216 BULLETIN 711. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The regular machine and blacksmith crew consisted of thi fol- 
lowing : 
Per day. 
Blacksmith S5. 00 
Blacksmiths' helper 3. 50 
Machinist 5. 25 
Machinist's helper- : 3. 25 
Car tinkerer 3. 25 
Carpenter 3. 50 
Second carpenter 3. 00 
Rigging man 3. 40 
This crew, in addition to repairing the locomotives, flat cars, and 
trucks, made the repairs on the logging equipment, the labor cost 
of which was SO. 077 per thousand feet. 
Case 3. — Cost of railroad transportation. 
I Cost per 
Items. thousand 
feet. 
_____ ! 
Operation (labor) $0. 12 
Maintenance of trucks (labor) . 01S 
Maintenance of locomotive (labor) .01 
Spur construction and maintenance (labor) . 262 
Maintenance of trucks (labor, repair parts, and materials) .02 
Maintenance of locomotive (labor, repair parts, and materials) .015 
Fuel wood .05 
Oil, waste, grease, and packing .01 
Depreciation on equipment and track supplies .14 
Miscellaneous * .03 
Los freight 1. 25 
Total I 1,925 
In this case it was possible to locate the railroads practically any 
place without encountering heavy grades, since the ground for the 
most part is relatively level. The spur lines were ballasted and kept 
in good alignment. 
The company had been operating about 3 years and at the time 
the above costs were secured had a cut of about 7 years ahead. 
The year's output on which these costs are based amounted to 
50.000.000 feet. 
(a) Operation (labor) : This segregation includes the cost of op- 
erating a 52-ton geared locomotive on the spur lines, hauling the 
logs from the landings to a siding at the camp. The logging engines 
were working. on two spurs: one about 1 mile from camp, the other 
two about 2 mile; from camp. To take care of the output of the 
camp, which was about 240,000 feet per day. it was necessary for 
train crew to work overtime. The logs were hauled from camp 
to Puget Sound, a distance of about 12 miles, by contract, at a rate 
125 per thousand feet This rate included the cost of dumping, 
sorting, and rafting. The train crew consisted of the following: 
