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FOREST COMMISSIONKr's RKPORT. 



Sosli^ Doors, Blinds and General Milkvork. 



Manufacturers of sasli, doors, and blinds demand material 

 that is of extremely good quality, and years ago in the northern 

 States, the best of white pine was considered none too good. 

 To-day the manufacturers of sash and doors use all the white 

 pine they can possibly get, but it has been necessary to find 

 substitutes for the white pine of the northeastern and Lake 

 States. This demand has been partly met by Arkansas short- 

 leaf, and to a greater extent, by western white pine from Idaho, 

 California sugar pine, and sapwood of western yellow pine. 

 This industry is one that makes use of both rather cheap and 

 very expensive woods. Formerly, doors, and columns were 

 made of solid pieces of wood, but today such work is largely 

 of built-up construction. The invisible parts are of one wood 

 and the visible parts of another. White pine serves well for 

 the core or backing in such work because it holds its shape, 

 does not warp or twist much, and holds glue. Chestnut is also 

 a good core wood, and so also are the western pines. The visi- 

 ble parts of built-up doors, columns, etc., are usually high-grade 

 woods, except when cheap stock is being turned out. Upon a 

 core of pine or chestnut, there are glued such woods as cherry, 

 mahogany, quartered oak. and red gum. It is rather noticeable 

 that Pacific Coast woods are being used largely in this business. 

 Douglas fir is much employed for porch columns, and -is also 

 used in doors, frames, and sash. Western red cedar has come 

 into use for window frames, especially the sill, and it is selected 

 for this purpose because of its ability to resist decay. 



TABLE 30. 



Kinds of Wood. 



Quantity Used 

 Annually. 



Feet, 

 B. M. 



Aver- 

 age 

 cost 

 per 

 Per 1000 

 cent. 1 ft. 



Total cost 

 f. 0. b. factory. 



Grown in 



Maine. 

 Feet, B. M. 



Grown out 

 of Maine. 

 Feet, B. M. 



Sugar maple 4 



Paper birch .3 



Yellow birch 1 



Basswood 



Beech 



Aspen (popple) 



Red oak 



White elm 



Totals 10 



738,500 



740.000 



140 000 



785.700 



320 000 



5.000 



3.000 



2.000 



44 14.«17 .38 

 34 S4 1() 13 



10 62 



7.32 



2 98 



.05 



03 



02 



15 88 

 18 62 

 15 58 

 13 00 

 8 00 

 8 00 



$82,341 00 



tiO.340 00 



18.105 00 



14.627 00 



4 .985 00 



65 00 



24 00 



16 00 



,738 ,500 



,740,000 



.140,000 



785,700 



320,000 



5.000 



3.000 



2.000 



734.200 100 00 $16 86 $180 503 00 10,734,200 



