Mount Gellivare, which is over eighteen hundred feet in height, is said to be almost wholly formed of an ore containing fully eighty per cent of the best quality of merchantable iron; so that a dearth of this mineral is certainly not imminent.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Within the boundaries defined by the four stakes of the limit Hollister owned there stood, according to the original cruising estimate, eight million feet of merchantable timber, half fir, half red cedar.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
In a week he was reasonably certain that the most liberal estimate left less than half the quantity of merchantable timber for which he had paid good money.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair