LUMBERING WITH ELEPHANTS IN BURMA. 



ORIENTAL METHODS WHICH WILL PROVE INTER- 

 ESTING TO LUMBERMEN OF THE UNITED STATES. 



BY 



LESLIE HARRISON. 



AMERICA presents varied scenes 

 and contrasting methods in its 

 lumbering industries, and while modern 

 invention makes use of endless cables 

 and improved log tramways, there can 

 be found in identical camps with these 

 the most primitive power of skids and 

 steers. Even more than most persons 

 realize, the use of these slow animals is 

 still adhered to, and the yoke of oxen 

 is in requisition from the Maine w r oods 

 to the redwood forests of California. 

 The sole use of the ox in a lumber camp, 

 however, is that of the draft animal. 



In Burma the animal generally used 

 in lumbering operations is the elephant. 

 While "my lord, the elephant," solves 

 in an unique way the transportation 

 problem always a vexatious one in 

 lumbering operations he does more 

 than that. The stolid and slow-moving 

 ox can haul a load from one place to 

 another, but the load has to be made 

 ready for him in the first place, and after 

 it has arrived at its destination it has to 

 be unloaded. The elephant takes care 

 of all of these operations. Not only is 

 he a draft animal, but in some instances, 



GETTING TEAK LOGS OUT OF A JAM IN A CREEK. 



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