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BULLETIN 711, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
for logs 42 to 60 feet in length ; 35 cents per thousand feet extra for 
logs over 60 feet in length. The company reserves the right to base 
its charges on the mill scale or its own scale at the boom. Upon 
receipt of logs in the boom the company proceeds to raft them with- 
out unreasonable delay. As soon as a raft is ready for delivery and 
in absence of instructions from the owners as to its disposition, the 
company reserves the right, after giving five days' notice, to store 
the logs and to charge 10 cents per thousand feet for each thirty 
days Or any fraction thereof. When logs are stored an additional 
charge of 25 cents per thousand feet is made for rafting and deliver- 
ing the logs to the storage grounds. The company operating at the 
mouth of the Wishkah Eiver charges the following rates: For 
catching, sorting, and delivering at its boom in suitable sticks fur- 
nished by the owners of the logs, 40 cents per thousand feet for all 
logs and other timber products under 40 feet in length; 15 cents 
per thousand feet extra for logs 42 to 60 feet in length ; 35 cents per 
thousand feet extra for logs over 60 feet in length. The storage 
charge is 25 cents per thousand feet for the first month and 10 
cents per thousand feet for each additional month. This charge in- 
cludes the cost of delivering the logs to storage. 
Logging operators frequently contract the sorting and rafting. In 
one case the operator paid the contractor $1 per car for unloading, 
sorting, and rafting. This is at the rate of about 13 cents per 
thousand feet. The contractor only furnishes the operating labor, 
the dump and booming grounds being kept in repair by the logging 
operator. 
The labor cost of sorting and rafting, where it is done by logging 
operators, ranges from 6 to 17 cents per thousand feet of output. In 
the case of 18 operations in the Puget Sound region the following 
range of labor costs was found : 
Number of camps. 
Labor cost 
per thousand 
feet. 
3 
Cents. 
6 to 8 
9 to 10 
6 
13 to 15 
2 
16 to 17 
In the case of 8 operations in the Columbia Eiver region the fol- 
lowing range of labor costs was found : 
Number of camps. 
Labor cost 
per thousand 
feet. 
6 
Cents. 
8 to 10 
12 to 11 
2 
