﻿FOBEST MANAGEMENT OF LOBLOLLY PINE. 



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Pine slabs as well as small logs and top logs can readily be converted into a high- 

 grade chemical pulp, and if such material can be delivered to a suitably located paper 

 mill, at the low price that seems possible in certain localities, it is practically certain 

 that, the Southern States could produce certain grades of paper in competition with 

 the world. 



PRESENT LUMBER PRICES. 



The price received for loblolly pine lumber in the region covered 

 by this report varies according as it is sold mill-run, either air-dried or 

 green (principally to the local trade), or is kiln-dried, graded, and sold 

 as North Carolina pine to the general lumber trade. 



In the Delaware-Maryland- Virginia peninsula and on the western 

 shore of Maryland practically the entire cut is sold locally mill-run 

 and air-dried or green. Table 4 gives the average prices 1 received 

 for loblolly pine lumber on the peninsula f . o. b. railroad or at factories 

 and mills along the railroad. 



Table 4. — Prices of loblolly pine lumber in the Delaware- Maryland- Virginia Peninsula. 



Per thousand. 



1 inch thick, square-edge boards $13. 50 



Small-dimension stuff 12. 00 



f-inch thick board (for box factories) * 11. 50 



Crate flitch 2 10. 00 



Mine props 3 not sawed into lumber (in the round, and 11 to 17 inches 



in diameter in the middle of log) 12. 00 to 15. 00 



Cull mine props 4 (less than 11 inches middle diameter) 7. 00 to 8. 75 



Throughout the mainland of Virginia by far the larger part of the 

 loblolly pine lumber output, after being kiln-dried and graded, is sold 

 to the general lumber trade as North Carolina pine, or else is air-dried 

 and graded as Virginia pine. Table 5 gives recent prices paid by 

 wholesale merchants to manufacturers for the principal grades of 

 North Carolina pine rough lumber, f. o. b. Norfolk, the main distrib- 

 uting center for this lumber. 



Table 5. — Prices of North Carolina pine f. o. b. Norfolk, Va. (basis actual sales). 5 





Average quarterly prices for quarter ending — 



Grade. 



Dec. 31, 

 1912. 



Sept. 30, 

 1912. 



June 30, 

 1912. 



Mar. 31, 

 1912. 



Dec. 31, 

 1911. 



Sept. 30, 

 1911. 



June 30, 

 1911. 



Under 12" width: 



No. 1 



$27.52 



$25. 75 



$25. 25 

 23.00 

 17.25 

 15.25 

 18.-25 

 10.50 



$25. 00 



$24. 25 



$24.25 



$24.50 



No.2 



No.3 















No. 4 



16.99 



15.75 



15.25 



13.50 



12.75 



12 50 



1 and 2 bark strips 





Box bark strips 





























i March, 1912. 



2 Logs (not suitable to cut into boards), especially small, crooked logs, are slabbed on three sides and cut 

 into "flitch" 2", 2J", or 3" in thickness, with variable widths on either face in each piece and scaled on the 

 basis of the average width. 



3 Mine props sell at $3 a ton, green, f. o. b. railroad. It takes from 4 to 5 tons, or 8,000 to 10,000 pounds, 

 of green mine props to cut out 1,000 board feet of 4/4 edge lumber, so that the price of $3 per ton amounts 

 to $12 or $15 per thousand board feet. 



^ Cull mine props sell for $1 .75 per ton, gr,een, or $7 to SS.75 per thousand. The cost, figured in 1,000 board 

 feet, of hauling green mine props amounts to about four times that of dry lumber, and for this reason props 

 are cut only within a short haul of from 1 to 2 miles of the railroad. 



6 Selling price of wholesalers to retailers would be higher than the above prices. 



