94 Forest Club Annual 



Cost of bridge and trail $1609.00 



Cost of bridge 337.50 



Cost of trail 1271.50 



Cost per mile 155.63 



This cost is considered high. The trail was built in three 

 different periods coming in three successive fiscal years. This 

 necessitated the breaking in of a new crew every year and 

 added considerably to the cost. 



Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon. 



Trail building is very expensive in this region because 

 the heavy rainfall causes very rank and dense vegetation. 

 There is also much fallen timber and many old stumps. In 

 location the Abney hand level was used and the route was 

 marked by blazing. A crew of 10 men and a cook are ordi- 

 narily employed. Trails are cleared to a width of 12 feet. 

 The grade does not exceed 10 per cent and the tread is 18 

 inches wide. Small bridges or culverts are built over streams 



Tools for crew of 10 men : 



4 peavies. 



2 seven-foot cross-cut saws. 

 10 axes. 



6 long handled shovels. 

 1 leveling shovel, (resembling a hoe.) 

 6 brush hooks. 

 1 grindstone. 



whetstones and files. 

 1 lifting jack. 



Levels are run along the preliminary survey and any cor- 

 rections necessary to keep the grade are made, stakes are set, 

 and the swampers follow, clearing the brush. Then the 

 sawyers cut the down logs and roll them out of the way, and 

 the graders follow and dig out the tread to the required 

 width. One man follows the graders scooping out the loose 

 dirt and leveling the trail, which is then considered complete. 

 About 70 miles of trail have been built at an average cost of 

 $200.00 per mile, which includes both cash outlay and forest 

 officers' time for surveying and construction. 



