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he trees into logs), snaking, and brush piling are each done by a crew of men 

 ^ho do that and that alone. One feature of the logging, common throughout 

 he Pacific Coast, is the one-man bucking. Two men sawing with the same 

 aw is, so far as I know, never seen except in the case of the fallers. Each 

 tucker has his own saw, furnished by the company, and he uses it alone. The 

 imber is soft and not difficult to saw. Pitch is the worst hindrance and that 

 s readily overcome by kerosene, a bottle of which is carried by each man with 

 i saw. 



The milling season for the two companies begins in May and lasts until 

 ibout the middle or last of November, but logging in the woods may continue 

 onger, depending upon the rain and snow. Up to the present the winter 

 ogging has been limited entirely to decking the logs in the woods until the 

 uilling season opens in the spring. 



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THE WORK OF THE COMPANIES 



The Feather River Lumber Company to date has been logging altogether 

 svith horses, the number required being about fifty or sixty. Their timber is 

 located chiefly on mountain sides sloping into canyons up which logging truck 

 roads are built. A skidder with his team of two or four horses and an 

 assistant is provided for each six-horse team truck. They skid the logs from 

 the mountain sides to landings on the logging roads and help the truck driver 

 load each trip. During the past season the length of the average haul was 

 about two and one-half miles. Six 6-horse trucks making three trips per day 

 supplied the mill cutting an average of 40,000 feet per day, thus making the 

 loads average about 2,200 feet each. 



Because of the long, dry summer the logging roads become very dusty 

 and for this reason the 3-trip instead of 4-trip haul was established. Not only 

 is the dust very severe on the horses, but it also necessitates a smaller load 

 than would be hauled on a firmer road. 



The logging done by the Marsh Lumber Company is on a different plan, 

 being that of donkey engines and high wheels. The high wheels are a sort of 

 cart made up of a tongue, two high wheels varying in height from 8 to 12 

 feet, and a large axle to which the logs are swung. They are used on the most 

 level ground, on short hauls not exceeding one-quarter of a mile from the 

 logging railroad. The donkey engines are used to snake the logs from the 

 rough and steep places into chutes that extend from the logging railroad up 

 the ravines and canyons. Horses snake the logs in the chutes to the logging 

 railroad where they are loaded on to the cars by a steam loader. 



The Feather River Lumber Company is now making an addition to its 

 method of logging. A standard gauge railroad is being constructed to their 

 main body of timber and a pond dug for the logs at the mill. In connection 

 svith their planing mill they have recently installed an apartment for getting 

 Hit sash and door stock, a product that must be free from knots. By filling 

 jills for sash and door stock they are now able to get out a large per cent of 

 ?lear lumber which was formerly shipped directly from the stack and sold 



