8 LOGGING 



Stand. The average stand over large areas does not exceed 

 10,000 feet. In the Coastal Plain region the second-growth 

 forests of loblolly average from 5000 to 6000 feet per acre with 

 a maximum of 15,000 feet. The choicest longleaf stumpage is 

 found in Calcasieu Parish in southwestern Louisiana, where 

 it commands a higher price than in any other part of the 

 South. 



The lumber cut in 191 1 was 12,896,706,000 board feet. 



Logging has become more intensive during recent years and 

 loggers get from three to five times more timber per acre than 

 formerly. In Louisiana the values show an increase from $3.00 

 per acre in 1897 to $75 in 1911,^ and in Virginia "timber rights"^ 

 show an increase from 40 cents per thousand feet in 1897 to 

 $2.96 in 1908. A table of southern yellow pine stumpage values 

 is given on page 541 in the Appendix. 



Western Yellow Pine. — Western yellow pine {Pinus pon- 

 der osa) is one of the more important merchantable species in the 

 Rocky Mountain region. Its market is largely confined to the 

 territory in which it grows and its chief uses are for general 

 construction purposes and mining timbers. 



The stand in the Sierras, where it grows in mixture with sugar 

 pine, Douglas fir, incense cedar and firs, ranges from 2000 to 

 22,000 feet per acre with an average of about 8000 feet. In 

 Arizona and New Mexico it ranges from 3500 to 15,000 feet per 

 acre. Maximum stands of 40,000 feet per acre have been 

 reported. 



The cut of western yellow pine for 1910 was 1,562,106,000 

 board feet. 



Stumpage values per thousand feet for western yellow pine 

 have been approximately as follows: 



1906, Sierras, California $2 



1908, Plumas National Forest 2 



1910, Crook National Forest 3 



1910, Crater National Forest 3 



1912, Manitou Park Reserve, Colorado. . . 4 



1 The American Lumber Industry. Official Report Tenth Annual Convention 

 National Manufacturers' Association, 191 2. P. 89. 



2 American Lumberman, Chicago, Illinois, Feb. 18, 1911, p. 40. 



