. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Tank Sleds stall the sleigh hoist mentioned. Several places on the smaller haul- ing roads would need a tow team. The main road, three and one- half miles long and forty feet wide, required seventeen men, three weeks to build. With the use of a team needed part of the time this would involve a cost of nearly $200 per mile. This was on level ground, in small timber and requiring no rock cuts; the other roads, on which I could get no definite information, probably cost
. Canadian forest industries 1911. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Tank Sleds stall the sleigh hoist mentioned. Several places on the smaller haul- ing roads would need a tow team. The main road, three and one- half miles long and forty feet wide, required seventeen men, three weeks to build. With the use of a team needed part of the time this would involve a cost of nearly $200 per mile. This was on level ground, in small timber and requiring no rock cuts; the other roads, on which I could get no definite information, probably cost two to three times as much. A method used in leveling the main road was to divert a small creek nearby into the hollow places and allowing it to freeze, which besides leveling the road iced it as well. Where the fills were too large to be filled in with earth they were corduroyed or even a crib work with stringers and flatted cross pieces were used. Birch, ash, poplar, and maple were used for this. Grades as long as they were in the right direction were of no objection except in so far as they had to be sanded. The worst grades would run as high as fifteen per cent. A crew of eight to ten "road monkeys" are kept busy during the hauling season repairing bad spots, besides the sprinkler crew. They try to cover the roads once a day with the sprinkler and in daylight if possible, but owing to the weather very often it becomes necessary to put on a night crew as well. Felling The cutting was done by eight crews of three men each, a notcher and two sawyers. Notcher $32 a month; sawyers $30 a month. The equipment of a felling crew consisted of one poll axe, one six-foot Simond's saw, a pair of felling wedges, a three-pound sledge, and a pole 8 feet 3 inches long. Cost, \yedges, $ per pair; sledges, $6 per dozen; axe handles, $5 per dozen; axe heads, $8 per dozen; saw, $ each. For log making most of the notchers preferred the poll axe, as they claimed it didn't catch
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