482 Forestry Quarterly. 



White Oak ties bring 65 cents a piece. Most of these ties are cut 

 from fire damaged or cull timber in connection with logging. 

 Cull ties, that is, those below the standard specifications bring 12 

 cents for cedar, elm, hemlock, and tamarack and 25 cents for 

 White Oak. All cull ties are used on the operation since it does 

 not pay to sell them. There are about 100,000 standard ties made 

 annually. 



Telegraph Poles. Poles on this operation are made of White 

 Cedar exclusively. It costs from one cent to four cents per foot 

 to make and haul to the tracks, depending upon the length. All 

 lengths from 20 to 55 feet are used. The average pole between 

 these dimensions costs 68 cents to make and haul to the track in- 

 cluding stumpage. The average pole brings about $2.75 f. o. b. 

 Neopit, yielding a profit of $2.07 per pole. A 20 foot pole, 3 

 inches in diameter at the top, brings only $0.20, whereas a pole 

 55 feet long and 7 inches in diameter at the top brings $10.00 

 All poles are peeled in the woods when felled. During 191 1, 

 1,257 poles were made. 



Posts. All posts are made of White Cedar and by contract 

 labor. It costs from 2 to 4 cents to make and haul posts to the 

 track depending upon the distance. Two sizes are used as fol- 

 lows : 7 feet long, 3 inches in diameter at the top, and 8 feet long 

 and 5 inches in diameter at the top. The prices received for these 

 poles are from 4 to 12 cents a piece f. o. b. Neopit depending upon 

 the size and quality. The average cost of making, hauling, etc.,, 

 including stumpage is 5^ cents a piece, yielding an average profit 

 of 2| cents a piece. Last year 2,000 posts were cut. 



Picket Stock. This material is largely made from Red and 

 White Pine and Basswood. The prices received for this stock 

 vary from $1.71 per thousand for pieces, i by i inch wide by 20- 

 inches long, up to $14.70 for pieces i^ by i| inches wide by 48 

 inches long. All of this stock goes into window shade material. 



Slat stock which is always associated with window shade ma- 

 terial brings $1.72 per thousand for pieces f by i^ inches by 40- 

 inches long, and $2.45 for pieces f by i inch by 48 inches long. 

 Up to the present date the mill has not turned out a sufficient 

 amount of picket stock on which to base any fair estimates of cost 

 but it is beyond question a paying proposition. 



Besides the above various lines of utilization the operation is 



