Identifier: lumberinginsugar440berr (find matches)
Title: Lumbering in the sugar and yellow pine region of California
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Berry, Swift
Subjects: Lumbering Sugar pine Yellow pines
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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F-1595T-A Fig. 2.—Typical Portable Logging Camp on a California Pine Donkey Logging Operation. Bui. 440, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate II.
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Felling a Large Yellow Pine Tree in a Mixed Stand of Sugar and YellowPine on a National Forest Timber Sale Area. LUMBERING IN PINE REGION OF CALIFORNIA. 9 1,600 feet of lumber and cost from $60 to $70 each. If double-boarded throughout, the cost is probably from $90 to $100. Eachaccommodates four men in single bimks, or preferably in steel cots,and provides about 500 cubic feet of air space per man. There isalso room for a stove and usually a small table. In some campsonly three men are assigned to a cab hi, which leaves room for alarge table. The use of dining cars and bunk cars is limited to afew camps, but will probably increase. For railroad constructioncamps and camps at a distance from the railroad, and sometimesfor stables and dining rooms at portable camps, tents are frequentlyused. They can be taken down and stored during the winter. Ifcared for, a good tent should last three or four seasons. When it is desired to move to a new site, the cabins are loaded onflat cars by means

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