HENRY FORD'S FOREST 



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THE FORD LOGGING CAMP FOUR MILES FROM SIDNAW. MICHIGAN. IT IS ELECTRICALLY LIGHTED AND STEAM 

 HEATED THROUGHOUT. NO BATH TUBS YET, BUT THEY ARE COMING THIS WINTER. 



use 1 2- foot bunks which are expected to about double the 

 loads. The tractor runs inside the iced tracks and ac- 

 cording to Mr. Hartt can attain a maximum speed of 

 twenty miles an hour. 



Ford Wages to the Lumberjack 



The standard Ford wage is $5 a day for the first sixty 

 days and then $6 a day is paid in the woods as well as in 

 the Ford mill and factories. But he has to lie a good 

 lumberjack or he soon gets his time. This wage includes 

 board, the company figuring board at'^2 a day, so that 

 the wage scale is tetter stated at $3 ^d $4 a day and 

 board. This stands out in marked contrast to the wage 



of $1 to $1.50 a day and board now being paid in other 

 logging camps in the north woods. 



The next day I again spent several hours with Mr. 

 Kingsford in Iron Mountain. There were a lot of ques- 

 tions I wanted to ask. For example, how could the com- 

 pany a a business proposition pay its lumberjacks three 

 and four times the wage other lumbermen are paying 

 and in addition $2.50 a thousand feet for disposing of 

 the brush? Mr. Kingsford smiled when we got to that 

 point. 



"Last winter the logs we bought cost us $28 a thou- 

 sand feet at the mill. We delivered our own logs at the 

 mill for $26 a thousand feet and that included a freight 



ALL BRUSH IS PILED AND BURNED BEFORE THE SKIDDING OF LOGS BEGINS "IT MAKES LOGGING EASIER, AND 

 THEN IT'S THE BEST SORT OF FIRE PROTECTION," SAYS THE LOGGING SUPERINTENDENT. 



