less it is possible to keep the plant busy the year round. It will 
be a losing business from the start. Although the log supply is 
definitely assured, this will afford no encouragement unless an 
outlet for the lumber is equally certain, and it does not seem that 
there is a sufficiently large demand for the lumber either locally 
or abroad to launch a venture involving such a large outlay of cap¬ 
ital without an assurance of- a return. If the enterprise is start 
ad on a small scale, it can not be expected to yield large returns . 
In fact- the existing mills have the advantage, because they are cut 
ting only such woods for which there is some call locally, and 
moreover these mill operators are buyiiiggonly such logs which have 
been especially selected in the wood, and. from which a much larger 
proportion of high grade of lumber can be cut than from the gen¬ 
eral run of logs of all kinds and grades of logs which would mill¬ 
ed in a clear cutting operation. 
The proposition would be greatly simplified, if the tract 
had a good quantity of mahogany and cedar, for then it ’would be 
possible to export them and include regularly in the shipments par 
cels of other woods to try out in the foreign markets, which would 
eventually be accepted for special lines of manufacture and at a 
price fair to the millman. healers eager to procure mahogany wou 
would accept at times these small parcels of other woods on a gam 
ble and finally sell them. But to make a smaller or larger ship- 
kinds now, either in the log or in the 
ment of the se^Little-known k$ 
form of lumber*, even if cut Recording to the American standard 
grades-, would result in an almost total loss, because American 
wood users will not accept new woods in place of those they have 
been requisitioning except at prices that are very low, Ilahogany 
buyers require ton feet of other woods to every foot of mahogany. 
