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includes the value of all custom-sawed lumber instead 

 of the amount received by the mill for sawing it. The 

 sole object in showing this last item of sawed lumber 

 was to present specific information as to the total quan- 

 tity and value of the leading product of the lumber 

 industry, namely, that part of the sawmill product 

 which is reported in M feet, B. M. 



The last of the five items making the $422,812,061, 

 total value of sawmill products, is that of amount re- 

 ceived for "custom work." This item is made up of 

 three factors; namely, the amount received for custom 

 sawing, amount received for custom grinding, and the 

 amount received for custom ginning. The grinding 

 and ginning amounts were shown on the reports of 

 those establishments that operated a sawmill and a grist- 

 mill and cotton gin, or a sawmill and gristmill or a cot- 

 ton gin jointly, and in which combination plant the 

 sawmill product predominated in value over the other 

 or others. The item $10,682,770, received for custom 

 sawing, when considered in connection with the total 

 quantity of custom-sawed lumber, namely, 3,575,952 

 M feet, B. M. , shows that the average amount charged 

 for custom sawing per thousand feet for the United 

 States was a little less than &3. 



Under the heading of " planing-mill products" the 

 amount received for "custom planing" is in principle 

 the same kind of a product to the mill as "amount re- 

 ceived for custom sawing" and was handled accord- 

 ingly. One difference in the case of the planing mill, 

 however, is that the quantity and value of custom prod- 

 uct were not reported and are not shown in any part of 

 the report. 



The item of "timber products" is made up of the 

 products, first, of the independent timber camps; sec- 

 ond, products of the dependent logging camps, which 

 were gotten out incidentally to the work of supplying 

 logs for the sawmills i. e., such items as telegraph 

 poles, cross-ties, fence posts, etc. which were gotten 

 out by crews in dependent logging camps in connection 

 with the other and principal work of supplying saw logs 

 for the establishment conducting such camps; and third, 

 in some cases dependent logging camps reported as cut 

 and logged, a quantity of timber in excess of the quan- 

 tity reported as sawed; and in such cases, in order to 

 show in the product the disposition of all materials re- 

 ported, this excess of logs logged over those sawed, was 

 considered as a product and carried to one of two head- 

 ings under timber products namely, "hard wood and 

 other logs (cut for export)," or "logs for domestic 

 manufacture (cut for sale)." The total quantity of such 

 products as telegraph poles, cross-ties, fence posts, logs 

 cut for sale or export, etc. , turned out by both branches 

 of the logging industry, are therefore combined under 

 the heading, "timber products." The amount received 

 for contract work in the independent logging camps as, 

 for example, the cutting and delivery of logs to the rail- 

 road or drive has been counted as an item of the prod- 

 uct and not the value of the timber or products so 

 handled. This item of "amount received for contract 

 work " being treated just as amounts received for cus- 

 tom work in saw and planing mills were treated. These 

 three totals of sawmill, planing mill, and timber camp 

 make up the aggregate value for the whole industry of 

 $566,832,984. 



