APPENDIXES.

APPENDIX 1.

AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT AND VEHICLE MATERIAL.

The table that follows shows the present predominant rate relationship to lumber of the article included under this head, the rate relationship proposed by southern carriers upon the hearing and that proposed by them in briefs filed subsequently, and also all of the data contained in the record as to the value of the various articles listed.

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Of the articles listed in the table, those which on the hearing the carriers proposed to accord lumber rates plus 20 per cent are of somewhat higher value than the preceding articles. Especially are spokes of higher value. But even the highest values of spokes are only slightly in excess of higher values of lumber referred to in Appendix 2.

That the car loading of agricultural implement and vehicle material is fully as great as of lumber is evidenced by the fact that the average car loading for 911 cars received by the International Harvester Corporation between September 1, 1912, and September 1, 1913, was 48,308 pounds.

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APPENDIX 2.

VALUES OF LUMBER AND LUMBER PRODUCTS.

In National Lumber Manufacturers' Association Exhibit No. 1 $9.71 per ton is given as the average value for 77,306 cars of yellow-pine lumber shipped from southern mills during 1914 and $15.43 per ton for 17.125 cars of lumber shipped in 1915 by mills located in various sections of the country and embracing woods of different species. For comparison with the values of lumber reference may be made to the values per ton as disclosed by the record of approximately $50 for silos, $85 for millwork. $19.60 to $91.80 for spokes, $13.75 to $102.39 for veneer, and from $46 to $156.90 for built-up wood.

Some conception of the variation in values of different forms of lumber can be gained from the table given below, which shows the high and low value per ton f. o. b. mill for carload shipments of various mills during the last 10 days of January, May, and September, 1915, with regard to which detailed information is given in National Lumber Manufacturers' Association Exhibit No. 1.

The figures given are the average values per ton for the particular carload shipments covered. It is therefore evident that some of the lumber shipped may have been even of greater value than is Indicated above. The range of average carload values from $2.32 to $83.93 per ton not only includes the average values of millwork, spokes, silos, veneer, and built-up wood, but also largely covers the higher values of these articles when manufactured from ordinary woods. As indicating some of the more valuable forms of lumber with regard to which no question is raised as to the application of lumber rates, reference may be made to the average values f. o. b. mill of $50.37 per ton for 20 cars of oak flooring and of $46.70 per ton for 20 cars of poplar siding given in the answer of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company to the Commission's interrogatories of August 2, 1915, and to the range of average values of from $36.50 to $85.80 per ton for different sizes and species of oak flooring and from $31.30 to $54.90 per ton for beech flooring shipped during 1915 given in Wellford Exhibit No. 9. The testimony shows that quarter-sawed onk runs as high in value as $75 to $150 per 1,000 feet, or from $42 to $84 per ton.