. Canadian forest industries July-December 1917. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. South. In British Columbia James McNaughton used the first high lead at the camp of the Canadian Western Lumber Company, Comox, in 1913. During the past two years the system has spread to nearly every camp in the province. Operators welcomed it as a means of getting away from the difficulties of ground yarding, with its rocks and stumps, and roots and mud, and heavy rigging; without the great expense and cumbersomeness of the cableway skidder. As the use
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1917. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. South. In British Columbia James McNaughton used the first high lead at the camp of the Canadian Western Lumber Company, Comox, in 1913. During the past two years the system has spread to nearly every camp in the province. Operators welcomed it as a means of getting away from the difficulties of ground yarding, with its rocks and stumps, and roots and mud, and heavy rigging; without the great expense and cumbersomeness of the cableway skidder. As the use of the high lead spread the system rapidly became improved in its details by the logger and the equipment manufacturer. Special high speed engines were produced, special loading engines to care for the increased yarding capacity, and specially efficient blocks and other rigging. Until recently the yarding and loading has been carried on 1)} the same machine, or by a yarder and a loader operating as one unit, or as two units operating at the same time. Not long ago, however, one of the large B. C. companies made what seems to be a further improvement in the complete separation of the yarding and the load- ing. As this has proven very satisfactory, we will describe at length the operations of the International Timber Company, where it is used in order that loggers on the Coast may judge of the suitability of the system to their own operations. The International Timber Company operates on Vancouver Is- land, British Columbia, back of Campbell River. They own some thirty thousand acres, of which about twenty-five thousand acres are still uncut. The country is in general rolling, of a gravel formation, and of such nature that the logging spurs can generally be placed with regularity and within nine hundred feet of the stump. The timber is principally Douglas fir, averaging about 1,500 feet to the tree and 40,000 feet to the acre. By reason of the quality of the timber and market co
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