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BULLETIN 604, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
ESTIMATED STAND. 
In round numbers, the available supply of incense cedar in Cali- 
fornia is estimated at 10 billion feet board measure, and in Oregon 
and Nevada combined perhaps 1 billion more, or 11 billion feet in 
all. Of this, approximately one-half is privately owned, the rest 
being distributed among the various National Forests, parks, etc. 
Table 8 gives the estimated stand on the various National Forests in 
California and Nevada. 
Table S. — Incense cedar on National Forests. 
National Forest. 
Er::n:i:el 
sx and. 
Per cent 
of total. 
National Porest. 
Estimated 
;:inl. 
Per cent 
of total. 
Feet, 5. m. 
Stanislaus ' 747,232.000 14.5 
Sierra 731.177.000 14.2 
Klamath 729.710.000 14.2 j 
Sequoia , 580,605,000 11.9 
Plumas ! 500,000.000 9.7 
Trinity ; 416,575.000 5.1 
Shasta 375.915.000 7.3 
Tahoe ! m 000'. 000 5.5 
Lassen. ' 215.000.000 4.1 
Feet, b. m. 
Eldorado 200.000.000 
California 19x 666, 000 
Cleveland. 50j 000. 000 
Angeles 47, 5S7, 000 
Mo d oc 29, 850, 000 
SantaBarbara 7,000.000 
Mono 550, 000 
Total 5,129, 576. OCO 
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STT7MPAGE VALUE. 
The stumpage value of incense cedar on private lands, where it is 
sold with other species for lumber, varies from 82.50 per thousand, 
for pencil wood and select post material, to 25 cents per thousand. 
The average price per 1.000 feet board measure received in sales of 
incense cedar on the National Forests during the past 11 years are 
as follows : 
1905 -SO. 25 
1906 . 45 
1907 .64 
190S .88 
1909 
1910 
SI. 25 
1.30 
1911 
1. 50 
1912 
.92 
1913 SO. 60 
1914 . 95 
1915 .80 
The value of the remaining stand, based on the prevailing stump- 
age price for incense cedar on Xational Forests in 1915, amounts to 
approximately $8,500,000 or 89.000.000. For special uses it is worth 
at least three times that amount to-day and is bound to become still 
more valuable in the future as the supply diminishes. 
THE WOOD. 
The wood of incense cedar bears closest re-semblance both in gross 
and minute structure to the bald cypress and western red cedar. It 
is not likely, however, that incense cedar will be substituted for these 
woods, so that the question of identity will seldom be raised. 
