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inies, and the damage done to the young pines by hogs, cat- 

 tle, fires, etc. 



WOOD-WORKIXG ESTABLISHMENTS. 



A few facts, taken largely from the "Hand-Book" of 

 North Carolina,* concerning wood-working establishments 

 should be stated in this connection. Although little of 

 the lumber sawn in North Carolina, other than for build- 

 ings, is worked up in the State, yet the number of wood- 

 working factories is constantly on the increase. The most 

 numerous concerns are manufactories of carriages and 

 buggies. "Of these xVlamance county has two, Alexander 

 two, x\she one, Beaufort one, Bertie three, Caldwell one, 

 Chatham one, Cleveland one, Cumberland tw^o, Davidson 

 two, Durham one, Forsyth six, Gates two, Guilford two, 

 Haywood one, Halifax one, Hertford three, Lenoir two, 

 Lincoln two, Moore two, Pasquotank one, Randolph two, 

 Sampson two, \^ance one, Wake one, Warren three, Wash- 

 ington three, Wilkes two, Wilson one, Yadkin four — in 

 all fifty-eight, established in thirty out of the ninety-six 

 counties of the State, and representing every section in it. 

 Among them there is wide range of excellence, defined 

 and governed largely by experience and time. Man}' of 

 them are new, the product of the new industrial revolu- 

 tion. A few are old and are meritorious, not only for the 

 character of the work done by them, but because of the 

 courage and foresight which gave them existence far in 

 advance of similar enterprises in the State. 



"Not less important, and of much wider application, is 

 the manufacture of wagons, carts, etc., conducted by thirty- 

 two different establishments in almost the same number 

 of counties, as follows: Alamance has one, Alexander two, 

 Anson three, Cabarrus one, Caldwell one, Catawba one, 



^Hand-Book of North Carolina — Raleigh, 1893, pp. 273-275. 



