stumpage

He had beaten them with his dam and boom company; he had beaten them in certain stumpage operations.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
The cost of logging under the methods of marking adopted is compensated fully in the stumpage appraisal.
Our National Forests|Richard H. Douai Boerker
He kept sighing and wrinkling his brows, as though in deep rumination on a matter far removed from the stumpage question.
The Skipper and the Skipped|Holman Day
It is therefore true that stumpage prices have risen greatly, although conditions new to the American lumbermen are imposed.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6|Various

Between the one dollar you pay for stumpage and the twenty dollars you get for lumber lies all these things.
The Rules of the Game|Stewart Edward White

British Dictionary definitions for stumpage

stumpage

/ (ˈstʌmpɪdʒ) /

noun

US and Canadian standing timber or its value

US and Canadian the right to fell timber on another person's land

Canadian a tax or royalty payable on each tree felled, esp on crown land

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