PRICKS OF WOOD. 



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advanced in proportion for various reasons. Competition, stimulated by active railroad building, 

 opening up of virgin fields of supply, improved machinery, systemati/.ed methods of logging and 

 of handling and marketing material have tended to keep the price down. 



Meanwhile stumpage has increased rapidly for such kinds as show rapid decrease in supply. 

 Thus white pine stuinpage more than doubled in ten years, while walnut, tulip poplar, and ash 

 stumpage has increased maiiyfold as the supply has grown scarcer. 



In the markets, while the average price for lumber has advanced but little, the better grades 

 have appreciated disproportionately. From the carefully collected census statistics for ship- 



Export price of lumber from ISo'j to 1895. 

 [Tln> prices given represent market value at time of exportation in the ports whence the lumber was exported, averaged for all ports.] 



Boards, joists and scantlings, M ff. Timber. 100 cubic ft Stiing/es,M, 



building, which requires all first-class material, the average price per 1,000 feet, B. M., for the 

 country at large for the following kinds appears: 



Firewood, even in the densely settled parts, remains stationary in price, on account of aban- 

 doned farms and culled woodlands producing it in abundance: in fact, in many sections its value 

 lias decreased, competition of coal aiding in its reduction. 



Prices for lumber and ntumpage of white pine. 

 [Compiled from report of Sagimiw lioard of Trade.] 



