334 REPORT OF THE FORESTRY COMMITTEE 



APPENDIX 



A Preliminary Report on Efficiency in the Logging Industry in the 



Pacific Northwest 



By C. S. Martin 



IN presenting this report on methods tending to increase efficiency in the oper- 

 ations of the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest, we wish to make 

 very clear the fact that this is merely a beginning in the collection of data 

 which should ultimately prove of great value to the industry; to show that after 

 all the primary meaning of conservation is simply to utilize to the best economic 

 advantage our great national resources. 



The first step in this utilization is the elimination of waste. To eliminate 

 waste we must have efficiency. And to attain efficiency we must keep informed 

 as to the methods employed by the various companies engaged in the cutting, 

 manufacture, and marketing of timber. 



Each company attacking its own individual problems will gradually work out 

 improvements in methods and organization. How much sooner will these changes 

 be brought about if each year we could summarize the results of the thought and 

 effort of the thousands of men making a life problem of the successful handling 

 of forest products. 



It is not a new idea by any means. • Witness the growing success and impor- 

 tance of the Pacific Logging Congress, where yearly the loggers and machinery 

 men of the Northwest gather to discuss the problems and improvements of the 

 preceding year and make mutual suggestions for the further advance of new, 

 more or less untried, methods. 



Naturally in taking up this subject for your consideration there will be very 

 little ground to cover in the Pacific Northwest that has not been considered at 

 one time or another during the last four meetings of the Logging Congress. In 

 fact, a considerable amount of information was gained from the reports of the 

 proceedings of that body, and we wish to give proper credit to the Logging 

 Congress for this valuable and necessary information. 



I. Planning operation in advance. 



In comparatively few instances is there a definite budget for new work. 

 Cruisers report with rough maps; topographic maps of varying accuracy; and 

 the personal reports of logging superintendents or logging engineers, form the 

 usual basis for opening up new bodies of timber. 



The cruisers maps vary from very rough sketches showing little more than 

 the streams, roads, trails, etc., to well-executed topographic maps showing possible 

 railroad locations, giving aneroid readings along ridges and creek bottoms, and 

 suggesting the logical outlet for the timber. 



These maps are accompanied by reports. Some show merely the amount of 

 timber on the ground, making little efl^ort to classify it save as fir, cedar, hem- 

 lock, etc. The more detailed sheets require a careful classification 'of all timber 



