134 A MANUAL FOR NORTHERN WOODSMEN 



The timber resources are known; also their location, and 

 all related facts. The cut can be located for years ahead 

 to the best advantage, sotli to make driving and the haul- 

 ing of supplies, for instance, come cheapest and handiest. 



4. A map system preserves information about the land.' 

 An old lumberman or cruiser has a lot of information in 

 his head that is lost to a business when he dies or steps out, 

 unless it is fixed in some permanent form. 



5. A concern knows what it is possessed of, and has that 

 information in the form most easily taken in by all intelli- 

 gent men whom it may be desirable to inform ; for instance, 

 stockholders, and possible money lenders. 



6. A good map system in a business may pay for itself at 

 the first change of management. A new manager coming 

 into a business is in the hands of his employees for years 

 until he can get first-hand knowledge of his country. With 

 the aid of a good map system working command of a big 

 property may be had in a year. 



7. A reliable map system followed up for a term of 

 years through a series of pictures of the land furnishes a 

 record of its growth, and so enables a concern to grapple 

 with the question of future supplies. 



