LOGGING IN" THE DOUGLAS FIR 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. 1 
27,912 
26,062 
25,246 
253J 
230i 
179 
Feet. 
19, 664, 124 
18, 789, 422 
11,848,857 
118 
113 
141 
Feet. 
705 
721 
469 
Feet. 
83,679 
81,692 
66, 220 
No. 2 
No. 3 
Total 
79, 220 
662| 
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 2.5Q 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 
