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a very rough country where considerable grading and ditching is 

 necessary, the Spur expense will be excessive. The average cost of 

 Spur work for the three months' period was $0.597 per thousand. 



Under Transportation is taken up the cost of what is known 

 as the "main line" railroad, or the road from the mill to the point 

 of concentration of logs in the woods and the cost of operating 

 the necessary train crews to bring the logs into the mill. This is 

 naturally affected by the distance the timber is from the mill, the 

 character of the country through which the road runs and the 

 grades that are encountered in handling the trains over same. The 

 average cost of Transportation for the three months' period was 

 $0.911; making the Total Cost of Logs in Pond, for the three 

 months' period, according to the Association figures, $7.141 per 

 thousand. 



As before mentioned, it will be readily understood that the cost 

 Yield Per , . , . ' , . . : \, , , . , 



Acre a Large * ^gg 11 ^ 1S governed largely by the yield per acre of the timber, 



Factor as this affects almost every item entering into the costs. 



As a general proposition the yield of short leaf timber is con- 

 siderably less than long leaf ; but it seems that here is where nature 

 has applied the law of compensation. The weight of short leaf 

 pine is considerably less than long leaf, and we feel that the manu- 

 facturer is entitled to the natural benefits on weights of short leaf 

 timber, in order to offset the increased cost of logging, rather than 

 give this benefit to the trade. 



Much could be said in connection with this feature and, in 

 fact, all other features of logging costs, if time would permit, but 

 on account of the necessity of briefness in this case it has been 

 impossible to more than touch on the features of the cost of stump- 

 age and logging; but it will be apparent to anyone, even though 

 not familiar with the logging end of the lumber business, that log- 

 ging costs are subject to greater variation than are the costs in 

 the manufacturing end of the business, being affected so materially 

 by the natural conditions \vhich ingenuity and efficiency cannot 

 overcome. 



