chain-tenders

Updated: May 17, 2025

A teamster, I was told, receives seventy dollars per month, a chopper fifty dollars, chain-tenders and jack-screw men the same, swampers forty-five dollars, sawyers forty dollars, and barkers, who are usually Indians, one dollar a day and board besides, for all.

Charles Nordhoff - Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands