Jnniiiiry 10, inin 



X 



Indiana s Wood-Using Industries 



C'ondnvrd frvm iaauc of iJcvcmber Uo 



Sewing Maciiine.s 



The jearlf demand of wood in Uio United Stntcii for rannufacturinf; 

 Mwini; machines ainounU to S9,04C,S27 foct, and more tlinn Imlf of 

 it is crc<litcd to Indiana. 



Indiana monufncturors use 31,110,S"7 feet of wood annually for 

 the manufacture of sewing machines, and Illinois uses 20,800,000 feet. 



The top or table of a sewing mncliine is carefully made to guard 

 against warping and checking. So far as the appearance of the fln- 

 islio.l article is concerned it might t>c taken for a single piece of 

 wood; but it is built up of sheets of veneer to give the required 

 thickness. The grains of the sheets cross one another at right angles, 

 thus counteracting tendencies to warp. The concealed sheets arc of 

 good core wood, such as yellow poplar, basswood, or cottonwood, and 

 the outer sheets receive the finish. 



Oak is the leading wood employed in tlie manufacture of sowing 

 m.ichines in Indiana. The oak sewing machine has long been popular, 

 and there is no indication that its popularity is waning. Black walnut 

 is popular also. Walnut is most frequently seen in the cabinet sew- 

 ing machine. The following woods arc employed as cabinet material 

 rather than for the top or table: Birch, pine, sugar maple, cotton 

 gum, basswood and cottonwood. Mahogany is always placed where 

 it is visible, therefore, it is a table wood as well as for the outer parts 

 of cabinets. Less than 15 per cent of the demand for sewing machine 

 woods is met by forests in the State. The finished machine is seldom 

 turned out of the factory that makes the wooden parts. The com- 

 pleted machine is assembled in another factory, perhaps hundreds of 

 miles from the place where the woodwork is done. Mahogany is the 

 most expensive wood reported by this industry in the State, and black 

 walnut is second, white oak third. 



The manufacturers of sewing machines in Indiana arc: Edinburg 

 Cabinet Company, Edinburg; Indiana Manufacturing Company, Peru; 

 Singer Manufacturing Company, South Bend, Ind. 



TABLE 41— SEWING MACHINES 



Total 31.110.527 100.00 $49.36 $l,B3.''j,612 4.303,065 26,807,462 



Refrigerators and Kitchen Cabinets 

 The articles included in this industry might be called kitchen fur- 

 niture, since it includes refrigerators, kitchen cabinets and cupboards, 

 and kitchen tables. These dififer from ordinary furniture in the uses 

 to which they are put and in the different class of woods demanded. 

 The importance of considering the industry separately is shown by 

 the fact that the annual demand for wood in the United States for the 

 manufacture of refrigerators and kitchen cabinets totals 137,616,266 

 feet 



The refrigerator maker is somewhat choice in his selection of 

 material for certain purposes. The interior, if wood, should consist of 

 only those kinds which possess no disagreeable odor or taste. Other- 

 wise they may contaminate such foods as readily absorb impurities. 

 Besides that, the wood should be white for appearance's sake. Bass- 

 wood, cottonwood, spruce, elm, and ash are satisfactory. Where fre- 

 quent scrubbings are desirable for sanitary reasons, no wood is 

 superior to white elm. It washes white and clean. Ash is little 

 inferior to elm in that respect, and maple is quite satisfactory. 



Refrigerators and kitchen cabinets consist of two distinct parts, 

 and two classes of wood are wanted. The outer part is finished for 

 display, except in the most ordinary kinds, and woods attractive 



—16— 



Ijecauite of flgiiro or color nro donircd. Oak, red gum, yellow pine, 

 ash and birch fill that place. If veneered pani-ln ancl tops arc uoed, 

 the core stock is chestnut, white pine or yellow pnphir. The lining, 

 sbclvtHt, drawers, and coinparUiients arc of rod gum, bnKSwood, cotton- 

 wood, yellow poplar, spruce, beech, ash, maple, cypresa, sycamore and 

 birch. 



TABLE 42— KEFRIGERATORS AND KITCHEN CABINETS 



Quantity used an 



Kind of wood 



Whlii; oak 



Iteil oak 



Itnl ffum 



ll.infiwood 



Cottonwood 



I.onieloaf pine . . . 

 Yclluw poplar... 



.^pruco 



Itccch 



White elm 



White pine 



Hinck tirth 



Sugar maple 



CypTfBH 



Hfmlork 



Svcamore 



rhmtnut 



Birch 



White a»h 



Silver maple 



Slippery elm 



Shortleaf pine. . . 



Feel b. m. 



6.721,786 



6.324,870 



4.2UW,oon 



3.S85.000 



2.930.000 



1,221.339 



1,027,642 



037.998 



450,000 



430,400 



402,700 



820,0OU 



270.033 



224.000 



142.772 



140,000 



101,740 



01,600 



81.700 



42,000 



22,500 



10,000 



Dually 



Per 



cent. 



