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BULLETIN 711, U. S, DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



for logs 42 to 60 feet in length ; 35 cents per thousand feet extra for 

 logs over 60 feet in length. The company reserves the right to base 

 its charges on the mill scale or its own scale at the boom. Upon 

 receipt of logs in the boom the company proceeds to raft them with- 

 out unreasonable delay. As soon as a raft is ready for delivery and 

 in absence of instructions from the owners as to its disposition, the 

 compan}' reserves the rigkt, after giving five days' notice, to store 

 the logs and to charge 10 cents per thousand feet for each thirty 

 days or any fraction thereof. When logs are stored an additional 

 charge of 25 cents per thousand feet is made for rafting and deliver- 

 ing the logs to the storage grounds. The company operating at the 

 mouth of the Wishkah River charges the following rates: For 

 catching, sorting, and delivering at its boom in suitable sticks fur- 

 nished by the owners of the logs, 40 cents per thousand feet for all 

 logs and other timber products under 40 feet in length; 15 cents 

 per thousand feet extra for logs 42 to 60 feet in length ; 35 cents per 

 thousand feet extra for logs over 60 feet in length. The storage 

 charge is 25 cents per thousand feet for the first month and 10 

 cents per thousand feet for each additional month. This charge in- 

 cludes the cost of delivering the logs to storage. 



Logging operators frequently contract the sorting and rafting. In 

 one case the operator paid the contractor $1 per car for unloading, 

 sorting, and rafting. This is at the rate of about 13 cents per 

 thousand feet. The contractor only furnishes the operating labor, 

 the dumjD and booming grounds being kept in repair by the logging 

 operator. 



The labor cost of sorting and rafting, where it is done by logging 

 operators, ranges from 6 to 17 cents per thousand feet of output. In 

 the case of 18 operations in the Puget Sound region the following 

 range of labor costs was found : 



Number of camps. 



Labor cost 

 per thousand 



feet. 



3 



Cents. 

 ~6to 8 



9 to 10 

 13 to 1.5 

 16 to 17 



7 



6 



2 







In the case of 8 operations in the Columbia River region the fol- 

 lowing range of labor costs was found : 



Number of camps. 



labor cost 



per thousand 



feet. 



6 



Cents. 

 8 to 10 

 12toH 



2 





