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BULLETIN 111, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



Table 35. — Rates for towing Douglas fir logs on the Columbia River, 1915. 



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Portland 



so. 50 



SO. 50 



$0.50 

 .50 



SO. 50 

 .50 



SO. 55 

 .55 



$0.60 

 .60 

 .45 



$0.65 

 .65 

 .50 



$0.65 

 .65 

 .50 



so. 85 

 .85 

 .70 



so. 00 

 .90 

 .75 









Vancouver 









St. Helens 



1 









Kalama 



.60 

 .60 

 .60 

 .70 



.55 

 .55 

 .oo 

 .60 



.25 

 .25 

 .25 

 .35 







$0.25 

 .25 

 .25 

 .35 







"Rainier . 





















Prescott 

















$6."20" 





Westport 















. 75 



so. 25 



















Note. — These rates apply to tows of 200,000 feet or more, 

 considered as containing 200.000 feet. 



Tows of less volume are 



The rates for towing cedar, cottonwood, and hemlock on the Co- 

 himbia River are 10 cents higher than the rates on Douglas fir logs. 

 When cedar, cottonwood, or hemlock tows contain less than 200,000 

 feet the rates applying to Douglas fir tows are increased as follows : 



Less than 50.000 feet, 50 cents extra. 

 From 50,000 to 100,000 feet, 40 cents extra. 

 From 100.000 to 1.50.000 feet, 35 cents extra. 

 From 150,000 to 200,000 feet, 25 cents extra. 



The rate for returning boom sticks from Portland to Gravs Har- 

 bor and Youngs Bay is 75 cents per stick; from all other points, 50 

 cents. 



On Grays Harbor the towage rates from the booms to the mills at 

 Hoquiam, Aberdeen, and Cosmopolis, including the use of the sticks 

 for rafts, range from 10 to 30 cents per thousand feet. For ex- 

 ample, the rate from the boom at the mouth of the Humptulips 

 Eiver to Hoquiam and Aberdeen is 25 cents per thousand feet, and 

 from the same point to Cosmopolis it is 30 cents per thousand feet. 

 From the boom at the mouth of the Wishkah Eiver to the nearest 

 mills the rate is 10 cents per thousand feet, and from the same point 

 to the most distant mills at Hoquiam the rate is 20 cents. 



Starting with 1894, several rafts of logs have- been towed each 

 year from the Columbia River to southern California. These ocean- 

 going rafts contain from 4.000,000 to 5,000,000 feet of timber, or 

 approximately 10,000 piles. They are built cigar-shaped, generally 

 about 900 feet long and from 50 to 60 feet wide, and draw about 24 

 feet of water, with 12 feet above the surface. 



GENERAL EXPENSES. 



Operators find " General expenses " a convenient term to designate 

 costs which are not related to any distinct step in the logging opera- 



