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BULLETIN 234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 10. — Total cost of production, market price, and net profit for lodgepole-pine 

 stulls, converter poles, lagging poles, and cordwood. Dcerlodge National Forest, Mont. 





Size. 







Market price. 3 





Price at 



















which 















square 





















timber 





















must 









Per 



Cost 











sell per 









cent of 



of pro- 









Profit 



thou- 

 sand 

 board 

 feet in 

 Butte 

 to equal 



Product. 



Length. 



Top 

 di- 

 ame- 

 ter. 



entire 

 cut by 

 pieces'. 1 



duc- 

 tion per 

 piece. 2 



Per 

 piece. 



Per 

 cubic 

 foot. 



Per 



1,000 

 board 

 feet. * 



per 



piece. 





















round 





















in price 





















per cu- 





















bic foot. 





Feet. 



In. 

















Stulls 



14 



5 

 6 



18.24 

 16.76 



SO. 25 

 .32 



SO. 28 

 .36 







SO. 03 

 .04 







SO. 100 



S36. 00 



S^.33 







7 



7.19 



.40 



.50 



.•111 



25. 00 



.10 



9.25 







8 



4.30 



. 55 



.71 



.118 



35.50 



.16 



9.84 







9 



1.S5 



.63 



.85 



.112 



28.33 



.22 



9.33 







10 



.86 



.71 



1.00 



.106 



25.00 



!29 



8.84 







11 



.39 



.79 



1.14 



.100 



22.80 



.35 



8.33 







12 



.37 



.93 



1.41 



.105 



20.13 



.48 



8.75 







13 



.12 



1.02 



1.55 



.099 



19.37 



.53 



8.25 







14 



.07 



1.16 



1.72 



.096 



17.20 



.56 



8.00 







15 



.04 



1.32 



1.90 



.094 



15.83 



.58 



7.73 







16 



.02 



1.45 



2.07 



.091 



14.78 



.62 



7.58 







17 



.01 



1.61 



2.25 



.088 



14.06 



.64 



7.33 







18 



.005 



1.82 



2.46 



.0S6 



12.94 



.64 



7.16 





16 



6 



10.42 



.41 



.45 



.102 



22.50 



.04 



8.50 







7 



11.12 



.51 



.59 



.102 



19.67 



.06 



8.50 







8 



10.09 



.65 



.86 



.116 



28.67 



.21 



9.67 







9 



7.18 



.73 



1.00 



.109 



25.00 



.27 



9.09 







10 



4.74 



.86 



LIS 



.104 



19.67 



.32 



8.67 







11 



2.76 



.95 



1.33 



.099 



19.00 



.38 



8.25 







12 



1.69 



1.05 



1.45 



.091 



18.12 



.40 



7.5S 







13 



.89 



1.19 



1.63 



.089 



16.30 



.44 



7.42 







14 



.43 



1.28 



1.76 



.084 



16.00 



.48 



7.00 







15 



.22 



1.49 



1.98 



.0S4 



14.13 



.49 



7.00 







16 



.12 



1.64 



2.15 



.0S1 



13.43 



.51 



6. 75 







17 



.06 



1.82 



2.33 



.078 



12.94 



.51 



6.50 







18 



.05 



1.98 



2.54 



.076 



12.09 



.56 



6.35 



Converter poles 



24 



3h 





.385 



.385 



.123 





.015 





Lagging poles 



16 



2" 





.115 



.12 



.12 





.005 





Cordwood 





56 





4.85 



5.00 



.063 





.15 











1 Based on 262,621 pieces scaled in 1910-11. 



2 From Table 8. 



3 At the rocker stull framing plant, near Butte, for the stulls; at the Anaconda smelter for the converter 

 poles; and at Butte for the lagging poles and cordwood, etc. 



4 Derived from the figures per piece by using the contents in board feet of pieces of different sizes given 

 in Table 5. 



s Ave 



The stumpage price per piece shown in Table 9 is equivalent to 

 one of $4 per thousand board feet. This price has been in effect for 

 several years in the principal sales on the Deerlodge National Fori st. 

 When the prices for the various products were reduced to a cubic- 

 foot basis, however, considerable irregularity was disclosed. Small- 

 dimension material, for which the demand is relatively light, was 

 bringing a higher price per cubic foot than the larger-dimension 

 material, for which the demand is great and which takes longer and 

 is more expensive to produce. Since the timber was not being sold 

 for lumber nor actually scaled by the Decimal C rule, it was con- 

 sidered advisable to adopt a set of piece-rate prices, based on cabic- 

 foot contents and increasing with the diameter and length of the 



