60 FOREST REGULATION 



a. Logging or Exploitation, Methods and Costs, 

 Effects on Forest. 



This usually involves : 



1. What is done in this Vicinity with the Kinds of timber 

 found upon the property. How much is cut, where, and by whom. 



2. How is the work done, i. e.. Methods of Logging, trans- 

 portation, milling, including matters of labor, usual results and cost. 

 Particularly the methods of logging and transportation of timber to 

 mill require special study, and the principal steps of felling, cutting 

 into logs, skidding (or yarding) loading, hauling, driving or rail- 

 roading, the construction of roads, railway, camps, etc., all need 

 mention. 



3. How is the Material marketed, where and at what prices, 

 including the consideration of value of material at different points, 

 as logs in woods, at mill, as stumpage. 



4. In what condition do these methods of logging leave the 

 woods from standpoint of silviculture and protection. 



5. Names of men who take contracts of logging, buy stumpage, 

 or logs, and mills ready to convert timber on contract, etc. 



6. Suggestions for improvement especially as to 



a. Silviculture and Protection. 



b. Economy in logging. 



c. Opportunity of manufacturing the stuff by owner. 



This set of information is very important, it is largely a matter 

 of visits and canvass or inquiry, requires tact and preparation, and 

 often can only be done through special, extended study by some 

 person of considerable experience. In districts with special forms 

 of exploitation such as Turpentine industry, tan bark, acid, pulp 

 and extract wood ; railway ties, poles, piling, cordwood jobs, cooper- 

 age, wagon stock, etc., these industries require attention. 



b. The Market. 



Needs special study, and includes both local markets and dis- 

 tant (usually large city) market as well as rates of shipment to 

 these markets. 



The large ''World Markets", i. e., the big cities, at a distance 

 are known, the prices paid or demanded are seen in Technical 



