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advanced in proportion for various reasons. Competition, stimulated by active railroad building, 

 opening up of virgin fields of supply, improved machinery, systematized methods of logging and 

 of handling and marketing material have tended to keep the price down. 



Meanwhile stumpage has increased rapidly for such kinds as show rapid decrease in supply. 

 Thus white pine stumpage more than doubled in ten years, while walnut, tulip poplar, and ash 

 stumpage has increased manyfold as tbe supply has grown scarcer. 



In the markets, while the average price for lumber has advanced but little, the better grades 

 have appreciated disproportionately. From the carefully collected census statistics for ship- 



JExport price of lumber from 1835 to 1895. 

 [The pi ices given represent market value at time of exportation in the ports whence the lumber was exported, averaged for all ports.] 



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Boards, Joists and scantlings, M ft. '-'Timber, 100 cubic ft 



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building, which requires all first-class material, the average price per 1,000 feet, £. M., for the 

 country at large for the following kinds appears: 



Kind. 



Average. 



White oak. 

 Other oaka. 

 Hard pine . 

 White pme 



Fir 



Spruce 



Cedar 



Cyprehs 



Average of all 



$30. 70 

 34. 90 

 24.40 

 34. 70 

 21,00 

 20.00 

 40.00 

 31. 60 

 30.00 



Lowest. 



$19.00 (Indiana) 



20 00 (Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia) . 



12. 00 (Alabama) 



20.00 (Minnesota) 



15.00 (Washington) 



12.00 (Delaware) 



17.00 (Missouri) 



18.00 (Mississippi) 



Highest. 



$125. 00 (California). 

 102.00 (California). 



42. 00 (Iowa). 

 100 00 (Georgia). 



80.00 (Massachusetts). 



50.00 (Washington). 



55 00 (Connecticut). 



50.00 (Delaware). 



Firewood, even in the densely settled parts, remains stationary in price, on account of aban- 

 doned farms and culled woodlands producing: it in abundance; in fact, in many sections its value 

 has decreased, competition of coal aiding in its reduction. 



Prices for lumber and stumpage of white pine. 

 [Compiled from report of Saginaw Board of Trade.] 



Year. 



1866., 

 1867.. 

 1868 . , 

 I860 . , 



1870 . 



1871 . , 

 1872.. 

 1873.. 



1874 . , 



1875 . . 

 1876.. 



Lumber, per 1,000 

 feet B. M. 



$11. 50 to $12. 00 



12.00 

 12 00 

 12 50 

 12 00 

 12.50 

 13.00 

 11.50 

 10.50 

 9.50 

 9.00 



12. 50 

 12.50 

 13.00 

 12. 50 

 13.00 

 12.00 

 11.00 

 10.00 

 10.00 

 9.50 



Stumpage, per 1,000 

 feet. 



$1. 00 to 

 1.25 

 1.50 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 



£00 

 2.00 

 2.25 

 2.25 



$1. 23 

 1.50 

 1.75 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.75 

 2.75 



Year, 



1877 

 1878 

 1879 

 1880 

 1881 

 ioo-j 



1883 

 1884 

 1885 

 1886 

 1887 



Lumber, per 1,000 

 feet B. M. 



$0.23 

 9.50 

 10.50 

 11.50 

 12.50 

 14.00 

 13,50 

 12.50 

 12.50 

 12.50 

 12.50 



to 



$9.75 

 10 00 

 11.00 

 12.00 

 13. 00 

 14.50 

 14.00 

 13.00 

 13,00 

 13.00 

 13.00 



Stumpage, per 1.000 

 feet. 



$2.25 to $2. 75 



2. 25 2. 75 



2.50 2,75 



2. 75 3, 00 



3. 00 4. 00 

 3. 50 4. 50 



4. 00 5. 00 

 4. 00 5. 00 

 4. 50 6. 50 

 4.50 6.50 

 4. 50 6. 50 



