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FOREST PRODUCTS 



The " seconds " or No. 2 ties were those which failed to pass inspection 

 as No. I ties: 



Stumpage 



Felling and hewing 



Hauling to railroad (av. 10 miles) 

 Loading on cars 



Totals 



Prices received 



Profit 



White and 

 Chestnut Oak. 



Firsts. Seconds. 



$.20 



• IS 



• 15 



.02 



$.52 

 .60 



$.08 



$.12 

 . 10 



. 10 



.02 



$■34 

 .40 



$.06 



Red Oak. 



Firsts. Seconds. 



$.12 

 . 12 



•i.i 

 .02 



$.41 

 ■47 



$.06 



$ 10 

 .08 

 . 12 

 .02 



$■32 

 ■37 



$■05 



Beech. 



Firsts. Seconds. 



. 10 

 . 12 

 .IS 



■39 

 .42 



$.03 



$■08 

 .08 

 . 12 

 .02 



$.30 

 ■32 



$.02 



The following data were supplied by the U. S. Forest Service from 

 a tie chance on the Tongue River within the Bighorn National Forest 

 in Wyoming, where 1,555,000 standard gauge hewed and sawed ties were 

 taken out on a flume operation. Most of the timber was lodgepole pine 

 and a very limited amount of Engelmann spruce. Most of the ties were 

 hewed. 



Felling, bucking, limbing and hewing (for hewed ties) 



Skidding 



Hauling to flume, including cost of temporary roads 



Brush disposal and cutting defective trees 



Flaming or driving to mill 



Sawing 



Fluming 27 miles, driving to railroad and handling in yard. 



Depreciation of improvements and equipment 



Maintenance of improvements and equipment 



General and miscellaneous expenses 



Totals . 



Hewed Ties. Sawed Ties. 



$.3Si 



$■348 



On an operation in the Northwest where 22,000 Douglas fir, western 

 larch and a few lodgepole pine ties were cut the following costs were noted. 

 A 160-rod chute was used to get the ties down a steep place followed by 

 a 4^-mile wagon haul where two trips per day were taken and frequently 

 loads of 50 to 60 ties handled per load. Skidding for a distance of | to J 

 mile was done by hand. 



