14 BULLETIN 308, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
about $11.50. The figures indicate the various factors considered in 
logging and manufacture and the cost of operations in cutting 16 
million feet of shortleaf pine during a period of 4 years with 10 set- 
tings of a mill having a daily capacity of 20 thousand feet. The 
timber runs 2 to 3 logs per tree and 8 to 10 logs per thousand, and 
occurs mostly either in small groups or widely scattered over an area 
of 18,000 acres divided by a range of low mountains into two natural 
logging units. The lumber haul to the railroad is from 5 to 11 miles. 
TABLE 8.—TItiemized cost of manufacturing shortleaf pine on the Arkansas 
National Forest. 
Cost per thousand 
board feet. 
Cost of rough lumber on kilns at sawmill (distributed below) ----________ $5.47 
Investment, depreciation, interest, and labor on logging and 
sawmill: 
Two sawmills fully equipped and set up, $6,000 at 7 per 
cenp- depreciation -52* 20. "aa ee eee $0. 10 
Sixteen logging teams, wagons, harness, and chains, $8,000 
atl, per cent depreciation = 22 22 ee ee .30 
Moving sawmill, 10 sets at $300, and 100 miles logging roads 
at $30 per mile, average yearly investment of $1,500____ .38 
Total investment of $15,500: interest at 6 per cent on 
A SEES O74 ( i a aR aN Faye MGEPES Ee EON a .19 
Felling, bucking, and brush disposal_____________________ 1. 00 
Labor, team maintenance, bucking, loading, log haul 14 
MHWeSy) Fert 2 Ae er a Soy ee bes Stee ee 2. 00 
Labor, sawing, and smoke-kiln drying__~_-_______________ 156 
Lumber haul, 8 miles partly over rough roads, 8 trips in 2 days__________ 3.13 
Planer (distributed as follows: chargeable against 60,000,000 feet annual 
CUE) eet Se ee ee 1.47 
Investment— 
Planer, $10,000; real estate, $3,000; lumber in yards, 
$4,500; lumber at mills, $1,500; accounts receivable, 
$6,000 ; total, $25,000. Interest on $25,000 at 6 per cent, 
depreciation on $10,000 (value planer) at T per cent____ .37 
Labor— 
20 men per day (5 counted as lay-off time) at $1.75______ 1.10 
General overhead charges: Taxes, $600; insurance, $750; superintendence, 
$1,200 ; bookkeeper, $900; supplies and repairs, $600; and general office 
expenses, $200: total; '$4,250i0 2 a ee ee eee . 63 
10. 70 
The average cost of manufacture, exclusive of stumpage, was 
$11.07 for five large portable mills averaging 3.5 million feet an- 
nually and representing an interest-bearing capital of $33,300 each. 
This cost of operation plus stumpage averaging $2.59 gives the total 
1 Fifteen thousand five hundred dollars mirus one-half the investment retired in 3 years, 
or $2,430, equals $13,070. Mill cutting 4,000,000 feet per year. 
