LOGGING IN COLORADO. 



To r.iva an idea of tb~ lorr.inp rothccls used In 



: : Is of Colorado, I -/ill briefly describe an 

 ration vith wltioh I was connected in the suiair.er of 

 . 



TJ-e will, like root Of the caw irills now operai 

 i.i in tho Cookies, IB a small ono of about 10-12 

 thousand b^r.rd f*>t "per day capacity. It is located 

 r.ear Loa'vill<?, Colorado, on the northwest slope of 

 the Continental Divide at an elevation of about 0,500 

 foot, 



As a rule about twenty-five men arc orployed, 

 ten in the rooJln, elrftt in the mill, two logging teara- 

 atern, two lumber tcanaterH, one oc.r loader, one cook 

 an<I 0:10 lli-iil: y. 



"': t.:o trsca or greatest irmortanoe in cutting 

 are the Fnclw.-r.rn evince and loclrepoie pine. The 

 c<:ttinG oro;7:i .-o .rint of two men who fell the trees, 

 t.a-ir; tlstw, ^1 t x O;A into lo.^o of the doeired Imigth. 



ally t: res tw^-man crews r-ro kept buoy cutting 

 in ' oolo. 



After il'e cv.f.ting crcwo hava paooed 

 two al-.illci-- , each vith ah.- , drny tho loga a rhort 

 ntajice an 1 . builA cl i-'./r^-.i. Ui.eos sk?.- 1 -.7aya are put in 

 j;l.-cea r,o. t convenient for getting to with V.io log 

 road, '. hlle in t'soae nkiduayo, the logs ar: : caled and 

 mar od by the B'oi-jat r.a:j(-;ei* \'ho cooeo to oanp about 

 tv/ice r. .,-fcek. 



T -o log road e-.-'^wyors no" j roooed to cworap a 

 road to ' id'/ays to enable the logging teana to 

 got throi'gh. From the 3ki-I.vt.ya two four-hora^ tearca 

 haul the logs down to the nill. The log hauling io 

 done with a hoavy oled with p. four-foot bunk uron 

 rrhich one end of t}ie logs is placed anl aocvroly chained, 

 A load beinf; oocured, the logs e.re hauled -.lireotly to 

 tho nill lording. 



The mill opcrateo with ntoair r^ar in^ *' roe 

 ci. . av:s are nu;. One largo ra-. o" abctx' 

 'lii ator cuts the logrj into th'.> lumber, A 3= all naw 

 1 'jaod r :;ing off bad ende and uloo for cutting 

 firovood. T:.- *h'r-J oaw, a nroxll rip rivr t 1: U3ed for 

 edging up boc.x*do .ith c'ofeoMvc or bar!: odgea, 



