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respectively at 34½ and 45 millions. This is not much
for such an enormous area, being only one first-class
tree and 11/5 second-class tree per acre; even if we
calculate the numbers on the dry ground alone they are
only 23/5 and 32/5. Nevertheless there are large districts
where we find nineteen large trees per acre. For the
trees sold, the average price during the period 1861-95
has been 2 marks 14 penni per tree, or 4 marks 77
penni per cubic metre. In the richer districts the price
has been 6 marks 58 penni per cubic metre. Now the
price has gone up considerably, even in the far north,
where it was once almost impossible to sell timber.
In some districts as much as 16 marks per tree has
been obtained, a price which is high even when the
present price of boards and deals is allowed for, and
can be explained only by the purchasers being obliged
to obtain large trees in order to fulfil some foreign
order. At all events, these 80 million trees
represent, at present prices, a capital of more than 100
million marks. The Crown forests themselves are
probably now worth 200 millions. During the years
1874-83 they furnished to the saw-mills on an average
10½ per cent. of the logs used there, and from 1884
to 1893 14 per cent. In bulk, however, it was
probably double this amount, because the trunks and
logs from the Crown forests are considerably larger
than those from private woods. In 1898 the value
of the total amount of wood sold from the Crown
forests was 2,820,000 marks; in 1899 the amount was
5,120,000 marks, and for the first six months of 1900
it was already 4,470,000 marks; 930,000 trees
making a total of 390,000 cubic metres. The sale might
probably be increased yet more without hurting the
forests.
The present condition of these Crown forests will
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