58 Forest Club Annual 



Assistant inspectors, and assistant sealers, sawyers, 

 swampers and drivers 30.00 



The "cutting crew" consists of six men; four sawyers, 

 one swamper, and one skidder. The sawyers fell and cut the 

 trees into logs, the swamper trims the logs and clears the way 

 for the skidder. Skidding is done, as a rule, with one horse. 

 The jobber besides supervising the work, blazes and clears the 

 road which is to be used for hauling the logs from the skidways 

 in the woods to the landing place. Each jobber usually em- 

 ploys from two to five "cutting crews". When all cutting is 

 finished, the logs are hauled on sleighs to the landing places. 

 These are located on the banks of lakes or streams on which 

 the logs can be driven in the spring to Grand Mere. 



All operations are done according to a set of logging rules 

 which are, in part, as follows : 



1. All trees must be cut to and none under the prescribed 

 diameter limit which is nine inches for Balsam Fir on 

 stump, eleven inches for White Spruce, and seven inches 

 for Black Spruce. Seed trees are excepted. These 

 are blazed and marked by the inspector. 



2. The stumps must not be higher than two feet. 



3. All logs must be thirteen and one-half feet long. 



4. No tops shall be left which will make a log thirteen 

 and a half feet long by four inches in diameter at the 

 small end. Also all smaller trees which are broken 

 down by the log trees and all dry and sound Spruce 

 and Balsam Fir on burned over areas must be cut up 

 if they contain logs thirteen and a half feet long by 

 four inches at the small end. 



5. Butting, (cutting off and discarding pieces from the 

 butt end which are affected with a rot) is discouraged 

 as much as possible. All logs must be taken out, piled 

 on skidways, stamped and one end painted red. The 

 ends of the logs are painted to distinguish them from 

 those of the other companies, wherever they may be 

 driven on the same river. The stamp marks often be- 

 come illegible after the logs have been in water a couple 

 of months or longer. 



Violation of any of these rules is considered a violation 

 of the contract and the jobber must pay ten cents for every 

 high stump and every large top. They must also pay full mar- 

 ket value for all logs, or felled log trees or trees supposed to be 

 cut, which are left in the woods. The company's inspectors su- 

 pervise the work and report any such violation in their weekly 



