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house. It is estimated that it cost $1.75 to handle and deliver this, but 

 the profit, $1.75 per cord, is looked upon as so much salvage by the lum- 

 ber company. When logs run about 5.2 per thousand feet for i6-ft. 

 lengths, 1000 ft. log scale will yield about one- third of a cord aside from 

 the lumber when slabs are cut thin. One large sawmill concern cutting 

 ties figures that it cuts 30 ties and one cord of fuel wood per thousand 

 feet of logs. This large comparative amount is explained by the fact 

 that the logs are small and heavy slabbing is done in order to face the 





Photograph by U. S. Forest Serrtre. 



FIG 95. About 500 cords of wood piled in the municipal woodyard of Columbia, South 

 Carolina. The use of wood fuel was greatly stimulated during the war. 



ties properly. Other sawmills sell excess fuel wood for from 25 cents to 

 $1.00 per load at the refuse pile, the consumer doing the loading and 

 hauling. No measurements are taken; the buyer simply taking as much 

 as his wagon will hold. 



After the entrance of this country into the war, the prices for wood 

 fuel advanced, generally, throughout the country. Where coal was 

 particularly difficult to secure, the price of wood fuel advanced to hitherto 

 unquoted prices. 



