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CHAPTER VII. 



WOOD-DEPOTS. 



In order to collect transported wood in an orderly way, and 

 store it for a longer or shorter period, a site must be selected for 

 a permanent wood-depot, from which it may pass into the hands 

 of the wood-merchant or consumer. Cases not unfrequeiitly 

 occur, when it is necessary to keep the transported wood, 

 especially logs and sawmill butts, in water until it is used, but 

 usually wood is stored on land and kept dry. 



The arrangement of a wood-depot differs according as the wood 

 has been transported by land or water. 



1. Land-depots. 



Any well-drained area sufficiently extensive and accessible to 

 cart-traffic will serve as a depot for wood transported on carts, 

 tramcars or sledges. In collecting and storing logs, which are 



Fig. 254. 



to be transported further by the purchaser, all that is required is 

 to arrange them in an orderly manner, after duly considering the 

 available space. If there is plenty of room, and the logs are to 

 be numbered, measured and registered at the depot, they may be 

 arranged as shown in fig. 254, or the logs and butts may be placed 

 in three or four layers, crosswise, one above the other. If there 

 is not much room, and no necessity for estimating the volume 



