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Item 4 includes the labor cost of train crews. Conunon carrier railroads are used more in the Puget 

 Sound region than in the Columbia River region, which explains the lower cost in the former case. The 

 loggers in the Grays Harbor and Willapa Harbor regions do not use the railroad so extensively as the 

 loggers in the Puget Sound and Coliunbia River regions, the two former relying more on roading and river 

 driving, which explains the lower cost , , , , , r , 



Item 5 is an average of the labor cost at those camps which do this work by day labor, also those that 

 do it by contract; the contract rates in some cases only include labor, in others the total cost of the work. 

 The cost in the Puget Sound, Grays Harbor, and Willapa Harbor regions includes more contract work 

 than in the Columbia River region, which explains the lower cost in the latter case. 



Item 6 includes the cost of supplies and maintenance (labor and material) of the railroad, dump, and 

 boom. The cost is highest in the Columbia River region. This is because railroads owned by operators 

 are longer in this region than in the other three. Also less contract dumping, sorting, and rafting is done 

 there. The next higher cost is found in the Puget Sound region. This is largely because the loggers 

 operate railroads much more extensively in this region than in the Grays Harbor and WiUapa Harbor 

 regions. 



Items 7, 8, 9, and 14. Reasons for seeming discrepancies are brought out in the notes on items 2, 3, 4, 

 5, and 6. 



Item 15 includes the salaries of superintendents or managers, bookkeepers, etc., at the main office, 

 which is detached from the woods; also fixed sums paid to individuals or companies for selling the logs. 

 The cost of camp foremen, bookkeepers, timekeepers, scalers, etc., is prorated against the major steps in 

 the logging operation proper. 



The camps of the Puget Sound and Columbia River regions group 

 by total logging costs as follows : 



PUGET SOUND REGION. 



Cost per thousand feet.i 



Number 

 of camps. 



Total yearly 

 output of 

 camps in- 

 cluded in 

 statement. 



$4.00 to $4.50 

 $4.51 to $5.00 

 S5.01 to $5.50 

 $5.51 to $6.00 

 $6.01 to $7.00 

 $7.01 to $7.50 



Total. 



Feet. 

 177,000,000 

 100,000,000 

 220,000,000 

 180,000,000 

 135,000,000 

 84,000,000 



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896,000,000 



1 Does not include towing. 

 COLUMBIA RIVER REGION. 



$4.00 to $4.50 



2 

 2 

 3 

 1 

 2 



Feet. 



90,000,000 

 80,000,000 

 80,000,000 

 55,000,000 

 80,000 000 



$4 51 to $5 00 . . . 



$5 01 to $5 50 



$5 51 to $6 00 



$6 01 to $7 00 







Total 



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385,000,000 





The average cost of logging in connection with 19 inland mills in 

 Oregon and Washington, as worked out by Mr. Austin Gary ^ on the 

 basis of the lumber produced and sold, amounted to $4.42 per thou- 

 sand feet. The yearly output of the operations included in this state- 

 ment ranged from seven to thirty-seven million feet. The difference 

 between this average cost and the costs given in Table 4 can largely 

 be explained on the ground that they are based on different units of 

 measure; also by the fact that the average railroad haul is not so 

 long in the case of the inland mills as of the cargo mills. 



1 Logging engineer, Forest Service. 



