WESTERN YELLOW PINE IN OREGON. 
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LUMBER GRADES. 
In Oregon two sets of grades are used, one in use through all the 
eastern part of the State, and the other in southern Oregon where 
the lumber is shipped to California. Table 13 shows the names of the 
principal grades and their average prevailing values f. o. b. mill or 
railroad during the past two years in two representative regions, 
the Blue Mountains and the Klamath Lake region. It should be 
remembered that the value of each grade is constantly changing 
and that the percentage of grade is very variable from tract to tract. 
The table is therefore an illustration, not a mathematical average: 
Table 13. — Average value of the various grades of lumber from two typical yellow-pine 
regions in Oregon. 
Blue Mountain region. 
Klamath region. 
Name of grade. 
Value per M 
feet. 
Name of grade. 
Value per M 
feet. 
835 to $45 
30 to 37 
20 to 28 
25 to 28 
16 to 19 
11 to 14 
21 to 24 
14 to 18 
11 to 14 
8 to 10 
About $35 00 
About 30.00 
C select 
About 30.00 
About 24.00 
About 17.00 
Box 
About 12.50 
No. 4 common 
PLANTING. 
Direct seeding with yellow pine in Oregon, either by sowing the 
seed broadcast or in prepared spots, does not promise good results 
so far as is indicated by the experiments already made. Better 
results will undoubtedly be seoured by the planting of nursery-grown 
seedlings, though it will cost more initially. Since yellow pine 
produces such a long taproot, it is rather a difficult species to handle 
in the nursery and in field planting; therefore, plants older than 2 or 
3 years, i. e., those about 6 inches tall, can not ordinarily be used 
profitably in forestation work. As yet, but little planting of yellow 
pine has been done in Oregon, and the experimental areas so far 
planted aggregate less than 100 acres; but the indications are that 
careful methods on reasonably appropriate sites will give satisfactory 
results. The average cost of establishing a forest plantation of 
yellow pine, 800 trees to the acre, is estimated as follows: 
Per acre. 
Cost price of 2-year-old, once transplanted nursery trees, boxed for 
shipping S3. 50 
Average cost of shipping stock to planting site and heeling it in . . . .50 
Average cost of setting out the trees 5. 00 
Total cost 9. 00 
