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LOGGING 
based on the establishment of a monthly (26 days) base output 
for each yarding crew, for which a guaranteed wage is paid. The 
crew then receive a bonus, per thousand board feet, for each 50,000 
board feet logged over and above the base during the 26-day period. 
This bonus is distributed among the members of the yarding 
crew in the proportion that each worker's guaranteed wage bears 
to the guaranteed wage of the entire crew. In some cases the 
bonus takes the form of payment of so many cents per thousand 
feet, log scale. The general scheme of distribution is shown in 
the following table: 
BROWN'S BAY BONUS SYSTEM^ 
(Yarding Crew of 14 men.) 
Total 
bonus at 
75c per M 
Total 
Cost per 
M incl. 
bonus 
5 men at 
2 men at 
4 men at 
1 man at 
2 men at 
Per mo. 
monthly 
$2.25 per 
$2.50 per 
$2.75 per 
$3.00 per 
$3.50 per 
of 26 days 
pay of 
crew incl. 
day, 6 
per cent 
day, 6i 
per cent 
day. 7i 
per cent 
day, 8 
per cent 
day, 9^ 
per cent 
800 M 
$968 50 
$1 210 
850 M 
$37 50 
1006 00 
1 183 
$2 25^ 
$2 44 
$2.81 
$3.00 
S3 56 
900 M 
75 00 
1043 50 
1 159 
4 50 
4.88 
5.62 
6 00 
7.12 
950 M 
112.. 50 
1081.00 
1 138 
6 75 
7.32 
8 43 
9.00 
10.68 
1000 M 
150.00 
1118.50 
1.118 
9 00 
9.76 
11.24 
12.00 
14.24 
' If the guaranteed work of the crew of 14 men for a twenty-six-day period and an 800,000 board 
foot ba.se is $968.50, then the wage of a man receiving $2.25 per day is 6 per cent; that of one receiv- 
ing $2.50 per day 65 per cent. 
2 This represents the bonus for the twenty-six-day period to which a workman receiving $2.25 
per day was entitled. 
The criticism of this system is that it applies only to a portion 
of the logging crew, although in practice the greater efficiency 
secured from the yarding crew and the efforts made by them to 
earn a bonus affected nearly every man in the camp. Cooks 
have more lunches to put up, pump men must put in extra hours, 
and train crews are called on to handle additional tonnage. This 
method of applying a bonus is also subject to criticism unless 
the base is changed for each new set of conditions, because the 
topography, stand of timber, and general operating conditions 
often vary widely in different logging "chances," and a crew 
might find it difficult to log even the base if adverse conditions 
were encountered on a given "show." This difficuhy has been 
overcome bj'- a modification of this system, introduced by some 
western operators, in which a standard output, or base, is deter- 
mined for each rollway which is logged. Each "show" is ex- 
