WOOD-USING INDISTRIKS Ol- MAIXI".. 



121 



IVUISTRIES. 



Avfrage 



number of 



wage earners. 



Value 



of 



products. 



Paper and wood pulp 



Lumber and timber products 



Shipbuilding, including boat building 



•Cars and general shop construction and repairs by! 

 steam railroad companies 



Wood, turned and carved 



■Carriages and wagons and materials 



Cooperage and wooden goods not elsewhere specified 



Furniture and refrigerators 



Agricultural implements 



Total 



All manufacturing industries 



8.647 



15 ,086 



1 ,7.55 



1 ,200 



1,287 



472 



349 1 



I 



215' 



121; 



$33 ,950 ,000 



26,125.000 



3 .062 ,000 



2 .048 ,000 

 1 ,870 ,000 

 966 .000 

 S42 ,000 

 368.000 

 226.000 



29.132 



$69 ,457 ,000 



79 .9551 



$176,029,000 



Other large industries, sucli as those connected with the 

 manufacture of textiles, canned goods, and boots and shoes, 

 depend upon wood in man\ ways. They require it in the form 

 of boxes or barrels in order to ship their product safely and 

 <:heaply. and wooden articles are almost inseparably connected 

 with the manufacture of every imaginable product. For in- 

 stance, the wooden shuttle is an essential feature of the loom, 

 the maple last is invaluable to the shoe industry, and similarly 

 the list might be extended indefinitely. 



The industries which utilize cheap water power are depend- 

 ent upon the forests in so far as the flow of streams is regulat- 

 ■ed by the forest cover upon their water sheds. 



It is important that the people of Maine should fully realize 

 the relation between the forests and the industries in order that 

 intelligent action may be taken to best employ and perpetuate 

 valuable forest resources. It is believed that this report will 

 assist in reaching correct conclusions in these matters, because 

 it points out the relative importance of each kind of wood to 

 each industry and traces the present channels of supply. 



Reports published annually by the Bureau of the Census* 

 show the amount and kind of wood cut by the sawmills or con- 

 sumed in the manufacture of cooperage stock, paper pulp, cross 

 ties, poles, veneer, wood distillation, and excelsior. Accord- 



♦Forest Products of the United States. 



