IIO TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Board of Trade, Timber Supply Department 

 (Scotland). 



Total amount of standing pit-wood purchased by Department, 

 5,515,463 cubic feet, valued at ,£178,796, 14s., is equal to 

 778d. per cubic foot. 



Pure Pit-wood Purchases (included above). 



Additional. — Cut pit-wood contracted for from estates and 

 paid for by instalments as delivered : — 



Lineal feet. 



194,017 = ;£l9 6 ° 



10,000,000 at 23s. = 115,000 



5,000,000 at 22s. = 55,000 



10,000,000 at 24s. = 120,000 



Gairloch 

 Lovat 

 Seafield No. 1 



,, No. 2 (Inverlaidnan) 



Pitwood consigned to Messrs George Horsley & Co., Ltd., 

 at West Hartlepool and Sunderland, from commencement of 

 consignment in July 1917 to 27th February 1919, 13,664,562 

 lineal feet. 



Supplementary Note. 



At a recent meeting of the Coal Mines Commission, it was 

 stated on behalf of the miners that a request for increased 

 wages had been met by the coalmasters with the statement 

 that timber and other stores had increased so much in price 

 that the demand could not be conceded. 



The following facts relating to the effect of the increase in 

 the price of ti?nber on the price of coal may be interesting. 



The average importation of foreign pit-wood for the five years 

 1909-13, inclusive, was 2,944,272 loads, and the average value 

 £3,509, 60 1 . The average price during that period was therefore 

 24s. per load. A load may be taken as approximately one ton. 

 It follows, therefore, that the pre-war price of foreign pit-wood 

 was 24s. per ton. (These figures are taken from the " Report of 



