PART Il 
DISCUSSION OF SECONDARY WOODWORKING 
INDUSTRIES 
SuMMaARyY oF Kinps oF Woop UsEp 1n New York 
The following table (Table 1) shows the relative importance 
of the various species used for making wooden articles in New 
York. The total for all species amounts to 1,279,795,000 
feet annually, for which the manufacturers paid during 1919 
a total of $77,786,000, or an average of $60.78 per M. feet. 
The amount of raw material cut in New York was 189,109,000 
feet or approximately 15 per cent of all material used by local 
wood-using industries. Sixty-five species are listed. 
In compiling this report, owing to incompleteness of infor- 
mation furnished, it was considered impracticable to distin- 
guish between the various species of certain genera and the 
data for such were combined. 
Among the native woods white pine contributes the largest 
amount. Its total of over 329 million feet amounts to 25 per 
cent of the wood used and more than twice the amount con- 
tributed by spruce, the next largest quantity reported for any 
one species. Note that nearly 306 million feet of the supply 
was imported from other States. White pine is now and always 
has been the leading commercial species in New York. When 
the State occupied first place in the production of lumber, 
white pine stood foremost among American woods, growing in 
great abundance throughout New England, the Lake States, 
and along the Appalachian Mountains. The wood is lght, 
soft, easily worked, comparatively free from resin, and warps 
and shrinks but little in seasoning. It has all the essential 
qualities demanded by a large number of wood-using indus- 
tries, particularly those of sash, doors, blinds, general mill- 
work, pattern work, and general planing mill products. Its 
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