18 Forest Club Annual 



The portable houses have 24x30 feet of floor space and 

 are 12 feet high at the ridge. They are built in two sections 

 fitting together along the ridge line, each half making a 

 large box and requiring a single logging car for moving. 

 The houses have a door at each end and are equipped with 

 four windows, two on a side. The office with one bookkeeper 

 in charge is located in one of these houses. A carpenter is 

 employed to keep the houses in repair. The commissary cars 

 have 12x48 feet of floor space and are 8 feet high. Two of 

 them are built with one open side in each. When these are 

 set on railroad spurs laid side-by-side, they can be fitted 

 together by the open sides making one storeroom with 24x48 

 feet of floor space. Another car is used as a storage room 

 and the fourth as an ice and meat house. The cars have 

 three windows in each side and doors at the end. A com- 

 missary manager assisted by one clerk has charge of the 

 store. The boarding cars are the same dimensions as the 

 commissary cars and are similar to them except that they 

 have 6 windows in each side and a platform at each end which 

 serves as a porch. Two are fitted up as cook cars, three as 

 dining cars, and five as bunk cars. The engine shed with 

 accommodations for two engines is built of corrugated iron. 

 It is made in sections and can be taken down and moved 

 quite easily. One hostler, who also acts as nightwatchman, 

 cleans the engines at night, oils them, and gets up steam in 

 the morning. Two engines are used regularly although the 

 company keeps four on the operation. * 



The animals used on the operation are kept at a corral 

 in the woods near where the work is being carried on. The 

 corral is moved when the cutting area gets to be three miles 

 or more distant. A stable built of poles with a corrugated 

 iron roof which comes in sections, feed troughs for 60 head 

 of stock, and 2 water tanks are located in the corral. One 

 man lives in a portable house at this place and does the feed- 

 ing and shoeing. The feed is stored in two portable houses 

 near by. Feeding is done once a day, in the evening. The feed 

 consists of alfalfa hay and corn chop. 



The water supply for the boarding cars, engines, and 

 animals is furnished by a steam pump and is stored in a 

 reservoir several acres in area. The reservoir was made 

 by building a dirt dam across a small "branch." The steam 

 pump with a capacity of 10,000 gallons daily is located in 

 a small wooden house beside the main line. A wooden water 





