. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 48 CANADA LUMBERMAN about fifteen per cent, of the necessary raw material, or approximately seven hundred thousand feet (Doyle scale). Including the cook, and his helper, the crew averaged about twenty-two men. The average wage scale during the summer of 1920 ran as high as seventy-five dollars a month, but in the fall was down to sixty. After the new year it was reduced to forty-five. Exceptions to the regular rates were the foreman, blacksmith, cook an
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. 48 CANADA LUMBERMAN about fifteen per cent, of the necessary raw material, or approximately seven hundred thousand feet (Doyle scale). Including the cook, and his helper, the crew averaged about twenty-two men. The average wage scale during the summer of 1920 ran as high as seventy-five dollars a month, but in the fall was down to sixty. After the new year it was reduced to forty-five. Exceptions to the regular rates were the foreman, blacksmith, cook and cookee, who made one hundred dollars, eighty-five dollars, ninety and fifty dollars, respectively, when the maximum wage for woods labor was seventy-five dollars. The cruising, which is done by the executives of the firm along with the woods foreman, takes the form of a general reconnaisance. The boundaries of the tract are first located, and used as base A stand of hemlock on Malloy & Bryans' limits in Haliburton County, Ont. The different types were noted and their extent estimated, so that a general idea of the stumpage is reached. This determines wnetner or not the offer to purchase will be made. For such a trip, blankets are required and provisions for about four days. A one thousand-acre block is thus cruised at a cost of about ten cents per acre. " Location and Construction of Camp The location of the camp visited was chosen because it combined several advantages. It was on a municipal road, over which, with little repair, cadging (toting) could be done, and at the same time on the shore of a lake from which good drinking water was obtain- able. The site under consideration was well drained and sheltered, and also adjacent to the main haul road as well as to the timber to be cut. In this district a thousand acres is the usual area logged from one camp on account of the system of leasing limits in blocks of this size. The camp clearing is somewhat over
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