. Seattle and the Orient. mber has averaged about 7,000,000feet per day. This product representsthe labor of one man in the woods,also one man in the mills for everythousand feet of sawed lumber. IN A WASHINGTON LOGGING CAMP, A lumberman from the East, sudden-ly transplanted to the depths of aWashington forest, would throw uphis hands, sorrowfully shake his headand loudly bewail his inability to suc-cesfully bring Che giant conifers to abed in the saline waters of PugetSound. And it is no small task that the lum-berman of the Coast undertakes, whenone considers the height and girth ofthe trees
. Seattle and the Orient. mber has averaged about 7,000,000feet per day. This product representsthe labor of one man in the woods,also one man in the mills for everythousand feet of sawed lumber. IN A WASHINGTON LOGGING CAMP, A lumberman from the East, sudden-ly transplanted to the depths of aWashington forest, would throw uphis hands, sorrowfully shake his headand loudly bewail his inability to suc-cesfully bring Che giant conifers to abed in the saline waters of PugetSound. And it is no small task that the lum-berman of the Coast undertakes, whenone considers the height and girth ofthe trees with which he must methods of logging, while un-excelled in their own territory, wouldbe worse than useless on the Coast,and many a logger from the white pinedistricts has found to his cost that theseemingly crude appliances in vogue inWashington are the only successfulmethods of operating in such mightytimber. It may be well to take a birds-eyeview of the work as carried on by the 44 SEATTLK AND THE hirgest concern in the PacificNorthwest, and it is not im-possible, the largest individualinstitution of the kind in theworld—that of the SimpsonLogging Company. The company maintains acorps of surveyors, who in ad-dition to their work of run-ning the lines of the tracts oftimber selected as the nextvictim of the woodmans axe,select and determine the routesfor the extensions of the loggingrailroads, estimate the cost ofbridges, fills and cuts and per-form the same duties as ofother railroad Ontheir report depends the loca-tion of the railroad and thescope of country which can beembraced by the proposedbranches. When the line of road hasbeen fully determined uponand the graders at work, thecamp foreman carefully tra-verses the ground and locatesthe site for the permanentcamp; having reference to itsaccessibility to the timber,water supply, etc. Formerlycamps were built of logs, butwith improved methods oftransportation which the log-ging railroad
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