118 Discussion of Industries 
Any one firm, no matter how large, is scarcely justified in 
obtaining the raw material in large quantities, and almost all 
of the stock is purchased from wholesale dealers in the larger 
centers, who have to select good, clear stock and charge some- 
what extra for the culling process necessary to oblige plumbing 
establishments. 
Pumps anp Pipine 
The manufacturers of pumps in the State consumed 4,833,- 
000 feet of lumber and expended $226,000 for their wood, an 
average price of $46.84 per thousand. The comparatively 
low average price is due to the use of much stock in the 
rougher platforms and coverings where ordinary grades of 
lumber will suffice. All of the wood used in this industry can- 
not be accounted for in a wood-using study. ‘T'o begin with, 
metal substitutes of all parts of pumps, including piping, rods - 
and handles, has become so general that the proportion of 
wood to the total raw material consumed by the industry is 
relatively unimportant. Many large pump manufacturers are 
not even listed as wood-using establishments and their utiliza- 
tion of wood is necessarily lost sight of in this study. Again, 
some pump-handle stock is doubtless accounted for in the 
returns from handle factories and cannot be identified as 
pump handles. The amount of wood reported is about 50 per 
cent less than was used in 1912. 
TABLE 29 
PUMPS AND PIPING 
Quantity UsEep 
ANNUALLY pwetaee Total cost Grown in |Grown out of 
er 1.000 f. 0. b. New York. | New York. 
Pp factory (Feet b. m.) | (Feet b. m.) 
Kind or Woop 
Feet b. m. | Percent 
otal? «2b: ehew,- 4,833,000 | 100.00 | $46 84 $226 , 388 866 ,000 3,967,000 
White pine......... 4,530,000 93.73 47 57 $215,492 713,000 3,817,000 
Hard maple........ 301,000 6.23 36 00 10, 836 151,000 150,000 
INS bE gnou tod 1,000 .02 30 00 30 1,000 || jecceee emer: 
Wihttevoak:-schnjriu.- 1,000 -02 30 00 30 1,000") 2c sae 
