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find you will be perfectly safe in a statement that grade^ for 

 grade the high grade piece of yellow pine will be just as strong 

 as the high grade piece of Douglas fir, and the high grade piece 

 of Douglas fir will be just as strong as the high grade piece 

 of yellow pine. 



Mr. Woodhead : I would like to know what grade of Doug- 

 las fir corresponds to 90 per cent heart long leaf? 



Dr. von Schrenk : I don't think there is any such grade. 



Mr. Woodhead: No; I don't think there is. 



Dr. von Schrenk : There is no such grade at all on account 

 of the fact that the rules under which fir has been sold have 

 been so different from those of pine. The Douglas fir manu- 

 facturers will hold a meeting in Seattle, under the auspices of 

 our committee, a month from now, and they are now formulating 

 a set of rules which will be practically identical with those recently 

 adopted by the Southern Pine Association, which will very accu- 

 rately define that grade. 



Mr. Woodhead: They haven't any at the present time? 



Dr. von Schrenk : No, not that I know of. 



Mr. Gray: What is the average price per thousand feet of 

 creosoting lumber? 



Dr. von Schrenk : That will vary very much, according to 

 the amount of oil that is injected per cubic foot. The price of 

 creosoting is determined by the method of operating and the 

 amount of preservative. Taking an average standard, say fifteen 

 pounds of creosote per cubic foot, and an average plant, you can 

 figure it will cost from $13 to $20 per thousand, depending upon 

 the initial cost of oil. If you use one of the economical practices 

 it may run down as low as $8 per thousand. 



The Chairman: Any other questions, gentlemen? 



Mr. Woodhead: I would like to make a little explanation 

 in regard to the standard heart specifications. Several of the 

 gentlemen here have asked me to speak in regard to it, and I 

 want to say, for the information of those gentlemen and perhaps 

 others, that in Texas and Louisiana for many years there was a 

 standard specification of long leaf timber called standard heart, 

 and it had a specific application as to what it was. It admitted 

 of an inch of sap on two corners the full length of the piece or 

 an inch and a half of sap on one corner the full length. That 

 was called standard heart and was used by those mills in Louis- 



iDouglas Fir 

 to Have 

 Density Rules 



Cost of 



Creosoting 



Lumber 



"Standard 

 Heart" in 

 the South 



