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cases, fish-boxes, herring-barrels, and certain descriptions of 

 colliery timbers {e.g. pit sleepers, pillar wood, etc.). It is often 

 found that well-matured home timber of excellent quality which 

 might compete on level terms with the best of foreign timber 

 has to be manufactured for the foregoing purposes at a price 

 which hardly pays the felling and sawing charges, and leaves 

 little or nothing over to meet the cost of the timber in the round. 

 The following represents a note of the prices which have had 

 to be accepted recently by members of the Forestry Society.^ 



Fit Sleepers — Scots pine, spruce, or silver fir. 



Size. 



3 ft. X 5 ins. X 2 ins. 

 3 ft. 3 ins. X 5 ins. x 2 ins. 

 3 ft. 6 ins. X 5 ins. x 2 ins. 

 3 ft. 9 ins. X 5 ins. x 2 ins. 



Crowns — Scots pine, spruce, or silver fir. 



Price 

 Size. Price each. per cubic foot. 



6 ft. X 6 ins. X 3 ins. 5d. 8"32d. 



7 ft. X 7 ins. X 3I ins. 7d. 7'35d. 



Hutch Cleading — Larch and Scots fir. 



Price per square yard. Price per cubic foot. 



Size. Larch. Scots fir. Larch. Scots fir. 



All the above prices were subject to a broker's commission of 

 5 per cent. 



' The prices per cubic foot are based on the assumption that the sleepers 

 have a wane of 20 % off squared cubic contents, a very ample allowance. 



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