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logs. For handling these monsters no ordinary road will 

 answer. It must be wide and smooth as a turnpike, all rocks 

 and roots must be carefully removed, all hollows and gullies 

 filled up; if the road is level or soft, skids must be laid 

 down. If the logs are small, of course such care need not be 

 taken, but for large timber it requires good engineering and 

 much hard work, even, to build a good logging road. 



"With the road built, comes the labor of rolling the logs into 

 it. Cattle alone would be useless, except for the smaller logs. 

 Blocks and tackle, often double and sometimes triple blocks, 

 are needed to roll them out of their beds. Nor will any or- 

 dinary teamster answer to handle the cattle. He must be a 

 man of judgment and skill. The best teamsters command a 

 salary of $150 to $i So per month. The 'bull-whacker' is 

 usually the highest priced man in camp. 



" Once in the road, several logs are fastened together to 

 make a ' train,' and are hauled to a landing to be loaded on the 

 cars, or to the stream to be floated to the mill. The train of 

 logs once started, there must be no stopping if it can be 

 avoided. All along the road are stationed barrels of water. 

 As the train moves, a man runs along beside it, and, filling 

 and refilling his pail from the barrels, throws water in front 

 of the train, that there may be as little friction as possible. 

 The loads hauled are sometimes enormous. One train of 

 seven logs, hauled on Humboldt Bay, in 1878, by A. A. 

 Marks, teamster, with five yoke of oxen, scaled, collectively, 

 22,500 feet, board measure, of merchantable lumber. No 

 wagons are used in the woods ; the logs are simply ' snaked ' 

 on the ground. 



