Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Greenheart
When greenheart was first exploited $1 per cubic foot was the price usually paid for the timber at the point of shipment. While the present price paid for greenheart is considerably less, the wood now obtained is of an inferior quality, since it is immature and, couse quently, less durable. Tracts are now being cut over in some places for the third time, and trees which previously escaped observation or were thought too small to be used are. Taken. Logs 2 feet in diameter or over yield the best grades. Trees of smaller dimensions have a good deal of sap and are not durable. Their timber, moreover, is likely to shrink and split considerably in seasoning. At present prac tically all the greenheart timber is shipped to Liverpool and New York. These are the two chief distribution points, and the necessary reshipping of such extraordinarily heavy material approximately doubles the cost of direct shipment.
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