. Lumbering in the sugar and yellow pine region of California . ervals of from one to threeseasons. For this reason the portable camp is supplanting the oldstyle permanent type which was torn down or abandoned at everymove. The old type consisted of large bunk houses, with doubletiers of bunks down the sides. The initial cost of such camps islow, but they can not be moved or kept free from vermin, and themen dislike them. The portable camp is practically uniform throughout the sleeping quarters are frame cabins 10 by IS feet or 9 by 22 feet,the former being the usual type on standar
. Lumbering in the sugar and yellow pine region of California . ervals of from one to threeseasons. For this reason the portable camp is supplanting the oldstyle permanent type which was torn down or abandoned at everymove. The old type consisted of large bunk houses, with doubletiers of bunks down the sides. The initial cost of such camps islow, but they can not be moved or kept free from vermin, and themen dislike them. The portable camp is practically uniform throughout the sleeping quarters are frame cabins 10 by IS feet or 9 by 22 feet,the former being the usual type on standard gauge operations andthe latter on narrow gauge. The sides of these cabins are ordinarily7 or 7+ feet and the roof half pitch. Low-grade lumber is used intheir construction. The walls are battened and the roofs double-boarded or coA^ered with tar paper. Two skid timbers about 8 by 10inches are placed lengthwise under each cabin to serve as a founda-tion and to facilitate moving. Cabins of this kind contain about Bui. 440, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate Fig. 1 .—Excellent Virgin Stand of Sugar and Yellow Pine in theSierra Nevadas of
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