We would only buy on Stumpage.
"The Hidden Places"
Bertrand W. Sinclair
Cardigan was a shrewd judge of Stumpage; with the calm certitude of a prophet he looked over township after township and cunningly checkerboarded it with his holdings.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne
For thirty years John Cardigan had played a waiting game with the owner of that timber, for the latter was as fully obsessed with the belief that he was going to sell it to John Cardigan at a dollar and a half per thousand feet Stumpage as Cardigan was certain he was going to buy it for a dollar a thousand-when he should be ready to do so and not one second sooner.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne