90 Discussion of Industries 
and match-box attachments are produced. New York, how- 
ever, uses many millions of feet of lumber in her own factories 
for the production of matches and vies with other States for 
first place in the industry. Square match splints are exported 
to England, France, Mexico, Venezuela, and other South 
American countries. The use of spruce in the industry is 
accounted for by the consumption of veneer in the manufacture 
of the match boxes. The average price of $52.32 per M. 
quoted in the table is very moderate, as it is known that white 
pine of high grade cost up to $200 per M. at the period of this 
report and shortly thereafter, while the other species, in the log, 
went as high as $80. The most remarkable aspect of the situa- 
tion in this industry is that New York State should be com- 
pelled to import all of the white pine and spruce used. Is it 
not an absurd situation, for a state which once stood foremost 
in production of these species ? 
TABLE 16 
MATCHES 
Quantity UsEeD 
ANNUALLY averaes Total cost Grown in |Grown out of 
Kinp or Woop aa ogo. eee: New York. | New York. 
Pp Rack factory (Feet b. m.) | (Feet b. m.) 
Feet b. m. | Per cent 
otal. cee ae 14,250,000 | 100.00 | $52 32 $745 , 500 300 , 000 13,950,000 
White pine......... 10 ,000 ,000 70.18 | $52 50 $525,000) --anceeeee 10,000,000 
Western white pine..| 2,000,000 14.03 52 50 1053000))|( 223 5ee eee 2,000 ,000 
DEUCES ec carpe cree 1,500,000 10.53 50 00 ToO,OOO) || sete cee 1,500,000 
Basswood.......... 750,000 5.26 54 00 40,500 300,000 450 ,000 
WooDENWARE AND NOVELTIES 
Probably. no industry in the whole report contains so many 
separate, distinct articles of commerce as are tabulated under 
the above heading of Woodenware and Novelties. The 
ordinary household articles known as “ woodenware” and the 
more ornamental article known as a “novelty” are not so. 
much confused in their makeup and uses as in their production. 
Establishments that make one are so frequently manufacturers 
