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FOREST PRODUCTS 



Summary of Costs. 



It is very difficult to give average costs which will obtain for any 

 number of operations. Each logging chance presents its own difi&culties 

 and no two operations are identical in scarcely the smallest respect. 



The following are offered as being fairly representative of the average 

 logging costs found in the western red cedar region of northern Idaho: 



Items. 



Stumpage 



Cutting and peeling 



Skidding 



Transportation 



Storage and loading 



Sales and general expense. 



Cost per Running Foot. 



L6w. 



$.oi 

 .008 

 .005 

 .005 

 .01 

 .01 



$.048 



Average. 



$.02 

 .01 

 .008 

 .01 



•°i5 

 •015 



$.078 



High. 



•03 



.CIS 



.01 



.02 



.02 



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Photograph by U. S. Forest Service. 



Fig. 85. — Loading southern white cedar telephone and telegraph poles at Wilmington, 

 North CaroHna. The swampy regions of eastern Virginia and the Carolinas contain 

 some excellent stands of this cedar. 



The highest figures will hold for operations where long poles are being 

 logged as a rule and where transportation is more expensive. The min- 



