. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. LOGGING IIT THE DOUGLAS FIR EEGION. 27 Item 4 includes the labor cost of train crews. Conunon carrier railroads are used more in the Puget Sound region than in the Columbia River region, which explains the lower cost in the former case. The loggers in the Grays Harbor and Willapa Harbor regions do not use the railroad so extensively as the loggers in the Puget Sound and Coliunbia River regions, the two former relying more on roading and river driving, which explains the lower cost , , , , , r , Item 5 is an average of
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. LOGGING IIT THE DOUGLAS FIR EEGION. 27 Item 4 includes the labor cost of train crews. Conunon carrier railroads are used more in the Puget Sound region than in the Columbia River region, which explains the lower cost in the former case. The loggers in the Grays Harbor and Willapa Harbor regions do not use the railroad so extensively as the loggers in the Puget Sound and Coliunbia River regions, the two former relying more on roading and river driving, which explains the lower cost , , , , , r , Item 5 is an average of the labor cost at those camps which do this work by day labor, also those that do it by contract; the contract rates in some cases only include labor, in others the total cost of the work. The cost in the Puget Sound, Grays Harbor, and Willapa Harbor regions includes more contract work than in the Columbia River region, which explains the lower cost in the latter case. Item 6 includes the cost of supplies and maintenance (labor and material) of the railroad, dump, and boom. The cost is highest in the Columbia River region. This is because railroads owned by operators are longer in this region than in the other three. Also less contract dumping, sorting, and rafting is done there. The next higher cost is found in the Puget Sound region. This is largely because the loggers operate railroads much more extensively in this region than in the Grays Harbor and WiUapa Harbor regions. Items 7, 8, 9, and 14. Reasons for seeming discrepancies are brought out in the notes on items 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Item 15 includes the salaries of superintendents or managers, bookkeepers, etc., at the main office, which is detached from the woods; also fixed sums paid to individuals or companies for selling the logs. The cost of camp foremen, bookkeepers, timekeepers, scalers, etc., is prorated against the major steps in the logging operation proper. The camps of the Puget Sound and Columbia River regions
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