Virginia Cooperative Extension ServiceHolcomb, Carl L.Gill, C. Edward2019-09-202019-09-201968-06http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93879How to evaluate timber to get the proper priceA landowner with standing timber to sell needs to know its value. Offers to buy may be above or below the average current price in the locality. How is he to know what a fair price is for his timber? Logs of a particular size, quality and species usually command a uniform price at any one mill. However, when an operator buys a tract of timber marked or by the boundary, he must figure what products can be cut from the trees and how much it will cost him to get them to his mill ( or to move the mill to the timber he has bought) before knowing how much he can pay for stumpage.11 pagesapplication/pdfen-USVirginia Cooperative Extension materials are available for public use, re-print, or citation without further permission, provided the use includes credit to the author and to Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, and Virginia State University.Extension publicationtimber tradeprices