Usually the camp would be built by the side of a brook. That's how they'd get the water. If you had thirty or forty men, you'd have a cook and a helper. The helper cut firewood for the stove, cut it up in stove lengths and hauled water.

Anything you wanted such as tobacco and clothes, or anything like that you had to buy separately. They had what they called a van. It was a little room where you could buy stuff.

Breakfast was beans, bread and tea. You'd have to take a lunch. It depended on the distance you had to walk. Sometimes you took beans, or salt beef and bread. They had that cooked. Some boiled the kettle, and have tea and sugar and that sort of thing. Any brook you'd drink out of it. Or any hole with water anywhere, you would drink out of it.

We had a bucksaw and one axe each. They were coming in with the smaller blades, about one inch wide. Before that, they used the Simon saw, or cross-cut saw, the two-handers. It depended on the type of wood you had but we usually cut around three cords a day. Our pay was around $2.50 or $2.60 a cord. That was just before the Depression. Then it dropped down to a dollar a cord.

Our board cost sixty cents a day.

You'd get up at six o'clock. Breakfast was at seven o'clock to be ready to go in the woods by eight. You'd work until seven or eight o'clock at night.

Sometimes, on Sundays, we would play horseshoes or more or less lie around. You might go up the brook for fishing, trouting, or something like that to pass away the day.