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ever, to give an approximate price for either, 

 so much in the haulage line at least, depend- 

 ing on situation of the woodlands, accessi- 

 bility, condition of roads, and rate of wages 

 ruling in the particular district from which 

 timber is being conveyed. A few examples of 

 the actual prices that have been paid during 

 the past three months may be interesting. 

 Three miles from a railway station, with a soft 

 approach to a rocky plantation, the price 

 paid was 8d. per cubic foot; another haul 

 seven miles distant from rail was also 8d. 

 per foot. Delivering mixed wood three miles 

 to Bromley Station, in Kent, cost 3|d. per 

 foot. Putting the various prices together, we 

 came to the conclusion that during the whole 

 of the past year the cost was a fraction over 

 2d. per foot per mile for timber, and pit wood 

 3s. lOd. per ton per mile. Railway rates from 

 Bagshot to South Wales were 15s. per ton, and 

 in Scotland birch timber for 160 miles cost for 

 carriage 19s. per ton. The cost of carriage of 

 beech-trees from Sussex to the Chiltern Hills 

 was more than the owner of those trees had 

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