INCENSE CEDAR. 
Table 3. — Consumption of incense cedar in 1912, classified by products. 
Use. 
Market price or value. 
Total 
Range. 
Average. 
value. 
Lumber 
Feet b. m. 
22,500,000 
3, 500, 000 
3,050,000 
2,500,000 
500,000 
500,000 
250, 000 
10,000 
Per cent. 
68.6 
10.6 
9.2 
7.6 
1.5 
1.5 
.7 
.3 
§10 to $75 per 1,000 feet. . 
$15 per 1,000 feet i 
$337, 500 
Ties . 
20,000 
44,225 
35, 226 
Pencil slats 
$14.50 per 1,000 feet 2 
10 to 35 cents each 
/Stubs, 30 cents 
$14.50 per 1,000 feet 2 
18 cents each 
30 cents 
Poles and stubs 
\Poles, §1.25 to $4.50 
$4.50 to $6.50 per cord. . . 
§2.50 to $5 per 1,000 feet,. 
$7 per 1,000 feet 
$1.50 
3,900 
5,500 
7,500 
$5.50 per cord 
Shingles 
$3.75 per 1,000 feet 
$7 per 1,000 feet 
210 
Total 
32,810,000 
100.0 
454,061 
i Mill run No. 2 common or better. 
2 2f-inch rough, f. o. b. cars at main-line points. 
Incense cedar when sound makes excellent lumber, for it is light, 
soft, and easily worked. It is not, however, a good lumber-producing 
tree, because of its short body, rapid taper, and susceptibility to 
" dry-rot " or " peckiness." So common is this that it is a common 
practice in cruising incense cedar to deduct from 30 to 50 per cent 
for cull on account of it. Only the occasional sound trees and por- 
tions of logs free from dry-rot are sawed into boards, the rest, unless 
too badly honeycombed, being cut into dimension stuff or ties. 
The yield of various grades of lumber from an incense cedar tree 
depends very largely, of course, on the amount of " dry-rot." This 
varies so widely, however, in different trees in one locality as well as 
in trees in different localities that data based on the yields of 
"pecky" trees would have very little general application. The 
yields indicated in Table 4 are based therefore on sound trees and 
are fairly typical of the yield where there is no " dry-rot." 
Table 4. — Yield by grade of incense-cedar lumber. 
Grade. 
Tree No. 1. 
Tree No. 2. 
Yield in 
board 
feet. 
Per cent. 
Yield in 
board 
feet. 
Per cent. 
Clear 
500 
900 
700 
500 
300 
17 
31 
24 
17 
11 
1,360 
2,340 
1,890 
1,350 
810 
17 
29 
24 
17 
13 
No. 1 common 
No. 2 common 
No. 3 common 
Cull 
Total 
2,900 
100 
7,750 
100 
The price of rough incense cedar lumber, mill run, averages $15 
per thousand feet board measure at the mill. The prices paid for 
it in its manufactured form at centers of distribution and consump- 
