Discussion of Industries 
TABLE 42 
SPORTING AND ATHLETIO GOODS 
Quantity *Usrp 
ANNUALLY nvernee Total cost Grownin |Grown out of 
Krnp or Woop per 1,000 1S 18% New York. | New York. | 
aap factory (Feet b. m.) | (Feet b. m.) , 
Feet b. m. | Percent 
MRotale seen cokes 429,000 | 100.00 | $74 62 $32,010 212,000 217,000 
Hard maple........ 304,000 70.86 | $66 43 $20,195 166 ,000 138,000 
IBinch Acer: Sartre 30,000 6.99 30 00 900 15,000 15,000 
Yellow poplar....... 30, 000 6.99 | 150 00 AS SOON 2 eee 30,000 
clits Srbe 5 be ornate 25,000 5.82 60 00 1,500 25,0005) =33 eee 
Black walnut....... 10 ,000 2.34 90 00 900: i) Bo See 10,000 
Mahogany......... 10 ,000 2.34 | 100 00 L000) tees See 10,000 
@hestnutta-cer ee 6,000 1.39 90 00 540 2,000 4,000 
White oak. ...-:..:. 5,000 f. U7 12175 00 STOCHE. . Sess 5,000 
ine kory aes, tees oe 5,000 1.17 | 160 00 SOO! tee eee 5,000 
Sprucete.. 4... iaue ke 4,000 .93 | 200 00 800 45000 yatta ee 
DowrELs AND SKEWERS 
Dowels are small wooden pins or rods, usually circular in 
eross section, used to connect pieces of wood by being sunk in 
the edges of each to keep them permanently in their proper 
relative position. They are made of many diameters and vart- 
ous lengths and generally used by chair and furniture makers 
and door and sash manufacturers. The major portion of this 
product goes into the manufacture of chairs, but the tops of 
tables and counters and parts of doors are joined edge to edge 
by the employment of these dowels or pegs. This method of 
joining parts is older than the use of iron and copper. The 
art of manufacturing wooden pins was highly developed many 
centuries ago. A striking modern instance of the use of dowels 
is seen in the great Tabernacle of the Latter Day Saints at 
Salt Lake City, Utah, which structure, including the very 
extensive arched roof, is stated by the Mormons to have been 
built, after the plan of Solomon’s Temple, without the use of 
metal fasteners. The product today is no more finished than 
in ancient times, but the introduction of modern machinery has 
made it possible for one unskilled man in charge of a machine 
to produce more pins than a large force of skilled workmen who 
cut them by hand. Dowels are made in long rods and then 
re-cut to suit the exact use to which they are to be put. Some 
