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owner having had his logs sawed may sell the manufactured 

 lumber. In order to show the average relation between prices 

 paid for logs at the mill and prices paid for rough lumber, 

 loaded on the car at the mill, the following prices of rough, 

 manufactured lumber are given, to compare with those above: 

 Spruce, $16 to $18; second-growth pine, $20 to $22; fir, $16 to 

 $18; basswood, $16 to $18; birch and maple, $13 to $15; ash. 



Fig. 62. — A selected lot of the best grade spruce logs for manufacture into clapboards. 



$16 to $18; hemlock, $16; oak, $20 to $25. Sawmill owners 

 in the above section usually charge from $2.50 to $3 per 

 thousand feet, board measure, for sawing softwood lumber and 

 from $3 to $4 for hardwoods. These figures indicate the pos- 

 sible profit of selling manufactured lumber over logs, but the 

 owners should reahze that it is often difiicult for them to find a 

 ready market, while the millmen are in constant communication 

 with dealers. 



Lumbering is a form of business in which there are many 

 chances of loss and in which experience and the judgment ac- 



