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Ccuiadian forestry Journal, May, ic^20. 



HIGH TIMBER PRICES IN 

 FRANCE. 



Stumpao;-e value of the principal 

 tiinbcr trees of LVance averaged five 

 times those prevailing in the United 

 States. Col. W. R. Greeley says that 

 the U. S. army paid for maritime pine 

 stumpagc in the Landes, around $26 

 per thousand board feet. Oak timber 

 of all grades in the Loire River Val- 

 ley and in the upper watershed of the 

 ]\Iarne. averaged $36 per thuosand on 

 the slump. The silver fir and the 

 spruce in the Yosges and Jura Moun- 

 tains, timber averaging six or eight 

 logs to the thousand feet, cost about 

 $50 per thousand standing, while se- 



lected piling sometimes exceeded $90 

 ])er thousand. These war time jjrices 

 were probably 75 per cent, more than 

 the stumj)age \alues in 1914. 



"Tlie ])rice of forest ])roducts is 

 high — in pajter money. ."Spruce logs 

 sell in the woods, 15 miles from the 

 nearest railroad, at 2.000 marks per 

 1. 000 board feet. Timber fit for fur- 

 niture is beyond the reach of anyone. 

 Xcvertheles<s, the forest author'ities 

 (1(1 not cut more than the 'sustainable 

 \i(.'l(r — or as much as is replaced by 

 our annual grfjwth." 



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