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timber are, however, beginning to feel the pressure of interest charges, 
taxes, and other items of expense connected with carrying stumpage. 
Operations have recently started on a large scale on two such holdings, 
and there are indications that several more will follow within the 
next 5 years should market conditions improve with the closing of 
the war in Europe. The carrying charges on National Forest stump- 
age are borne by the United States, and a constantly increasing num- 
ber of lumbermen are operating in Government timber. It is pre- 
dicted that the annual cut of California pine will reach 650,000,000 
feet by 1920. Of this amount 150,000,000 should be sugar pine. 
Table 5 gives the number and type of the principal mills at present 
producing sugar-pine lumber, together with their average and total 
annual output of this species. 
TABLE 5. 
Type of mill. 
oes pnele Cireular. Total. 
Namiberjotenaillsy ease Se = 5 ovo me se cesses saree eeeteyae wales 10 8 15 33 
Average annual output, feet, b. m-.....-..-----..-.---- } 8,008,000 | 2,500,000 704,000 | 11,212,000 
- Rotalannualouupuueieet, bs tae sees. sees en sme eeels | 80, 080, 000 | 20,002,000 | 10,561,000 110, 643, 600 
GRADE PRODUCT OF SUGAR-PINE LOGS. 
The average quality of sugar-pine timber is fairly well indicated 
by the results of a mill tally of 855 logs made during the summer of 
1914 at about the middle of the range of this species from north to 
south. Farther south the quality is better, and farther north, 
poorer. The logs are divided into three grades: Grade I, or clear 
logs; Grade II, or shop logs; and Grade III, or rough, common logs. 
Both sound and defective logs were tallied. Grade I logs made up 
22.7 per cent oi the net log scale; Grade II, 42.8 per cent, and Grade 
III, 34.5 per cent. 
Including both sound and defective logs, the quality of lumber 
within each log grade, by actual tally, is show in Table 6. 
TaBLE 6.—Lumber grade product of sugar pine within log grades. 
land 2}. Aus- ei come 
Grade of log. _~| 3 clear. |C select.) .- 5. 1 shop. | 2 shop. | 3 shop.| com- Box. 
clear. tralian. aaaia: mon. 
Per ct. | Peret.| Perct.| Per.ct.| Perct.\ Perct.| Per ct. | Per ct. | Perct.| Per ct. 
Grader Pigg so: 33.6 9.3 0.2 0. 19.3 11.0 2.6 LOS peas sea 8.5 
Gradenilee ssc 4.2 2.6 oll gal 15.9 22.3 Cav 37.9 0.4 8.8 
Gradeniiine 2 ara se: oY) pp Acesaealloases dag Pt 6.8 6.6 Up Seales emeete 19.4 
Aliigrades.<..2 2.4.2: 9.4 3.3 a oD | arOnies 1459 | 612 Nte4t 9 2 12.5 
The proportion of each of the principal lumber grades produced 
from diameter classes of sound logs is given in Table 7. The diame- 
ter classes are based upon the small-end diameters of logs and are 
inclusive. 
