CAMPS 65 
Stables (2) 40 by 40 feet 
Storehouse 16 bj- 16 feet 
Blacksmith shop 27 by 27 feet 
Storage cellar 8 by 12 feet 
Sled storehouse 10 by 15 feet 
Although there is variation in the area of the ground floor of 
all buildings used in northern camps, an average of several 
gives from 65 to 80 square feet per man. The construction of 
such camps requires one day's manual labor for each 15 square 
feet of floor space and one day's horse labor for each 100 square 
feet of floor space. 
In some parts of the North, especially where logging railroads 
are used or where lumber can easily be secured, log buildings have 
been replaced by board camps covered with tar paper. Buildings 
of this character are torn down when a camp site is abandoned 
and the lumber is used for buildings on a new site. 
Portable-house Camps. — The buildings are used indefinitely 
and are moved from place to place as logging progresses, being 
placed on skids along the main line or a spur of the logging rail- 
road. Two or three buildings grouped together may form a 
dwelling for a family, or singly they may be fitted up as bunk 
houses to shelter two or more men. Large camps in the South 
may have 100 or more houses and shelter from 200 to 400 persons, 
of whom only 30 to 50 per cent may be laborers in the employ of 
the logging company. 
Camps of this character constitute small villages which have a 
school and church, and sometimes a Y. M. C. A., for the benefit 
of the loggers and their families. Other buildings include quarters 
for the superintendent, sometimes a boarding-house for single 
men, barns for the stock, a machine shop, storage houses, coal 
supply bins for the locomotives and a commissary or store. The 
store is an important feature in isolated camps for not only the 
families in camp but also many of the local inhabitants secure 
their supplies from this source. Stores of this character often 
carry a large stock of goods and sell, monthly, several thousand 
dollars' worth of merchandise, groceries and feed. 
When families do not live in camps the number of buildings 
is limited and may include, besides the bunk houses, an office 
and a cook shanty. The latter because of its large size frequently 
is not portable. A small "van" is maintained from which the 
