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second fallers, $3.40 to $3.50; head bucker, $3.75; assistant head 

 bucker, $3; biickers, $3.25. 



The labor cost per thousand feet in other jeavs Avas as follows: 

 1911, felling $0.31, bucking $0.46; 1910, felling and bucking, $1.10; 

 1915, felling and bucking, $0.49. In 1915 the company used a bonus 

 system in connection with the felling and bucking. 



The head bucker supervised the felling and bucldng work and, with 

 an assistant, marked the log lengths. The logs were measured with 

 a tape. Prior to the adoption of this method the management ex- 

 perienced gi^eat difficulty in getting the logs bucked square off and 

 of the desired length. 



During the year the company averaged about 3 sets of fallers 

 and about 16 buckers per day. This is 5 buckers to a set of fallers, 

 and seems high. However, we have noted that there was a con- 

 siderable amount of down timber, and that the size of the timber and 

 the character of the ground made it a difficult and dangerous bucking 

 chance. 



(4) Labor cost per thousand feet for felling and bucking at a camp 

 along the Columbia Eiver in Oregon in 1911 and 1912. 



The area was quite level, the surface regular, being considered one 

 of the best ground chances in this region. 



It was a second-growth forest which was cutting out about 80,000 

 feet per acre, the trees averaging about 28 inches in diameter breast 

 high. From 90 to 95 per cent of the stand was Douglas fir, the rest 

 hemlock. The timber was practically sound, and breakage did not 

 amount to 5 per cent. The logs averaged about 60 feet in length and 

 800 feet in volume. 



The labor cost per thousand feet in 1911 was $0,295 for felling and 

 $0,227 for bucking. The felling cost includes one-half the wages 

 of the filer; the bucking cost, the wages of the head bucker and 

 one-half the wages of the filer. Approximately two buckers worked 

 with a set of fallers. The following daily wages were paid: Head 

 fallers, $3.75; second fallers, $3.50; buckers, $3.25; head bucker, 

 $3.75 ; filer, $3.50. 



The labor cost per thousand feet in 1912 was $0,298 for felling and 

 $0,308 for bucking. 



(5) Labor cost per thousand feet for felling and bucking at a 

 camp on the western foothills of the Cascades in Washington in 

 1911 and 1912. 



The area covered during these two years was of mixed topog- 

 raphy, there being good and bad chances. Some parts of the ground 

 were quite level, with a relatively smooth surface ; other parts, while 

 quite level in general, were badly broken up by small hummocks 

 and pot holes. Slopes of from 30 to 60 per cent were not uncom- 

 mon, their surfaces varying in smoothness like the level land. 



