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The lumber concerns of Monticello report no sales of native timber 

 for a number of years. This is also true for concerns in Idaville and 

 Brookston. The Colborn-Dye Companj^ of Wolcott, however, in looking 

 over their files for the past five years, find the following statistics: 



Table III. 



White County Oak Bought and Sold by the Colborn-Dye Company 



of Wolcott. 



1911 25,100 feet. 



1912 8,878 feet. 



1913 7,858 feet. 



1914 22,622 feet. 



1915 11,813 feet. 



Total 76,271 feet. 



"We have probably had 3,000 to 4,000 feet from 

 our local people, which is not included in the above. 

 The figures given above are all for oak timber shipped 

 fiom Burnetts Creek." 



Several carloads of walnut were shipped from Monticello in the 

 spring of 1915. 



Messrs. Reed, Spencer & Wright of Wolcott have bought and are 

 cutting for shipment a quantity of white oak east of Monticello. 



The figures for a mill near Reynolds, covei'ing four active years, 

 are as follows. (Thomas Lemon.) 



Table IV. 



1907. 1908. 1912. 1914. Total. 



Feet of Iv^mber 51,704 63,490 76,819 6,345 198,358 



Cords of wood 719 1,158 211 2,086 



Railroad ties 3,159 4,906 583 8,648 



Fence posts .... 3,501 .... 3,501 



A reply from Brookston (M. B. Yount) enumerates various cuts of 

 lumber aggregating 51,000 feet, as follows: 



