Table 2.29— Average pine stumpage prices for sawtimber and pulpwood in the South, by source of price data, selected years 1880-1985 
Year 
1880 
1885 
1890 
1895 
1900 
1905 
1910 
1915 
1920 
1925 
1930 
1935 
1940 
1945 
1950 
1955, 
1960 
1965 
1970 
1975 
1980 
1985 
South— private? 
Current 
dollars 
0.14 
17 
.32 
.38 
.88 
2.70 
1.93 
2.66 
3.52 
3.36 
1985 
dollars 
1.15 
1.67 
3.41 
4.39 
9.59 
26.11 
17.15 
19.52 
73K 
20.18 
23.95 
29.57 
NC/VA— private? 
Current 
dollars 
0.32 
39 
Sawtimber! 
1985 
dollars® 
2.64 
Seid 
6.24 
10.43 
7.88 
12.91 
19.39 
22.81 
24.80 
31.32 
30.14 
31.46 
South— public* 
Lousiana— private* 
Current 1985 Current 1985 
dollars dollars® dollars dollars® 
3.63 27.67 — — 
7.46 52.44 — — 
9.74 50.66 — — 
27.18 97.93 — — 
32.96 113.67 31.80 108.24 
30.72 99.96 29.80 96.97 
32.30 102.11 30.72 97.21 
51.16 141.98 51.90 143.85 
82.78 153.23 95.54 174.29 
148.86 178.27 177.30 213.49 
140.00 140.00 148.04 148.04 
South— private® 
Current 
dollars 
1985 
dollars® 
Pulpwood! 
South— public’ 
Current 
dollars 
Lousiana— private® 
1985 Current 1985 
dollars® dollars —_ dollars® 
6.05 — — 
6.63 — — 
5.13 — — 
8.59 — — 
13.13 3.85 13.08 
— 4.20 13.93 
— 4.43 14.05 
— 4.64 13.13 
— 6.29 11.47 
— 10.87 12.70 
= 16.19 16.19 
' Unit measure for sawtimber is thousand board feet. See footnotes 4 and 5 for log rule used. Unit measure for pulpwood is standard cords. 
? Prices for privately owned, second-growth southern pine stumpage in the southern pine region (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, 
Oklahoma, and Texas) , as reported in Steer, H.B. 1938. Stumpage prices of privately owned timber in the United States. Tech. Bull. 626. Washington, 
DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture. 162 p. 
3 Prices for privately owned, second-growth southern pine stumpage in North Carolina and Virginia, as reported by Steer (1938). 
* Prices for national forest timber sales, all species, 1935-49, Scribner C log rule, as reported in U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 1964. 
The demand and price situation for forest products, 1964. Misc. Publ. 983. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 50 p. Prices 
for national forest timber sales, southern pine only, 1950-84, Scribner C log rule, as reported in U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 1985. 
U.S. timber production, trade, consumption, and price statistics. Misc. Publ. 1450. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service: 
84 p. 
> Prices for privately owned pine stumpage in Louisiana, Doyle log rule for sawtimber, as reported by Louisiana Department of Agriculture, Office of 
Marketing. [Quarterly issues.] Quarterly forest products reports. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana Department of Agriculture, Office of Marketing. 
© Prices for privately owned southern pine, 1937-55, as reported by USDA Forest Service. 
7 Prices for national forest timber sales, southern pine, 1935-55, as reported by USDA Forest Service. 
® Derived by dividing the price in current dollars by the Bureau of Labor Statistics producer price index for all commodities (1985 = 100). 
Note: Prices are computed as a 5-year moving average for available years of each series. 
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