AMERICAN FORESTRY'S ADVERTISERS 



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"TIM" 



Tm/9H9FTED" 

 HE KNOW/ 



Copyright 1916 

 Xat. Lbr. Mfr.'s Ass'n. 



''TIM-BER" 



says: 



"THIS TALK about timber being too high priced to 

 build with is all moonshine. Here's the Government 

 report upon the average F. O. B. mill values per M feet of 

 the principal kinds of lumber produced in 1906 and 1915: 



SOFTWOODS 



Yellow pine . 

 Douglas fir 

 White pine . 

 Hemlock . 

 Western pine 



Average Values per M 

 1915 1906 



$12.50 — $15.02 



10.50 — 14.20 



18.00 — 18.32 



13.00^ 15.31 



14.50 — 14.01 



HARDWOODS 



Oak . . . 



Maple . . . 

 Yellow poplar 

 Red Gum . , 

 Chestnut 



Average Values per M 



Spruce . 

 Cypress . 

 Redwood 

 Cedar 

 Larch . 

 White fir 



16.50 

 20.00 

 13-50 

 15-50 

 11.00 

 11.00 



17-33 

 21.94 

 16.64 

 18.12 

 II. 91 

 12.91 



Birch . 

 Beech 

 Basswood 

 Hickory . 

 Elm . . 



Ash . . 

 Cottonwood 

 Tupelo. . 



1915 



$19.00 



15.00 — 



22.50 



12.50 — 

 16.00 — 



16.50 — 

 14.00 — 



19.00 



23-50 — 



17.00 



22.50 

 17-50 

 12.00 



1906 

 521.76 



15.53 

 24.21 

 13.46 

 17.49 



17.24 

 14.05 

 18.66 

 30.42 

 18.08 



24-35 

 17-15 

 14-13 



" Compare these figures with the advances in the prices of food, clothing, 



and other materials during the last lo years that your own pocket book 



has made you personally aware of, and then tell us honestly if there's 



anything to this talk about the high price of lumber." 



WHATEVER may be your problem in the use of wood, we are pre- 

 pared to help you. ASK US. 



The National Lumber Manufacturers Association 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Subscribing Associations are: California Redwood, California White and Sugar 

 Pine, Georgia-Florida Sawmill, Hardwood Manufacturers of the United States, 

 Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers, North Carolina Pine, Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Manufacturers, Northern Pine Manufacturers, Southern Cypress Manu- 

 facturers, Southern Pine, West Coast Lumbermens, Western Pine Manufacturers. 



SERVICE DEPARTMENTS 



The Trade Extension Department of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association 

 offers a unique free service to Architects. Engineers, Retailers and Builders. The Blue 

 Book of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association gives prompt and reliable credit 

 rating and collection service. The Inter-Insurance Exchange of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers Association furnishes sound indemnity for losses by fire in saw-mills, 

 planing mills and lumber yards. 



Next month "TIM-BER" will tell "Why Wood is Best" 



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