LOGGING IN THE DOUGLAS PIE REGION. 



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of yarders Nos. 1 and 2 were practically the same, both from the 

 standpoint of volume and the number of logs. 



Table 16. — Summary of yarding output. 



Yarder. 



Number 

 of logs. 



Number 

 of ma- 

 chine 

 days. 



Total scale. 



Average 



number 



of logs 



per day. 



Average 

 volume 

 of logs. 



Average 



daily 

 output. 



No.l ., 



27,912 



26,062 

 25, 246 



2531 

 230^ 

 179 



Feet. 

 19,664,124 



18,789,422 

 11,848,857 



118 

 113 

 141 



Feet. 

 705 

 721 

 469 



Feet. 

 83,679 



No. 2 



81,692 

 66,220 



No.3 







Total 



79,220 



662f 



50,302,403 



372 



620 



231,591 







Feet. 



Average length of logs 51 



Average number of logs per yarder per day 119 



Average output per yarder per day 77, 197 



(2) The labor cost of transporting the logs from the stump to 

 the cars, practically all single-hauling, at a camp on the flat to the 

 west of the Cascades in Washington in 1912, amounted to $0,965 per 

 thousand feet. It includes the cost of yarding, moving donkeys, 

 changing lines, raising gin poles, loading, and laying and lifting 

 spur railroad track. It is unusual to segregate the cost of laying 

 and lifting track in this way. A gin pole was used in loading, the 

 power being furnished by a drum on the yarder. The following 

 gives the yarding and loading crew : 



Wages per day. 



Hook tender $4.50 to $5.00 



Rigging slinger . 4.00 to 4.50 



2 choker men 3.00 to 3.25 



Sniper 3.00 to 3.25 



Knotter 2.75 to 3.00 



2 swampers 2.75 to 3.00 



Signalman 2.50 to 2.75 



Chaser 3.00 to 3.25 



Engineer 3.50 to 3.75 



Fireman 2.50 to 2.75 



Wood buck 2.50 to 2.75 



Drum tender 3.00 to 3.25 



Head loader 4.00 to 4.50 



1 second loader 3.00 to 3.25 



Section hands 2.50 to 2.75 



The ground was practically level, never steep enough to cause the 

 logs to run, quite free of ravines and pot holes, with little brush 

 or down timber. It was seldom necessary to yard the logs more 

 than 800 feet — the average maximum yarding distance being about 

 650 feet. 



The timber, which was cutting out from 85,000 to 90,000 feet per 

 acre, was second growth, dense, of good height, averaging about 30 



