Mr.Walter Rumbolt, a resident of Main Brook, and a former employee of Bowater Pulp and Paper Company worked in the early logging camps in Hare Bay. He started work in 1949 and continued to work there for a period of fifteen years. Recently I interview Mr. Rumbolt about his logging experience.

Melissa: What was your job or jobs?
Mr. Rumbolt: I cut wood, drove the tractors, and did some mechanic work.

Melissa: What were your approximate earnings?
Mr. Rumbolt: I earned about $208 to $308 a month. I worked ten hours a day, six days a week. I wasn’t paid for any overtime.

Melissa: What harvesting methods did you use?
Mr. Rumbolt: In the earlier days, the timber was cut with a bucksaw and pulled to the landing by horses. In was pulled to river with tractor, and was then driven by water down the river in a boom. Big barges would pick up the wood and bring it to Corner Brook to the mill

Melissa: How many workers stayed at one camp?
Mr. Rumbolt: Approximately forty workers plus a cook, bunkhouse man and a foreman and second hand.

Melissa: Describe to me size of the camps?
Mr. Rumbolt: The camps were thirty by sixty feet. A set of camps was two bunkhouses, a cook house, and a barn where they kept the horses.