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WESTERN YELLOW PINE TYPE 



B and better.. 



C select 



D select 



No. I shop 



No. 2 shop.. . . 



No. 3 shop 



No. I common 

 No. 2 common 

 No. 3 common 

 No. 4 common 



southeast under normal conditions by reason of the cheap negro 

 labor obtainable in working long leaf pine. Hence, the turpen- 

 tine value need not be reckoned in calculating the stumpage price 

 of the average tract. 



The normal method of utilizing western yellow pine is to fell 

 and buck the trees into logs 16 feet long, bunch the logs, use 

 four-wheeled truck or big wheels to get them to the railroad and 

 then freight them to the mill. Portable mills have not been used 

 to any great extent because the difficulty in getting water in 

 suitable quantities has made it better to locate a large mill in a 

 central place. Then too such a mill is better equipped to turn 

 out the higher grades. This is an advantage since the local 

 market will not absorb readily the total annual cut and much of 

 it must be shipped to such middle western markets as Kansas 

 City, St. Louis and Minneapolis. Average costs in 1914 were as 

 follows: 



Felling and bucking $1 . 00 



Skidding and hauling to railway 4 00 



Freight to miU, 15 miles i • 00 



Milling 5 00 



$11 .00 



There is, therefore, a possible margin of $9.75 for stumpage 

 and profit if an average sale value of $20 can be secured. No 

 account need be taken of possible returns from cordwood because 



