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16 feet long, from 1 to 2 inches thick, and from 6 to 14 inches wide, per 

 cubic meter, are as follows : 



The subjoined price list is for units of 100 pieces, 16 feet long, but of 

 special thicknesses other than 1 inch. 



Terms on all sales under the foregoing lists, three months' payment, 

 or 1J per cent discount for cash These prices would be equivalent to 

 about $30 per 1,000 feet for clear pine lumber 1 inch thick, 12 inches 

 wide, and 16 feeb long. Whether American lumber can stand the 

 freight and import duty, besides commissions, is the main question which 

 American exporters will readily decide. Oregon pine and redwood 

 from the Pacific coast have been imported to Bremen, Dusseldorf, 

 Cologne, and some other ports of the lower Rhine, but it does not 

 appear that any has come so far inland as Frankfort. 



In respect to its pine lumber supply Frankfort occupies the advan- 

 tageous position of being the first large city on the Eiver Main, down 

 which are rafted vast quantities of logs and lumber from the forests 

 of Bavaria. Part of the logs are sawed in the woods where they are 

 cut, but a large proportion are peeled and rafted down in whole tree 

 lengths to Frankfort, where they are either hauled out and sawed or 

 the smaller rafts are joined together and continue their voyage down 

 the river to the numerous sawmills along the Ehine from Cologne to 

 Duisburg, or to Holland, where they are either sawed for lumber and 

 ship timber or are used as piles in the dike and dock constructions 

 which are constantly in progress in that country. Germany is thus an 

 exporter as well as an importer of logs and lumber, the exports under 

 two classes, mostly pine and fir, amounting in 1892 to 276,473 tons. 



