. Timber depletion, lumber prices, lumber exports, and concentration of timber ownership. Report on Senate resolution 311. Forests and forestry; Lumber; Timber. 54 TIMBER DEPLETIOSr, PRICES, EXPORTS, AND OWNERSHIP. 380 360 2<0 320 20C leo /60 MO ^/20 ^OO 80 60 'io 30 C/ior/- Show/ngr Perceni-a'g'e Increases in Transporfot/on C^c?r^es^ Cost of Lu/?7ber Shocks to Pefai/ers^ fPefai/ Operai-/n^ E^xpense^, an of Ay&ra^e /Pefcf// Lumber Prices. CScfsec/ on ayeraffe va/Ue^ per M f^eef as Gho^vn by countri/ c/ords in M/nnesoi^a one/ Dakofas.) A/ofe- h-'ercento^e jncrease -Figured on J90^ va/ues
. Timber depletion, lumber prices, lumber exports, and concentration of timber ownership. Report on Senate resolution 311. Forests and forestry; Lumber; Timber. 54 TIMBER DEPLETIOSr, PRICES, EXPORTS, AND OWNERSHIP. 380 360 2<0 320 20C leo /60 MO ^/20 ^OO 80 60 'io 30 C/ior/- Show/ngr Perceni-a'g'e Increases in Transporfot/on C^c?r^es^ Cost of Lu/?7ber Shocks to Pefai/ers^ fPefai/ Operai-/n^ E^xpense^, an of Ay&ra^e /Pefcf// Lumber Prices. CScfsec/ on ayeraffe va/Ue^ per M f^eef as Gho^vn by countri/ c/ords in M/nnesoi^a one/ Dakofas.) A/ofe- h-'ercento^e jncrease -Figured on J90^ va/ues as a i 0^7 '%2B0 ^260 3-fO 300 fao I60 KO 220 /90S /30e /307 /308 /909 /9/0 /3// J3J^ /3/3 /5/^ /9/S /5/6 J9/7 /9/a /SI9 - Years - Fig. 20. Several of the largest companies operating both mills and ^retail yards, for example, sought to stabilize prices on their own responsibility, and their efforts unquestionably had a far- reaching effect in breaking the rising prices and bringing about a slight decUne, ranging from $1 to $10 per thousand, according to grade. Many lumbermen admit that prices went so high that demand was automatically checked. There is ample evidence throughout the Middle West that lumber prices reached a point which aroused public indignation in many communities, and that this feeling, combined with a widely advertised announce- ment of one of the largest producing and distributing com- panies that it proposed to stabilize prices on the basis of its January list, resulted in a sharp falUng off in buying. An extract from the announcement issued by this company late in February reads as follows: The Interests comprising the group have come to recognize that this condition of the lumber market is Injurious to the public and to the industry generally; that the uncertainty even more than the price level is demoralizing and results in enhanced cost of building and discour- ages construction, and that unless something is done to check the ^'i!.Tu "''^ *
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