70 Timehri. 
and Domingo Satinwood commands 22 to 34 cents. In shipments of one or 
two thousand logs to the United Kingdom an average price of about 
60 cents per cubic foot would cover expenses and leave, probably, a 
margin ; but if a market may,as is probable, be found in the United 
States, the lower freight might make it more profitable to ship certain 
timbers there. Some of our woods such as Purpleheart Ducalliballi, 
Letter-wood, Havboodie and some figures of Itikibouriballi and Lana 
hold a place by themselves, they can only be considered as fancy and rare 
and, when they become known, their price would doubtless be high but 
doubtless also uncertain. Still, in cargoes in which they occur, they might 
help the average. The point is that the holds of a large vessel might easily 
be filled with timbers selected from timbers well known and in use here, 
and some of those named not so well known. If the lower-priced logs 
realised the freight onthe bulk of the cargo, the finer and higher priced 
timbers would give the merchants profit on the shipment. 
Within the limits of the space allowed me by the Editor I have not attempted 
an extended classification even of the timbers I have seen and handled. I 
hope shortly to see published the exhaustive treatise by Mr. Stone and Pro- 
fessor Dunstan which has for over two years lain in the pigeon-holes of the 
Government Secretary’s Office. When this work at long last reaches the 
public, many points of confusion and doubt will be cleared up, and it will be 
possible with more confidence to attack the work of arranging a market cata- 
logue. It willserve the present purpose if some of those interested in handling 
timber are stimulated to inquiry into the large business prospect that is daily 
widening for anyone who will take the trouble to make practical acquaintance 
with timbers of commerce and their uses. There is certainly no agency of 
development, which will so speedily bring that subject from the clouds to the 
earth, as that of the timber feller equipped with modern ideas and know- 
ledge, which is power and in this case wealth, in measure probably not con- 
temptible. 
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