WESTERN YELLOW PINE IN OREGON. 



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LUMBER GRADES. 



In Oregon two sets of grades are used, one in use through all the 

 eastern part of the State, and the other in southern Oregon where 

 the lumber is shipped to California. Table 13 shows the names of the 

 principal grades and their average prevaUing values f. o. b. mill or 

 raih'oad dui'ing the past two years in two representative regions, 

 the Blue Mountains and the Klamath Lake region. It should be 

 remembered that the value of each grade is constantly changing 

 and that the percentage of grade is very variable from tract to tract. 

 The table is therefore an illustration, not a mathematical average: 



Table 13. — Average value of the various grades of lumber from two typical yellow-pine 



regions in Oregon. 



Blue Mountain region. 



Name of grade. 



B select and better 



C select 



D select 



No. 1 shop 



No. 2 shop 



No. 3 shop 



No. 1 common 



No. 2 common 



No. 3 common 



No. 4 common 



Value per M 

 feet. 



.$35 to $45 

 30 to 37 



20 to 28 

 25 to 28 

 16 to 19 

 11 to 14 



21 to 24 

 14 to 18 

 11 to 14 



8 to 10 



Klamath region. 



Name of grade. 



Nos. 1 and 2 clear 



No. 3 clear 



C select 



No. Ishop 



No. 2 shop 



Box 



Value per M 

 feet. 



About S35. 00 

 About 30.00 

 About 30.00 

 About 24.00 

 About 17.00 

 About 12.50 



PLANTING. 



Direct seeding with yellow pine in Oregon, either by sowing the 

 seed broadcast or in prepared spots, does not promise good results 

 so far as is indicated by the experiments already made. Better 

 results will undoubtedly be secured by the planting of nursery-grown 

 seedhngs, though it will cost more initially. Since yellow pine 

 produces such a long taproot, it is rather a difficult species to handle 

 in the nursery and in field planting; therefore, plants older than 2 or 

 3 years, i. e., those about 6 inches tall, can not ordinarily be used 

 profitably in forestation work. As yet, but little planting of yellow 

 pine has been done in Oregon, and the experimental areas so far 

 planted aggregate less than 100 acres; but the indications are that 

 careful methods on reasonably appropriate sites will give satisfactory 

 results. The average cost of establishing a forest plantation of 

 yellow pine, 800 trees to the acre, is estimated as follows: 



Per acre. 

 C'o.st price of 2-year-old, once transplanted nursery trees, boxed for 



.shipping $3. 50 



Average cost of shixjping stock f,o planting site and heeling it in . . . .50 

 Average cost of setting out the trees 5. 00 



Total cost 9. 00 



