FOREST commissioner's REPORT. 



Record of Logs Scaled on Dead River from 18S6 to 1894 by Isaac Morse, Esq., 



OF Skowhegan. 



o 



Spruce. 





oi 



Cedar. 





o 



en 



Hemlock. 



1886.. 

 1888.. 

 1889.. 

 1890.. 

 1891 . 

 1892.. 

 1893.. 

 1894.. 



Total 



Average pei' stick 



102,176 



141,147 



79,606 



91,258 



90,.373 



84,018 



208,064 



115,645 



912,387 



Spruce . . 



Pine 



Cedar 



Heinlock . 



Total . 



128,163,,596 



13,476,672 



19,.570,851 



371.513 



161,582,632 



159,738 



168,770 

 43,005 



371,513 

 135 



79.3% 

 8.4 

 12.1 

 .2 



Cost of Logs and Facts about Pulp and Paper Manufacture on the 



Kennebec River. 



Facts uuder this head have not beea systematically collected. The 

 following derived from the statements of a representative concern will 

 be of value for their own sake and in connection with some of the ideas 

 advanced in this report. The date of gainiug this information was 

 December 1895. 



The price of stumpage on pulp logs is $1.25 to .$1.50 per thousand full 

 scale. (Standard sturapage price for saw logs is about $2.) Cost of cut- 

 ting and hauling to water $4.75 to $6. Logs cost usually from $7.50 to 

 $8 full scale delivered at the mill. 



A thousand feet of logs full scale will average about one and five-eighths 

 cords. It will make about 3,413 pounds of ground pulp. The labor cost 

 for manufacturing is about $3.07 per ton, including machinists, etc. 



A first-class pulp mill plant making 40 to 50 tons of pulp per day might 

 cost complete, including development of power, $200,000 to $250,000. It 

 requires about 75 men to operate it, excluding work about booms and 

 log piles. A plant to manufacture 40 to 50 tons of paper per day would 

 require from $350,000 to $400,000. It would require 175 to 200 hands all 

 the year round to run it. Such a plant means the consumption of about 

 7 millions of spruce per year. 



