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small ranch is also operated on which a portion of their forage 

 and provisions is grown. For the above reasons it is believed 

 that of the $5,000.00 but $4,000.00 should be directly chargeable 

 to the tie operations. 



The expenses of the main office, such as salaries of bookkeeper 

 and stenographers, stationery and supplies, and office rent amount 

 to $9,000.00. The total annual charges against supervision ag- 

 gregate $13,000.00, or $0,043 per tie. 



Interest on Capital Involved. The entire 300,000 ties have, at 

 this point, cost the company about $0.33 per average tie. The 

 cost of the annual output is invested for at least six months. The 

 interest on $99,000.00 at 6% for six months is $2,970, or ap- 

 proximately $0.01 per tie. 



Stumpage. The timber from which the hewn ties are made 

 is valued at $2.50 per M. feet B. M. The original agreement be- 

 tween the U. S. Forest Service and the company under which 

 timber is being cut contained the following clause: 



"Hewn railroad ties without disqualifying defects whose 

 widest diameter inside the bark at the small end exceeds 12 

 inches will be scaled." 



In actual practice it was found that this would not work out 

 satisfactorily to all parties concerned. In the first place it was 

 impossible for the Forest Officer to be on the ground when all 

 ties over 11 inches by 8 inches were squared to those dimensions. 

 The Forest Officer had no way of knowing from what sized log 

 the tie was made. Secondly, such a clause worked a hardship 

 on the company by causing them to pay for material which they 

 could not use. It was more satisfactory to count all ties in 

 number equivalent to 1,000 feet board measure according to size 

 The squares and faced ties whose largest diameter at the small 

 end was more than 12 inches were counted at 28 per M. feet, 

 B. M., while the other faced ties were counted at 32 per M. 

 feet B. M. 3.5 per cent, of the faced ties were over 12 inches, 

 and were counted by the Forest Officer at 28 per M. This 

 amount is too small to have any appreciable effect on the stump- 

 age value per tie. At 28 per M. feet B. M., each tie is worth 

 $0,089, while those counted at 32 per M. are valued at $0,078 

 per tie. 



