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$12.69. The labor is more largely negro than white, logging is in 
hilly country, with contract team hauling, and usually railroad log- 
ging spurs built up the larger depressions or drainage tributaries 
with rail hauls of 10 to 40 miles. 
TABLE 7.—Average cost of manufacture of shortleaf pine by 30 mills. 
Range of costs nee 
Operation. per pe cae Meboard 
e feet. 
Logging: Dollars. | Dollars. 
Cat TT eae pe ose nies Wa Sercisicieidalisalspa olnereialuve sjeldisicineelsicce bye se oles 0. 28 to 1.00 0. 63 
EVaUMIM PRG Mbeams apes ee Sas i ae ote. sciele « Siciaieie sieiiatctne elem Sears aimee 1.00 to 4. 56 2.24 
IE OAM AYO TMICATS eee ee spe ay ee west aE alec, germ nieeilcls Saleieveca,b dGinierete an sinne cleo Sinise Ste -17 to 1.50 48 
Tecpel oyey | Tokay ol Aes CSA ga a ta cage ep Ie a eg ec ea eS 1.00 to 5. 49 1.94 
Ovenkeadie@hanee sie we aed PARERNNR EEC ees Se ead Pa ee a ke -08 to .25 .18 
ba) eee er ee EPS opus fons ata a ae ayes aye Sn aterats miarereiniale toe stsieialals'« e:eisisi|(o sig'e bistaie ere eect 5.47 
Milling: a 
Sat yin eae ee eee YG Shue ee tere RM Oe ea be oie cibaaetele mated 1.10 to 3.00 1.74 
ROM oe Gidtidd Gos Bee tts et I OA a ie a nae Mier aie ae oe tee ae Lae -11 to 1.50 -73 
IPIBIINDIRS 5 eo aban Soe Sel TE RM COTE BSS ate eee a ee eS ae . 64 to 3.00 1. 46 
Hauling with teams...-...-.....----- 5 el SE SRR nN ie a LEP CA ph -55 to 3. 00 1.42 
ZO ACIN CCONNCATS eee Ss eek oot Pa wee, Mien iemecey sake ey . unfst suk eye SONS -20 to .75 . 40 
Owner hneadtehange me meneame ease ac Se a aah ania moe ee SN EE a 35 to 3. 82 1.47 
UNG Ss SS G35 5 Gb bop OE aoe OS SIAR Re Rae is MOM see a een Ot nape Gam Ra ISiare a SER rN [yin eo Piensa 7.22 
Ahotallogein tar dimalllamcs vase oe Mee Ee ap Soe og se de tsb eagle Bialiels ujeisinidalgiste sels 2s 12.69 
1 Logging mostly in hilly country and milling by both large and small permanent mills in central and 
western Arkansas in 1912. 
On the National Forests of Arkansas, portable mills with daily 
capacities of 10 to 20 thousand board feet saw the bulk of the timber. 
These mills cut about 2 million feet to each set, and thus greatly 
reduce the high cost of the log haul in rough country. Generally 
each company has its own planers at the most convenient railroad 
point, to which the rough lumber is hauled for distances of from 6 to 
15 miles. In some sections smaller mills cutting 5 to 7 thousand feet 
daily are the prevailing type. The capital represented by these mills 
averages from $5,000 to $8,000 each. The ownership of the land is 
composite and the government timber is more or less cut up with 
small private holdings in various stages of development. The log- 
ging and milling costs do not vary widely and the present lumber 
prices are such as to allow net returns of 16 to 22 per cent on the full 
interest-bearing investment. A careful study of five companies oper- 
ating on the Arkansas National Forest shows an average total cost, 
exclusive of stumpage, of $11.07 f. 0. b. cars for finished lumber. 
The costs shown in Table 8 are for one of the representative mills 
working where the timber is scattered in the hilly portions of western 
Arkansas. The cost of operation, $10.70 per thousand feet, was next 
to the lowest for five companies in a region where the highest cost was 
1 Reports by Messrs. Dorr Skeels and Quincy Randles, of the Forest Service, spring of 
1913. 
