. Canadian forest industries January-June 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. W. F. V. Atkinson Dryden, Ont. Among other practical benefits obtained from recent conventions of lumbermen, foresters and pap- er makers are suggestions regard- ing ways and means of reducing logging costs. A well-known official of a large paper company recently stated that while progress was continu- ally being made in methods of manufacture of paper and in saw- milling, nothing had been done to improve logging methods dur- ing the last fifty years. Is
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1922. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. W. F. V. Atkinson Dryden, Ont. Among other practical benefits obtained from recent conventions of lumbermen, foresters and pap- er makers are suggestions regard- ing ways and means of reducing logging costs. A well-known official of a large paper company recently stated that while progress was continu- ally being made in methods of manufacture of paper and in saw- milling, nothing had been done to improve logging methods dur- ing the last fifty years. Is this true? If not, it is, at least, a reason to throw some light on the subject and was probably sug- gested by noting the increased cost of logging without personal experience of any great length in this country. What are the facts? A close inspection and experience of job- bers and of company camps in many parts of Canada and in the border states, under very varied conditions and climate, shows that very great changes have been made in camps, equipment and methods. Were it not so, the present cost of logging would be much higher than it now is. This is obvious when it is known that wages are higher, skilled woodsmen are scarce and the logs or wood are brought great distances and from rougher districts, being cut sometimes two or more years before they reach the mills. The old style ox-team, the single horse, the single ten foot wooden sleigh with runners unshod and six inches wide,—the "chienne" or hand log sleigh, the snow roads, the drag chain, axe felling, and topping," etc., may be contrasted with the modern snow- ploughs and rutters, sprinklers, cable brakes, hoists, jammers, log sleighs with twelve-foot bunks and trip stakes, as well as the Western high lead cable and steam -logging railroad; the old maple pry which the "peavie" replaced on the drive; the uses of dynamite that the old black powder could not .fill. Yes, changes and improvements
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