WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 17 



CHESTNUT 



Chestnut occurs scattered throughout the Piedmont region of 

 South Carolina, but is used in only one kind of manufacture, that 

 of caskets and coffins. No home grown wood of this tree was 

 reported by any of the wood-using industries. It is a light- 

 weight wood, not very strong, and liable to check, but is very 

 durable and so make a suitable wood for fence posts, sills and 

 railroad ties. In some parts of the country it is used in cabinet 

 making. It is peculiarly suitable as core wood or backing for 

 veneer, because it holds glue remarkably well. A very usual 

 grade of chestnut is "sound wormy." Such wood has been per- 

 forated by small boring insects while the tree was living. The 

 holes each the size of a large pin, improve its glue-holding prop- 

 erties, because they afford a grip or anchorage for the glue. 

 Chestnut is one of the leading woods of the country for coffins 

 and caskets, on account of its relative durability and cost. 



WHITE PINE 



This tree has its extreme southeastern limit of range in the 

 highest points of the Alpine region of South Carolina, but it 

 grows here very sparingly and all the material of the species 

 used by manufacturers in the State was procured elsewhere. It 

 was reported in small amounts by five industries, the total being 

 a little over 150,000 board feet. It is one of the leading house 

 building materials of the country, but in South Carolina its place 

 is filled by the southern pines. The principal supply formerly 

 came from New England, later from New York and Pennsyl- 

 vania, and in recent years from Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne- 

 sota. The supply of white pine is failing rapidly; but certain 

 western woods, notably Idaho white pine, western yellow pine, 

 and California sugar pine, as well as species from the southwest, 

 are taking its place in many regions east of the Rocky Mountains. 

 The western pines have not yet appeared in South Carolina. 



BASSWOOD 



This wood was used in but two industries in South Carolina, 

 and only a small amount was reported as growing in the State. 

 It occurs very sparingly in the Alpine region, but manufacturers 

 find it more profitable to buy the material outside the State. It 

 is an excellent wood where whiteness, even grain, and ease of 

 working are essential requirements. There are three species of 