20.74 



ill 311 



15.50 



12.27 



10.62 



4.43 



S.7S 



3.4M 



1.63 



1.68 



1.46 



1.16 



.08 



.81 



.52 



.61 



.37 



.33 



.80 



.16 



.08 



.04 



Avprace 

 cnpi Total coal 



per 



l.ono fL 



«3S.e7 



80.73 



22 «IU 

 ■M 27 

 30 84 



23 42 

 28.62 

 84 07 

 21.78 



. 24.01 

 10.12 

 20.88 

 23.60 

 21.00 

 18.60 

 18.21 

 17.82 

 80.61 

 29.34 

 27.14 

 2". 00 

 18.00 



f. o. b. 



factory 



t 204.072 



163.014 



04.057 



88.037 



0ll.;ill5 



2h.llilH 



20.4115 



82.520 



9.800 



10.870 



6.401 



9.. '.Ill I 



6.;H5 



4.725 



2.068 



2.550 



1,813 



2,801 



2,397 



1.140 



450 



180 



Grown In Grown out 

 Indiana of Indiana 



Feet h m. 

 J.OtU.Ohll 

 l.OBI.hT" 



5.IMHI 



46<l.<Hi(l 

 50.(l<N) 



261.000 



225.000 

 412.000 



270.000 

 168.000 



140.000 



Feet b. m. 

 4.7l6.80t«« 

 4.173.(100 

 4.2114. UOO 



2.w;r. ■'"" 



2.8K.1. 



l..'::i.:i:iii 

 770.542 

 037. 008 

 225.IHH' 

 24. 4 "(1 

 4il-.'.T"0 

 5*1, lino 

 112.l>.'i:i 

 224.01KI 

 142.772 



42.000 



22.riOO 



1111,74" 



01..' 



81. Toll 



10.000 



Total 



27,582,880 100.00 $28.80 $ 704.208 4.092.360 23.490.624 



MANtTAcrnaEBs of nErnicEnATORR and kitchew cabinets 



Fclkcr Cabinet Co., 



Wasmuthndlncott Co., Andrews 

 Roach-Brown .Mfg. Co., Cumberland 

 Wickers licfrlcerntor fo., Elkhnrt 

 G. I. Sellers & Sons Co., Klwnod 

 Globe-Bossce-World Furniture Co., 



Evnnsvllle 

 Indiana Furniture Co., Evansvllle 

 Klamer & Goebel, KvnnsvlIIe 

 Paul MfR. Co., Fort Wnvne 

 McDouBnll Co., Frnnkfort 

 .Tohn Thomas. Galveston 

 1 X L Furniture Co., Goshen 

 Greencnstlc Cabinet Co., Grccncas- 



tie 

 HtiBhc.v Mfg. Co., Indianapolis 

 Jeffersonvllie Mtg. Co., JclTerson- 



Lcba- 



Geo. F. 

 lion 



Banta & Bender Co.. LIgonler 



Sturkln-Nelson Cabinet Co., Logans- 

 port 



Dearborn Desk Mfg. Co.. Marlon 



MoTlure Mfg. Co., Marlon 



Durham Mfg. Co., Muncle 



Hoosler Mfg. Co.. Newcastle 



C. II. Browncll, Peru 



Indiana Mfg. Co.. Peru 



Samoel Stick, nidgevllle 



C. F. Scbmoe Furniture Co.. Shclbj- 

 vllle 



Spiegel Cabinet Co., Shelbyvllle 



.John Koontz Sons, fnlon City 



Vlncennes Furniture Mfg. Co., Vln- 

 cenncs 



Cnrdlnnl Cabinet Co.. Wabash 



Acme Cabinet Co., Wilkinson 



Mtg. Co. 

 Tllle 



McCrav Refrigerator Co., Kcndall- 

 vllle 



CnmpbcII-Smlth-RItchle Co., Leba- 

 non 



Tanks and Silos 



Statistics are not compiled in a way to separate silos from tanks 

 and vats of other kinds. The silo is a storage place for green feed 

 for farm stock, and is an invention of recent years, but vats and tanks 

 for liquids and semi-liquids are older. The silo is becoming the most 

 important of the group. It is a highly profitable adjunct of a farm 

 and utilizes crops which formerly were largely wasted. Some planing 

 mills and woodworking facories specialize on silo stock. Such material 

 is shown in statistics of manufacture; but many silos are built by 

 carpenters who cut and fit the lumber on the ground where the silo 

 is set up, and these are not included when statistics are compiled 

 because reports are secured from manufacturing plants only. It is 

 impossible to say how many are built in that way in Indiana. 



For tanks and silos, reports show a total annual use of 225,617,686 

 feet of wood in the United States. The briefness of the list of woods 

 going to this industry is due to the necessity of excluding such as 

 decay quickly. Conditions are conducive to decay. From the numerous 

 kinds of woods available in Indiana, the builders of silos and tanks 

 use only five. These are, as shown in Table 43, longleaf pine, Douglas 

 fir, cypress, white pine, and Norway pine. Not one foot of hardwood 

 is reported, and not one foot of native Indiana wood. The sharpest 

 rivalry is between longleaf pine and Douglas fir. The two contribute 

 ninety-seven per cent of all the lumber reported for tanks and silos in 

 the state. The pine leads in quantity, but the fir, because of its 

 higher price, leads in total amount paid. Cypress is third in quantity, 

 and highest in price. Its durability long ago made it popular for 

 tanks, particularly in the South where dampness and warmth increase 

 the activity of decay. White and Norway pine are not employed in 

 large quantities by this industry in Indiana. 



