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elm, beech, cork elm, red oak, cliestiiut burr oak, red 

 ash and yellow oak. These woods used in this indus- 

 try comprised 6,792,250 feet in 1910. The imported 

 woods amounted to 9,821,980 feet^, including such 

 exogenous types as red gum, cypress, short-leaf pine, 

 paper birch and pitch pine. Boxes and crates re- 

 quired 105,671,926 feet of home grown lum- 

 ber, including 27,000,000 feet of beech; hemlock, 

 26,000,000; sugar maple, 23,000,000; and basswood, 

 12,000,000. Handles took more than 37,000,000 

 feet of ^lichigan material, of which sugar maple was 

 by far the largest item, 23,000,000 feet; and the drift 

 of handle factories to the northern peninsula, where 

 maple is still an important element in the existing 

 stand of timber, illustrates the groat importance of 

 this wood in the handle industry. Sugar maple 

 leads among the Michigan woods used in the vehicle 

 industry, 6,839,500 feet; while the indispensable 

 hickory was imported to the extent of 6,084,400 feet, 

 and 381,700 feet of Michigan hickory was consumed. 

 The aggregate consumption of ]\Iichigan wood in 

 this industry is given as 15,784,600 feet, while just 

 about the same quantity was imported. Into tanks 

 and silos went 2,665,000 feet of tamarack, 850,000 

 of white pine, 100,000 of hemlock, 35,000 of sugar 

 maple, 25,000 of beech, all Michigan grown, an 

 aggregate of 3,675,000 feet, 17,021,000 being im- 

 ported. In 1910, then, Michigan factories con- 

 sumed 1,282,561,200 feet of lumber, while the State's 

 total cut is placed at 1,681,081,000 feet. There 

 were large importations as well as exportation «, as 



