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stumpage local U.S.|ˈstʌmpɪdʒ|
[f. stump n.1 + -age.]
1. The price paid for standing timber; also, a tax charged in some States for the privilege of cutting timber on State lands.
1835Knickerbocker V. 423 Such rough words as tariff jobbing, cuts, stumpage. 1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. 341 Stumpage, the sum paid to owners of land for the privilege of cutting the timber growing thereon. State of Maine. 1860Harper's Mag. XX. 440 The timber tract is..purchased or a rate of stumpage agreed upon which is generally from $2.50 to $3.00 per thousand for all timber cut. 1891E. Roper By Track & Trail xxvii. 407 The settlers..have to pay to the Government one cent ‘stumpage’ for every tree cut down. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xxv, We must have that pine, even though we pay stumpage on it. Now what would you consider a fair price for it?
2. Standing timber considered with reference to its quantity or marketable value.
1854Seba Smith Way down East 39 To sell stumpage to the loggers for the ensuing winter. 1857Thoreau Maine Woods (1894) 164 He it is who..has not bought the stumpage of the township on which it stands. 1894Q. Rev. July 185 We assume a pine stumpage of 5000 feet to the acre. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xiv, You owned five million feet of timber, which at the price of stumpage (standing trees) was worth ten thousand dollars. |