It is not a high-priced wood, considering that it is an 

 import .from foreign countries and is nor very plentiful 

 there. It is lumbered by cheap labor and is brought from 

 the interior mountains where it grows. Transportation 

 from the stump to the seashore is often by oxen. The 

 average cost in Florida is |24.02 per 1,000 feet log meas- 

 ure. It is too cheap to offer much temptation to the imi- 

 tator. 



A million and a half feet of cypress was reported for 

 this industry in Florida, but the cost per thousand was 

 less than half that of Spanish cedar. 



