grown up in the woods and "been in the "business all his life- 

 that presupposes that ho thin'-ps he Imows Just about all 

 thoro is to "bo ?-jnovrni about the lumber "business and loffine- 



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and whon he is not with a very radical change as to some of 

 the main factors onto ring into the business he feels he has 

 no vay of judging Just liov; far tho change is goin$ to affect 

 the buLiness proposition. In other words, he is very appre- 

 hensive as to how nuch of the less valuable species the 

 proposition will have to carry. lie loolx, and should look 

 in ray judgment, for some definite method to "be provided for 

 in his contract with the Government indicating how much of 

 the poorer species it will be necessary for him to talne. 



I am fairly familiar with your system of marking, 

 A mar?: in g "board was appointed to marlr t:,o timber which was 

 purchased by the Company I represent, and I './as present at 

 the marl-ing; I thinlc the way I felt about it is illustra- 

 tive of tho average lumberman's viewpoint I observed what 

 I could - I then asked whether the tabulations which the 

 Department Officers were making, showing the species marked 

 and those left - whether those meant that as to the remain- 

 der of the tract we should get the same relative aqpunt of 

 the different species, he answer was no, that it didn z t 

 mean that the result of the marking would "be identical on 

 the balance of the tract; but that the sample mar!:in3 was' an 

 indication of the principles which would govern the marking 



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