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of substitutes appeared, such as cartons, most of them made of wood 

 refuse or by-products. Although adopted for a large percentage of the 

 Hghter forms of merchandise, damage of goods in transit when shipped 

 in such containers caused the shipper to adhere to wood for so many 

 Hnes and in such a large proportion of freight shipments that wood for 

 packing boxes was largely retained, and the quantity consumed in this 

 industry alone, in Illinois in 1909 required 21.05 per cent of the entire 

 consumption of lumber in manufacturing, or about 375,000.000 board 

 feet, and this proportion probably holds today. In this form, cheap 

 supplies of wood can render an invaluable service to nearly every fonn 

 of manufactured products, including many which do not use wood as 

 raw materials. 



Group A. — Industries Depe^vdent entirely upon Wood* 



Persons 

 employed 



Capital 

 invested 



Cost of 

 principal 

 materials 



Value of 

 products 



Value 

 added by 

 manufac- 

 ture 



Wooden packing- 

 boxes 



Lumber and plan 

 ing-mill prod- 

 ucts 



Wood furniture . 



Wood pulp and 

 paper 



Cooperage 



Wood preserva- 

 tion 



Charcoal 



4,920 



6,320 

 15,160 



2,002 

 1,601 



564 

 27 



30.594 



$9,002,089 



24,059,331 

 35,330,352 



13,928,741 

 4,849,702 



2,252.853 

 37,676 



$89,460,744 



$10,297,194 



20,393,106 

 22,164,038 



8.162.201 

 7,623,833 



1,618,683 

 17,113 



$18,856,685 



34.588.576 

 49,686,849 



14,356,529 



11,576,824 



1 



3,142,545; 



40.565 



$8,491,880 



13.909.099 

 26.979.464 



5,144.07b 

 3,903,720 



1.417.240 

 23.250 



$70,276,168 I $132,248,573 $59,868,729 



All industries in this group are obviously dependent on wood as a 

 raw material and would be discontinued with its disappearance. To- 

 gether these industries constitute 3.18 per cent of the total of Illinois 

 manufacturing enterprises. 



GROUP B. INDUSTRIES WHICH MAKE EXTENSIVE USE OF WOOD 



In this second group are found those industries which are greatly 

 benefited by access to abundant and cheap supplies of wood, especially 

 of hardwoods. Their products will show a decided increase in cost with 

 the lessening of this supply or the necessity for using substitutes, and in 



•From "Manuf.-ictures", 1919. 111.. Fourteenth Census of the IT. S. Dept. of Com- 

 merce, Bureau of the Census, Washington. D. C. 



