SUGAR PINE. 



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timber are, however; begiruiiiig to feel the pressure of interest charges, 

 taxes, and other items of expense connected with carrying stumpage. 

 Operations have recently started on a large scale on two such holdings, 

 and there are indications that several more will follow withui the 

 next 5 years shoidd market conditions improve with the closing of 

 the war in Europe. The carrying charges on National Forest stump- 

 age are borne by the United States, and a constantly mcreasing num- 

 ber of lumbermen are operating in Government timber. It is pre- 

 dicted that the annual cut of California pine will reach 650,000,000 

 feet by 1920. " Of this amount 150,000,000 should be sugar pine. 



Table 5 gives the number and type of the principal mills at present 

 producing sugar-pine lumber, together v/ith their average and total 

 annual output of this species. 



Table 5. 



Type of mill. 



Double 

 band. 



Single 

 band. 



Circular. 



Total. 



Number of mills 



Average annual output, feet, b. m 

 Total annual output, feet, b. m. . . 



10 



8, 008, 000 

 80,080,000 



2, 500, 000 

 20, 002, 000 



15 



704,000 



10,561,000 



33 



11,212,000 



110,643,000 



GRADE PRODUCT OF SUGAR-PINE LOGS. 



The average quahty of sugar-pine timber is fairly weU indicated 

 by the results of a miU tally of 855 logs made during the summer of 

 1914 at about the middle of the range of this species from north to 

 south. Farther south the quality is better, and farther north, 

 poorer. The logs are divided into three grades: Grade I, or clear 

 logs; Grade II, or shop logs; and Grade III, or rough, common logs. 

 Both sound and defective logs were tallied. Grade I logs made up 

 22.7 per cent of the net log scale; Grade II, 42.8 per cent, and Grade 

 III, 34.5 per cent. 



Including both sound and defective logs, the quality of lumber 

 v:ithin each log grade, by actual tally, is shown in Table 6. 



Table 6. — Lumber grade froduct of sugar pine within log grades. 



firade of log. 



Grade I . . 

 Onjdell. 

 Grade III 

 All grades 



1 and 2 

 clear. 



Percl. 



33. 



4.2 



.» 



9.4 



3 clear. 



Per cl. 



9.3 



2.(5 



.4 



3.3 



C .select. 



Percl. 



0.2 



.1 



Au.s- 

 tralian. 



Per cl. 



0.5 



.1 



1 .shop. 



Percl. 

 19.3 

 15.9 

 2.7 

 11.9 



2 shop. 



Per cl. 



11.0 



22.3 



6.8 



14.2 



3 .shop. 



Per cl. 

 2.6 

 7.7 

 6.6 

 6.2 



1 and 2 

 com- 

 mon. 



Per ct. 



1.0 



37.9 



63.2 



41.9 



3 com- 

 mon. 



Per ct. 



0.4 

 ".'2 



Box. 



Per ct. 

 8.5 

 8.8 

 19.4 

 12.5 



TJic proportion of viU']\. of th(^ principal lumber grades produced 

 frcuri diamc^ter clasHcs of sound logs is giv<>n in Tubh; 7. Tlic diame- 

 ter clu.sKos are based upon tlie small-end diameters of logs and are 

 inclusive. 



