UTILIZATION" OF SYCAMORE. 
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Table 8. — Average wholesale prices of 1-inch sycamore lumber in representative centers 
of its distribution and utilization, by quarter years — Continued. 
1917. 
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LOUISVILLE. 
4 '4 plain: 
Firsts and seconds 
No. 1 common 
$34.50 
25.50 
19.75 
15.75 
24.50 
47.50 
37.50 
$37.00 
28.00 
22.00 
$37.00 
28.00 
18.00 
$37.00 
28.00 
18.00 
28.00 
$38.83 
29.83 
19.83 
29.83 
$40. 50 
31.83 
22. 83 
28.17 
31.50 
50.50 
40.50 
$35.83 
30.83 
25.83 
20.83 
30.50 
53.83 
43.83 
$38. 50 $44. 50 
33.50 34.50 
$45.83 
35. 50 
$54. 17 
43.67 
28.50 24. 50l 25.50 
32.6.7 
18.00' 28.00 
23.50 
34.50 
$22. 00 
28.00 
34.50 36.50 
43.67 
4/4 quartered: 
Firsts and seconds 
No. 1 common 
48.00 
38.00 
47.67 
37.67 
47.00 
37.00 
47.83 
37.83 
56.50 
46.50 
52.50 
42.50 
55.17 
45.17 
63.67 
53.67 
Sycamore logs are often secured in rafts, but the price does not 
differ greatly from that of logs delivered by railroad. In the region 
of Cairo, HI., it is said to cost about $5 per 1,000 board-feet log scale 
to bring the timber to the factory from points up the rivers where it is 
collected. 
MARKETS. 
Sycamore is usually sold in the log, since factories consuming large 
amounts can generally make use of it to best advantage in that form. 
Much of it is marketed in rafts to factories on the lower Ohio and 
Mississippi Rivers. It has often been sold to factories in mixture 
with other species, such as red gum, cottonwood, elm, and ash, for 
from $8 to $10 per 1,000 board-feet log scale for all species. Stave 
and heading factories have generally paid from $10 to $12 per 1,000 
for sycamore logs of fairly good quality, but the price is quite variable, 
depending for the most part on the quality. 
Factories do not usually care for sycamore logs larger than 24 
inches in diameter at the most ; for the larger logs are likely to have 
ring shakes, hollow centers, and hidden defects. Basket factories 
prefer a diameter of from 16 to 20 inches, although they can often use 
sizes as small as 10 inches. Stave factories can use small logs to good 
advantage and prefer sizes that measure between 10 and 15 inches in 
diameter when cut into bolts. Factories making berry boxes and 
tobacco boxes afford the best markets for sycamore logs of good 
quality. In these markets they should bring from $15 to $20 per 
1,000 board feet in normal times. Some factories have paid as much 
as $22 per 1,000 for high grade logs. Sycamore logs can usually be 
sold to chair factories at a fairly good price. Large defective logs 
could formerly be disposed of to makers of butchers' blocks, but so 
few of the old-fashioned sycamore blocks are now made that there is 
practically no market for them for this purpose. The best way to 
dispose of such logs, if they are not too defective, is to convert them 
into lumber. 
