UTILIZATION OF SYCAMOEE. 
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The present wholesale prices of different grades of plain and 
quarter-sawed sycamore lumber in the principal centers of its dis- 
tribution are given in Table 8. 
STUMPAGE AND LOG PRICES. 
Figures showing the value of standing sycamore timber for differ- 
ent years are not available. Since the tree occurs in such small 
stands and is usually cut along with other species, a fair price for the 
sycamore alone is difficult to determine. 
Cooperage factories find it to their advantage to buy tracts of 
mixed hardwood timber at a convenient distance and cut and bring 
it to the mill. Such timber tracts have sold in Arkansas for $1.50 
per 1,000 board feet log scale, including sycamore and several other 
species. In normal times the sycamore has been logged and trans- 
ported by railroad to the factory at a cost of from $5 to $6 per 1,000 
board feet, making a total cost to the factory of about $7 per 1,000. 
Factories similarly situated and not owning their timber have gen- 
erally paid from $2 to $3 more per 1,000 board feet for sycamore. 
High-grade sycamore logs cost considerably more. 
Table 8. — Average wholesale prices of 1-inch sycamore lumber in representative centers 
of its distribution and utilization, by quarter years. 
[Prices furnished by the Lumbermen's Bureau.] 
1917 
Centers. 
1918 
1919 
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o 1 . 
NEW YORK. 
4/4 plain: 
-Firsts and seconds $38. 33 
No. 1 common 28. 00 
23.50 
19.17 
28.50 
53.00 
42.67 
No. 2 common 
No. 3 common 
Log run 
4/4 quartered: 
Firsts and seconds 
No. 1 common 
NORFOLK & RICHMOND. 
4/4 plain: 
Firsts and seconds 
No. 1 common 
No. 2 common 
No. 3 common 
Log run 
4/4 quartered: 
Firsts and seconds 
No. 1 common 
EVANSVTLLE. 
4/4 plain: 
Firsts and seconds 
No. 1 common 
.No. 2 common 
No. 3 common 
Log run 
4/4 quartered: 
Firsts and seconds 
No. 1 common 
31.67 
24.00 
18.17 
14.17 
24.50 
47.00 
42.33 
32.17 
23.17 
16.33 
12.33 
29.83 
46.67 
S40.00 
31.00 
25.67 
20.67 
31.67 
55.67 
45.67 
36.00 
27.00 
21.67 
16. 67 
27.67 
49.67 
39.67 
34.17 
25.17 
18.83 
14.83 
25.33 
47.67 
843. 01 1 
34.00 
28.00 
29.00 
$43.00 
34.00 
28.00 
29.00 
34.00' 34.61 
54.00 53.67 
44.00 43.67 
39.00 39.00 
30.001 30.00 
24.00! 24.00 
20.00 20.00 
30.00 30.67 
36. 67i 37.67 
50.00 
40.00 
37.00 
28.00 
22.00 
18.00 
28.00 
48.00 
38.00 
49.67 
39.67 
843. 33 
34.33 
28.33 
29.33 
35.33 
53.00 
43.00 
39.33 
30.33 
24.33 
20.33 
31.33 
49.00 
39.00 
844.83 
35.83 
29.83 
30.83 
36.83 
53.85 
43.83 
40.67 
31.67 
25.67 
21.67 
32.67 
49.67 
39.67 
37.00| 37.33 38.83 
28.00! 28.33 
18.00; 18.33 
00 28.33 
47.67 47.00 
37.67| 37.00 
29. 83 
19.83 
29.83 
846.50 
37. S3 
31.50 
32.50 
38.50 
56.50 
46.50 
42.50 
33.83 
27.50 
23. 50 
34.50 
52.50 
42.50 
40.50 
31.83 
22.83 
28.17 
841.83 844.50 
36.83 39.50 
31.83 
30.17 
36.83 
59.83 
49.83 
37.83 
32. 83 
27.83 
22.83 
33.17 
55.83 
45.83 
35.83 
30.83 
25.83 
20.83 
47.83 
37.83 
50.50 
40.50 
53.83 
43.83 
8,50. 50 
40.50 
30.50 
34.50 
29.50 
39.50 39.50 
S52.S3 
36.17 
32.83 
861.67 
41.67 
40.67 
62.50 
52.50 
40.50 
36.17 
30.50 
25.50 
36.50 
58.50 
48.50 
38.50 
33.50 
28.50 
23.50 
34.50 
56.50 
46.50 
43.50 51.67 
58.50 
48.50 
46.50 
36.50 
26.50 
62.50 
45.83 
50.17 
40.17 
33.17 
36.50 
54.50 
44.50 
44.50 
34.50 
24.50 
41.17 
63.17 
53.17 
45.83 
35.50 
25.50 
34.50 
36.50 
52.50 55.17 
42.50 45.17 
71.67 
51.67 
59.67 
49.67 
48.67 
49.67 
79.67 
69.67 
54.00 
43.67 
32.67 
43.67 
63.67 
53.67 
