. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1418 Canadian Forestry Journal, November, 1917 figure low, runs from $15 to $20 per 1,000 feet. These items of cost tell their own stories of the difficulties encountered in railway transportation and load- ing. Twelve dollars per 1,000 feet for loading logs on shipboard would sound like a hold-up price in this country, but this loading is done in localities where labor-saving devices are scarce and many difficulties are encountered. It is pretty much the same story in the matter of railway hauling. Most of the timber is
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. 1418 Canadian Forestry Journal, November, 1917 figure low, runs from $15 to $20 per 1,000 feet. These items of cost tell their own stories of the difficulties encountered in railway transportation and load- ing. Twelve dollars per 1,000 feet for loading logs on shipboard would sound like a hold-up price in this country, but this loading is done in localities where labor-saving devices are scarce and many difficulties are encountered. It is pretty much the same story in the matter of railway hauling. Most of the timber is no more than twenty-five miles from the coast, yet often there is a railway charge involved running up to $15 per 1,000 feet. The ocean-going freight is un- commonly high at the present time but the other items of cost are not unusual, and they serve to illustrate graphically why it is mahogany tim- ber is high by the time it reaches the consumer. Perhaps some day we shall be able to introduce more mod- ern methods, and cut down some of these items of cost. Meantime, how- ever, other items involving increased expense will likely accrue, such as having to go further int-o forests after the timber. Try This Stump Pulle __j £^ rm»,^m. The Smith Stump Puller ^C C#fff* nfSN will take out every tree ^ and stump by the roots, clearing from one to three acres a day, doing' fork of twenty men. We w end for our 3 year guarao igalnst breakage trial proposition , Smith Grubber 11 Smith Sta. nt. LaCre -â»â.* YALE UNIVERSITY FOREST SCHOOL New Haven, Connecticut, YALE University Forest School is a graduate department of Yale Uni- versity. It is the oldest existing forest school in the United States and exceeds any other in th« number of its alumni. A general two-year course leading to the degree of Master of Forestry is offered to graduates of universities, colleges and scientific institutions of high standmg, and, under exceptional conditions, to men who have had
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