INCENSE CEDAR. 3 



Table 3. — Consumption of incense cedar in 1912, classified by products. 



Use. 







Market price or value. 



Total 





Range. 



Average. 



value. 





Feet 6. m. 



22,500,000 

 3,500,000 

 3,050,000 

 2,500,000 



500,000 



500,000 



250, 000 



10,000 



Per cent. 



68.6 



10.6 



9.2 



7.6 



1.5 



1.5 

 .7 

 .3 



S10 to $75 per 1,000 feet. . 



$15 per 1,000 feet i 



20 cents each 



$337, 500 



Ties . 



20,000 



Pencil slats 



$14.50 per 1,000 feet 2 



10 to 35 cents each 



$14.50 per 1,000 feet 2 



44,225 

 35,226 









Poles and stubs 



\Poles, $1.25 to S4.50 , 

 $4.50 to $6.50 per cord. . . 

 $2.50 to $5 per 1,000 feet.. 

 $7 per 1,000 feet 



$1.50 



3,900 





$5.50 per cord 



5,500 





$3.75 per 1,000 feet 



$7 per 1,000 feet 



7,500 





210 











Total 



32,810,000 



100.0 



454,061 



1 Mill run No. 2 common or better. 



2 2f-inch rough, f. o. b. cars at main-line points. 



Incense cedar when sound makes excellent lumber, for it is light, 

 soft, and easily worked. It is not, however, a good lumber-producing 

 tree, because of its short body, rapid taper, and susceptibility to 

 " dry-rot " or " peckiness." So common is this that it is a common 

 practice in cruising incense cedar to deduct from 30 to 50 per cent 

 for cull on account of it. Only the occasional sound trees and por- 

 tions of logs free from dry-rot are sawed into boards, the rest, unless 

 too badly honeycombed, being cut into dimension stuff or ties. 



The yield of various grades of lumber from an incense cedar tree 

 depends very largely, of course, on the amount of " dry-rot." This 

 varies so widely, however, in different trees in one locality as well as 

 in trees in different localities that data based on the yields of 

 "pecky" trees would have very little general application. The 

 yields indicated in Table 4 are based therefore on sound trees and 

 are fairly typical of the yield where there is no " dry-rot." 



Table 4. — Yield by grade of incense-cedar lumber. 



Grade. 



Tree No. 1. 



Tree No. 2. 



Yield in 

 board 

 feet. 



Per cent. 



Yield in 

 board 

 feet. 



Per cent. 



Clear 



500 

 900 

 700 

 500 

 300 



17 

 31 

 24 

 17 

 11 



1,360 

 2,340 

 1,890 

 1,350 

 810 



17 

 29 

 24 

 17 

 13 



No. 1 common 



No. 2 common 



No. 3 common 



Cull 



Total 



2,900 



100 



7,750 



100 





The price of rough incense cedar lumber, mill run, averages $15 

 per thousand feet board measure at the mill. The prices paid for 

 it in its manufactured form at centers of distribution and consump- 



