. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. The cost of labor, food, material brought in, and allowing for the use of the tools in camp building would be between $2,500 to $2,700. Cooking Outfit In the cookery were two six-holed ranges made by Butterworth of Ottawa, while the heaters were all of sheet iron with cast ends. Furniture was an unknown quantity except for the benches in the cookery and a few chairs in the office. For bedding, each two men were allowed three pair of blankets and an empty tick which th
. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. The cost of labor, food, material brought in, and allowing for the use of the tools in camp building would be between $2,500 to $2,700. Cooking Outfit In the cookery were two six-holed ranges made by Butterworth of Ottawa, while the heaters were all of sheet iron with cast ends. Furniture was an unknown quantity except for the benches in the cookery and a few chairs in the office. For bedding, each two men were allowed three pair of blankets and an empty tick which they filled themselves with hay or hemlock sprouts. Bedding cost $820. Food The food supplied was plain but of good quality. The staple articles were salt pork, fresh beef, potatoes, beans, turnips, carrots, bread, cakes,, pies, cookies, doughnuts, etc. The cook tried to run things so as to keep the cost per man per day below 60 cents, and on the average 50 cents per man per day would cover it. The proverb- ial salt pork was largely replaced by the fresh beef brought in, about 1,700 lbs. of this being used a month. The toting was managed on the following system: About one and one-half miles out of D. the company has what it calls headquarters. The toting teams load up at D. from the storehouse and drive as far as the headquarters, where they remain for the night. Taking an early start in the morning the teams land their loads at a second storehouse on the mam tote road and about one mile from the nearest camp. After lunch here, the teams return to D. and then to headquarters as before. From this second storehouse the supplies are taken in by team from the different camps. The system allows of all the men and horses being in their own quarters each night. The number of teams hauling vary greatly, there being in the fall about twelve toting to the storehouse. and on an average of two from each camp, while in the winter this number is cut in about half. In the fall the average load
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