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abroad and in very small amounts for interior finish. The 
total expenditure of over $2,000,000 annually by the railroad 
companies for woods should attract the attention of our local 
lumbermen and bring about a greater consumption of home- 
grown mature timber especially along the railroads. The species 
in order of importance contributed by New York are white oak, 
birch, hard maple, and red oak; other species contributing but 
small quantities are yellow poplar, beech, chestnut, basswood, 
and hemlock. 
TABLE 9 
Car CONSTRUCTION 
Quantity UsEep 
emai? sia Total cost Grown in {Grown out of 
Kinp or Woop |————-——|ner 1,000| ‘£9: D- New York. | New York. 
e eat factory (Feet b. m.) | (Feet b. m.) 
Feet b. m. | Per cent 
“blog: aoe 34,476,000 | 100.00 | $59 32 | $2,045,035 1,335,000 33,141,000 
Southern yellow pine| 22,652,000 65.71 | 363) 86 |. $1,440,550 |. 0. 2-268 22,652,000 
Wihitecak...c5..... 6,564,000 19.03 52 86 346 , 983 380 ,000 6,184,000 
White pine......... 1,166,000 3.38 55 83 GBS O9Se | wind medtew ae 1,166,000 
Hard maple........ 545,000 1.58 30 41 16,573 270 ,000 275,000 
Yellow poplar....... 531,000 1.54 | 101 59 53,944 10,000 521,000 
Bia Nias ote Sait... 530 ,000 1.53 34 17 18,100 288 ,000 242,000 
PREGEORICS, Clo. dhaieiele so 500 , 000 1.46 40 00 20,000 250,000 250,000 
Bectiwewarhtatl. «250 470 ,000 1.36 30 08 14,138 50,600 420 ,000 
Chestnuts vert. ccice 452 ,000 i Aer 31 09 14,053 50,000 402 ,000 
Basswood.......:.. 352,000 1.03 30 75 10,824 25,000 327,000 
UENEI 850 Teo Pee 220 ,000 .64 59 38 T3064 hh sets eee 220 ,000 
SDRUCE. mee iaec Be er 213,000 .62 41 O01 85080 oon eee 213.000 
DG TISSHAD cgi 5. 128 ,000 37 32 00 4096.1. se3eeeeee 128 ,000 
Western white pine. . 50,000 15 | 1385, 00 GaCDOR | ere 50,000 
Mahogany.......... 28,000 .08 | 215 00 60201). ty. a.80tetone 28,000 
REG MING ay. veces es 25,000 .07 | 120 00 SOOO Nae terion 25,000 
itemlockie est... 5% 25,000 O07 34 00 850 12,000 13,000 
KE DTESS ae che ss. o.5-6's 25,000 07 90 00 220) 3|\ eos deere 25,000 
The total quantity of lumber reported by the car trade is 
but one-half the amount in 1912. This decrease is due to a 
smaller number of establishments in the State, to the excessive 
cost of labor and materials, and to the displacement of wood by 
metal. It is a fact that steel has forged ahead tremendously as 
a car-building material within the past ten years. “ The Rail- 
road Tie Producer” for March, 1920, quotes an authority as 
saying that, because of a lack of 500,000 freight cars, it will 
take the car manufacturing plants at full time three years to 
