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Table 35. — Rates for towing Douglas fir logs or. the Columbia River. 1915. 
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KJ feet 35 cents extra. 
X) feet. 25 cents extra. 
The rates for to whig cedar, eottonwood, and hemlock on the C:- 
lumlh River are 10 cents higher than the rates on Douglas fir logs. 
When cedar, eottonwood. or hemlock tows contain less than _ . '. 
feet the rates applying :■: Douglas fir tows are increased as follows: 
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The rate for returning loom sticks from Porflan 1 fcc Gravs Har- 
bor and Youngs Bay i 7" ::7- ; r stick; from all other points. 
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. Grays Harbor the towage rates from the booms to the mills at 
Hcntham. Aberdeen, and Cosmopolis. including the \>e <:t the -thhts 
for raft-, range from 10 to 30 cents per thousand feet. For ex- 
ample, the rate from the boom at the mouth of the Hmnptulips 
River to Hoquiam and Aberdeen is i " cents per thonsan I fe t, and 
from the same point t Cosmopolis it is 30 cents per thousand feet. 
From the boom at the mouth of the Wishkah River to the nearest 
mills the rate is 1C cents per thousand feet, and from the same point 
to the most distant mills at Hoquiam the rate is 20 cents. 
Starting with 1591. several rafts of logs hare been towed each 
year from the Columbia River to southern California. These uean- 
going rafts contain from 4,000,000 tc 5,000,000 feet of timber, or 
approximately 10.000 r-- e ~' They are ' uilt cigar-shaped, generally 
about 90( feet long and from 50 to 6C feet wide, and draw about 24 
t water, with 12 feet above the surface. 
GENERAL EXPENSES. 
Operators find "General expenses " a convenient term to designate 
sts h are not related to any distinct step in the logging opera- 
