158 REDWOOD FORESTS OF THE PACIFIC COAST 



of a street-car line, except that the cable is on the surface in- 

 stead of below it. This cable is fastened to the leading log of 

 the train, the engine is started, and the train moves railroad- 

 ward. Just in advance of the train walks a man with a bucket 

 with which he dips water from tubs along the road and wets the 

 track. Arrived at the end of the railroad, a third engine is put 

 to use in loading the logs on the railroad trucks by the use of 

 wire cables. Here the logs are scaled and measurements re- 



A TKAIX LOAD OF LOGS 



corded. When the train is loaded it is hauled down to the mill 

 and the logs dumped into the water, there to lie until their turn 

 comes for conversion into lumber. 



The work in the woods is hard. Although every device is 

 used to reduce manual labor, there remains sufficient to make 

 this one of the most wearing of physical occupations, and it is 

 said that .few men can stand the strain for any great period. 

 The work is also extremely dirty, owing to the burning, so that 

 the men look like stokers. Naturally, this work commands high 

 pay, and with high pay a superior class of men, both physically 

 and mentally, are obtained. I took dinner one day in a. camp 



