38 Forest Club Annual 



The Fremont Ice Company has contracted to take all the 

 sawdust for use in their plant. They pay six cents an inch for 

 it, an inch being a layer one inch thick on a standard wagon 

 box, and haul it themselves. If they wish it delivered at the 

 plant they have to pay eight cents an inch. 



The tops of the trees and some of the slabs are used for cord- 

 wood. A person can come to the mill and get a load of limbs 

 and branches thirty-two inches high on the trucks of a standard 

 wagon for $1.00. For a load of slabs 26 inches high they pay 

 $1.50. A cord of wood cut in any lengths and delivered costs 

 $4.50. If the buyer comes after the wood he gets it for $2.50 a 

 cord. The engineer charges $1.20 to saw up a cord of wood into 

 6, 8, or 12 inch lengths. Some of the slabs and culls are cut up 

 into kindling and sold at fifty cents a barrel. As this operation 

 has only been carried on about a month it was impossible to get 

 any results regarding the cost per M. of the finished product, or 

 the profit they were making on the cutltng. 



The owner values his entire five hundred acres at $65 per 

 acre. Although he has turned over the management of it to 

 another man he still retains an active interest in the work. 

 Under his direction the trees are cut and used according to im- 

 proved forestry methods. He insists that a system of cutting 

 to a diameter limit with low stumps be used. The stumps 

 left after the first cutting were 28 inches high, those cut 12 

 years ago averaged 22 inches, while the trees cut during the 

 past winter had a maximum stump height of 16 inches. All 

 dead and down timber is cut up as soon as possible. Every 

 bit of the bole and top that can reasonably be considered mer- 

 chantable is converted into firewood while the smaller branches 

 are piled and burned. The complete and perfect utilization 

 resulting from these measures makes the logging operations 

 easier and makes the yield considerably larger than it would 

 be otherwise. 



