packing house or a steel mill has tainted its waters. Sta- 

 tistics of the geological survey show that the waters of the 

 streams and springs in Northern Minnesota are the purest 

 of the pure, and it is from these that the lumberjack gets 

 his drinking water. 



And About The Food. 



Ah, but the food, the skeptical will say what of the food; 

 there perhaps the complaint is justified. Again we answer, 

 no. Long since, the logger has learned that he can make no 

 better investment than to provide his men with a good table, 

 and an investigation of the requisitions of cooks of the vari- 

 ous lumber camps shows the following: 



Meats Beef, muttou, ham, bacon, sausage, liver, fresh and 

 salt fish, and dried beef. 



Vegetables Potatoes, cabbage, rutabagas, carrots, beets, 

 white navy beans, baking beans and sauerkraut. 



Relishes->-Pickles, all kinds; tomato catsup, syrup, molasses 

 and vinegar. 



Canned goods Apples, rhubarb, pumpkin, corn, peas, to- 

 matoes, and mince meat. 



Dried fruit Apples, peaches, prunes, figs, currants, seed 

 and seedless raisins. 



Flour Straight, patent, rye and graham, cracked and rolled 

 oats, rice and macaroni. 



Tea and coffee. 



Miscellaneous Oleomargarine and lard; brown and granu- 

 lated sugar, cornstarch, yeast foam, Arm and Hammer soda, 

 baking powder, lemon and vanilla extracts and spices of all 

 kinds. 



In the early days the food provided for the lumberjack 

 lacked in variety and was not of the best. Indeed some 

 camps provided miserably for the men and earned unenvi- 

 able reputations for the companies. All this has changed, 

 and the "grub" in the average logging camp today is superior 

 as a rule to that served at village hotels. 



And now as to the camps themselves and their sanitation. 



While there is scarcely a lumber camp any place that was 

 meant to be permanent, the camps of Northern Minnesota 

 are as well constructed as any. Rough and uncouth, perhaps, 

 in appearances, the camps are built with the precision of a 



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