SLEDS AND SLED-HAULING 167 
The right-of-way having boon blazed out by the camp fore- 
man, the "road-uioukeys/' as the men are called, proceed to 
fell a strip of timber from 20 to 30 feet wide along the proposed 
route. The merchantable timber is cut into saw logs which 
may be left at one side of the road, or skidded to the nearest 
skidway site. If the road is to have a snow bottom, the depressions 
are filled with rotten logs and sound non-merchantable species. 
The latter are also used for corduroy, bridge construction and skids. 
Large stumps are sawed level with the ground; boulders are 
removed or the road level around them raised by skids; and 
Fig. li. — A Two-sled Road, .showing the Method of building up tiie Grade 
on SHde Slopes. 
cuts are made to reduce heavy grades. Snow roads often pre- 
sent a rough appearance before snow falls, because of the uneven 
nature of the roadbed, but the first heavy snow fills the depres- 
sions and smoothes off the road making a solid bed over which 
the sleds may pass. 
Swamps containing live springs are a source of annoyance when 
the road must pass over them, because they are the last part of 
the road to freeze over in the fall and the first part to thaw in 
the early spring, and should be avoided when practicable. When 
the road crosses low marshy ground or swamps, corduroy is used 
which gives a broad bearing surface to the road and prevents 
