frequent where the best of judgment is not displayed and 

 watchfulness is lax in the workmen. 



We should, perhaps, have previously stated that the larg- 

 est logs, say those above ten feet in diameter, are split in 

 twain. The very largest, say sixteen or eighteen feet in diam- 

 eter, are quartered by blasting. For this purpose, a very 

 long augur is used. A hole is bored past the center, a car- 

 tridge inserted, and the log split into sections that can be eas- 

 ily handled either in camp, at railroad landing, in raft, or at 

 mill. 



Now that we have taken a glimpse at the preliminary 

 work of turning the redwood tree into lumber though not 

 so much in detail as some practical observers may think com- 

 plete we will follow its segregated body to the mill. 



Taking the latest plan adopted for transporting logs to 

 mill by rail, or by rail and rafting together, from logging 

 camps, as a base line for a superficial observation, we find the 

 landing at the end of the skid-road, where the ox-teamster 

 has deposited his freight. This landing is built of fir or pine, 



