Tarred Paper-1-ply (roll 300 square feet), ton, $32.50 to $35.50; 2-ply (roll 108 square feet), 55 to 60 cents roll; 3-ply (roll 108 square feet), 78 to 80 cents. Slater's felt (roll 506 square feet), 75 cents. R. R. M. Stone Surfaced Roofing (roll 110 square feet), $2.75.
Tar—Regular barrel, $2.25; oil barrel, $5.75; coal tar, gallon, 8 cents.
Ties, Railroad—Untreated, cedar and spruce, 40 to 60 cents each; oak and yellow pine, 60 to 80 cents each. Returns from thirteen of the principal American railroads show the cost of their ties to vary between and cents each.
Tooling—Bush-hammering concrete surface, 2 to 5 cents per square foot.
Transporting—The cost of picking up ma terials such as sand or stone, and hauling them a moderate distance in wheelbarrows, is about 20 to 25 cents per cubic yard. With wagons or carts, the cost is about 15 to 23 cents per cubic yard.
Treating Wood—Cheaper processes, 5 to 10 cents per cubic foot. Creosoting, 20 to 60 cents per cubic foot.
Railroad ties, 20 cents each, up.
Creosoted yellow pine in place costs, includ ing cost of wood, $65.00 to $80.00 per 1,000 feet, B. M.
Trees—$1.00 to $5.00 each.
Wood—Prices per thousand feet of board measure, May, 1904.
Hemlock, rough, in lengths up to 20 feet, $17.00 to $19.00. Lengths 22 to 40 feet, $3.25 to $7.00 additional.
Pine, yellow (long leaf), building orders, 12 inches and under, $20.50 to $22.50; 14 inches and up, $26.00 to $29.00; and inch wide boards, $28.00 to $30.00; 2 inch wide plank, heallt face, $30.00 to $31.50.
Yellow pine, of heavy construction, in cargo lots, delivered New York City, $22.00 to $25.00.
Spruce, random cargoes, 2-inch cargoes, $18.00 to $21.00; 6 to 9-inch cargoes, $19.50 to $21.50; 10 and 12-inch cargoes, $21.00 to $23.00.
The framing and placing of wood in a struc ture costs $5.00 to $15.00 per thousand feet of board measure.
White oak timber in wharf construction costs $50.00 to $60.00 per thousand feet in place.
Bridge timber in place, per thousand feet, white oak, $40.00 to $50.00; yellow pine, $35.00 to $45.00; hemlock, $22.00 to $30.00.
More than half the cost of wood is generally due to freight on account of the long distances between the centers of greatest supply and greatest consumption.