The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-02
Mason Co. Log Product in 1898,

Following is the detailed report of work done
Puget Sound & Gray's Harbor r. R., Mason
County, for the year 1893:
CAMP /
worked 101s months, employing So
to 60 men; product in feet 1S,1l2,956
Worked 7 months, employing IS
men; product s'Ss6'24z
4 months, IS men average, product S,sls,7s4
CAMP
months, so men average, product 11,253.Sl7
Total product 44,6S2, 2ss
Total number of logs about ipieceSl 5000
Total number of men EMPLOYED Ill the camps
Del day about 25e, when all are being operated
The teams and motive power used in making
this product, was as follows;
Camps 4 Each two horse teams OF span
each, or 20 horses two loading teams, horses;
2 line horses and two donkey engines. Total
horses in each camp, %.
Camps 3 4-Each one horse team, one bull
team and one donkey engine.
Total, donkey engines.
I" S0head of horses.
80 head of oxen.
R. R. produced in 1898, 44,00O, 900 feet of logs.
placing an average value of S. SO per NJ. would
aggregate about $245, 500. In 1892, the product
1891, 1884, 00, 900, valued at $4,000: Placing an
average value of $3.50 per thousand feet. is con :
sentative, because good proportion ct the pro-
$40 and upwards per thousand feet; good No. 1
logs from $4.5o to IS per thousand:
The logs are hauled to the landing booms on
Little Skookum Bay, by the P. s. & G. H. R. r..
and when the four camps are in operation the
road uses three locomotives and about one hun
dred logging trucks, employing nearly one hun.
dred men.
Only one of the camps worked the full year,
and no work was done in February of 1898, on
account of the snow. The camps are under con
tract and their full output is taken by the Port
lnl- nlx VI f1nyy or W MP SOI
G. Simpson, who is a veteran lumbermau, and
operates Oh an extensive scale.
WASHINGTON SOUTHERN RAILROAD,
SHELTON.
Three logging camps were operated on this
railroad during 1898, during which time the
road was under the control of a receiver.
Mason County Logging Company, with two
camps. operated months. employing about Is
| men and producing 1880, 900 feet of logs.
| Granger Lumber Company, one camp, averag.
ing So men. produced $4,000 feet Stopped
work August 18th.
Value Of product of the two Companies operat.
| ing on Washington Southern about $4,000.
| Product of road in 1892, &c, 100000 feet.
g :" " " 1891, 100000 feet.
SHELTON SOUTHWESTERN RY., SHELTON.
Two camps operated by Williamson Logging
Company. average s. men, months,
hauled, in feet H,7S8,6l0
Other Loggers on road 1889 1861
Total of R. R. [logsl 17,l3S,471
Piles to the value of 81 500 were also hauled
The cut of local mill owned by Company during
| 1893, of lumber was 799 ,742 feet.
HOOD CANAL.
sKoKoMIsH RIvER.-Jos: Doyle, with average
of II men, worked $3.50 days during 1898, pro
ducing $4,000 feet of logs. This was one Of
the best logging propositions on the Sound, a
| this small crew often producing more than 1OO'
feet per day to the man, and the average pc
man for the full time at work is shown to bt
about $50 feet This is rarely duplicated In sue
cessful logging, the conditions being a shor
haul, fine timber aud a willing crew,
Edward Simpson also produced about 3.00o. 00
feet; Benny Wiley, about 100000, all of thes
logs being safely doomed at the mouth of thu
skokomish River. Other loggers operating OF
Hoods Canal during the year, make the odtpu
tributary fully 1O,0000O feet. The product il
1892 was 100000 feet; in 1891, 100000.
Small loggers worked OH Big Skookum Bay
North Bay and Pickering Passage, but n,
figures are obtainabe from this source II
prior years this output ranged from to IL mil
lion feet, but was probably about ten million
feet in 1885, less than usual, because of the diff
Guilty of small loggers to run long or sell thei
product.
SUMMARY