THE FORESTS. EESOURCES OF THE WORLD. 



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11 cents per cubic foot; in Slavonia, at from 11 to 17^ cents per cubic 

 foot. The market prices of saw timber vary from 44 to 55 cents per 

 cubic foot, and sometimes go even as high as 77 cents. Coniferous 

 wood does not command as high prices and is sold at 3.4 to 6.7 cents 

 per cubic foot on the stump, while the finished product in the lumber 

 yard brings as high as from 16| to 44 cents per cubic foot. 



The prices per cubic foot vary according to the species and the kind 

 of wood, as may be seen from the table below: 



Prices of lumber and cord wood on stump And in yard. 





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On Stump. 



In lumber yard. 



Oak 



LUMBEB. 



Cents. 

 3. 8 to 11. 2 

 8.7 

 3. 7 to 11. 2 

 1.7 to 6.2 

 2.2 to 8.3 



$0. 60 to $3. 20 

 $1. 31 to $2. 60 



Cents. 

 9.0 to 13.7 



Beech 



11.0 



Elm and maple . 



7.3 to 13.5 



Spruce and pine 



3. 8 to 8. 4 



Larch 



5.0 to 10.0 



Oak 



CORD WOOD. 



$2. 07 to $4. 02 



Beech 



$2. 07 to $4. 01 







In Croatia and Slavonia the stumpage is given as somewhat higher, 

 especially for oak saw logs and oak staves. 



BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. 



In considering the forest resources of Austria- Hungary one must 

 mention also the two Provinces under the control of Austria — Bosnia 

 and Herzegovina. 



The forests of Bosnia and Herzegovina occupy 6,380,000 acres, of 

 which 5,016,500 acres are state forests and the remaining 1,363,500 

 acres form private property. 



In the state forests 3,572,000 acres are high forest and 1,444,500 

 acres are coppice. The private forests have 351,000 acres of high 

 forest and 1,012,500 acres of coppice. 



The -annual cut amounts to 7,487,000 cubic feet of coniferous spe- 

 cies, 1,413,000 cubic feet of oak, and 9,006,000 cubic feet of beech, 

 besides a large amount of oak bark for tanning. The exploitation 

 of the forests of Bosnia and Herzegovina is just beginning. Twenty 

 years ago they were hardly used at all. . 



ANNUAL CUT AND CONSUMPTION FOR THE EMPIRE OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. 



According to the latest data, the annual cut in all of the forests 

 of Austria-Hungary, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, was 

 2,827,000,000 cubic feet of wood, or 53 cubic feet per acre. Of this 

 cut one half was sawed into firewood, the other half made into saw 

 logs, at an average price on the stump of 3.5 cents per cubic foot. 



The exports for the period between 1895 and 1899 were, on an aver- 

 age, equal to 320,000,000 cubic feet on the stump. Deducting this 

 320,000,000 cubic feet from the total cut (2,827,000,000 cubic feet), 

 there remains about 2,500,000,000 cubic feet of wood for home con- 

 sumption. This, with a population of 43,825,000, would give a con- 



