The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-25
PULPWOOD BUSINESS
NOW AT STANDSTILL
Thousands Of Cords Piled Up In
Rutland County and No Mar
k6t for Il.

Big truck or sleishs loads logs
aid lumber passing Though the
streets, WhiCl IS a characteristic sight
CT win.er in Rutland, have been not.
ictably absent all OF the present sea.
son because of the uncertainty Of the
lumber market owing to The stump in
bu lding operat ons during the past
two years or more. The pup wood
bus ness particular Y, is at a stand
still and thousands OF cords are now
piled in the woods, by roadsides or
near shipping points because the ma
tsrial cannot be sold at any price.
Except waere II is owned by the big
paper making synd Gates, the man
who paid choppers wages for cult ne
and peeling it is gong TO be out Of
pocket a large sum, persons familiar
with the business explain.
The cutting OF puipwood for ship
ment to the big papermaking centefs
.oIms an industry which has given
many men In tn part OF Vermont a
ivel hood for general on. While
mi lions or cords Of the material have
been stripped from the hills Of Rut-
land county, there is still a big supply
to draw from, II is sad. Except In
cases where men have contracted to
get the wood off OF a certain tract
thin a specified t me- little cutting
pup is in progress at the present
time on account Of the low price
brought about by the fact that many
consumers bought heavily at the peak
price and an effort is made to get rid
Of what Is on hand before restocking.
Today a buy er of pulp wood sets
his own price and it is not over $l2
a cord. 4 tile over year ago the
materia commanded SS5 a cord In
some instances. 1t s said that there
are many hand ers o. pulp living in
towns between this city and Ludlow
y.lo were offered $32 a cord asst sea.
son They held or $35 and they are
still holding their wood being piel
up TO await shipment ard not i'm
prov ng any with exposure to the ele-
ments.
Spruce and balsam are the trees
that are cut mostly by pulp wood
dealers. although there is some de.
mand for poplar for making k nds OF
paper where a glaze is required.
Trunks five inches in ameter and
upwards a-e taken by the axemen and
cut into short lengths OF convenient
size or shipment These sticks are
generally pee ed before being sold
II the wood IS cut in the fall and
nter and so d at once it IS mar.
Reted with the bark on but If cut IN
the spring it'is pee,eh and piled out
If doors to season. Bark comes of
most easily in June and july woods
men declare. In August il begins to
set"
one OF i:'e biggest cuttings OF PUN
awaiting shipment g. now to be
found at Pitts ord where about $500
cords is stacked in every available
vacant space ready to be loaded on
areight cars when there Is a demand
for t. Most Of the pu p supplied by
the towns about Rut and goes to New
York and Philadelphia while the ter
ritory about Mount Holly, said to be
the center of TIE industry in this part
of the state, depends upon lower New
England for It's market,
New York buyers who were in this
vicinity recently stated that Vermont
VII have some competition In Ger
many hereafter In the matter OF puln
wood as German pulp, ground and
hai'ed, can be purchased in New York
more cheap'y than the pulp logs can
be bouf;'t in Vermont and shipped
south, Vermont has the advantage
It is explained, in that the pulp from
her forests is of better grade than
the foreign product and New England
cons'gnments can be relied upon TO
reach their destination on time bet
ter than those from abroad
A we'll informed Rutland man eX.
pressed the op on yesterday that
the pulp wood business would pick
up" with the general business reyiv.
al in the country-Rutland Herald.