THE INDUSTRIES 



The commodities manufactured wholly or principally of wood 

 >uth Carolina have been separated into fourteen main 

 indus csides a group entitled "Miscellaneous." 



>ups use wry unequal quantities >f material. Tin 

 industry planing mill products uses nearly seven-eighths of 

 the total wood reported, and the first five industries use over 

 ninety-seven per cent. The groups are arranged according to 

 the quantities of wood listed in each, the largest coming first. 



PLANING MILL PRODUCTS 



The planing mills are nearly all operated in connection with 

 sawmills. Their products include flooring, ceiling, and siding. 

 The sawmills make rough lumber, which, when properly sea- 

 soned, is run through planers and then shipped to market as a 

 finished commodity. Stock sizes, kinds, and patterns are made 

 and no special machinery is needed. This method of doing the 

 planing in connection with the sawing is obviously the most 

 efficient one. The difference in charges for rough and for 

 planed lumber is ofter greater than the cost of planing. S 

 planing mills, however, operate independently from sawmills. 



irly all of the timber represented in this industry 

 the State. Usually a single mill converts the log into the finished 

 product, planed ready for use. But most of the other wood- 

 industries have as their raw material, not logs, but rough 

 or partly manufactured lumber. This is shipped to the factory 

 from a distance, frequently from another State. 



What is known as a "combination mill" is a rather imp 'riant 

 factor in this industry in South Carolina. These gin cotton 

 of the year until such work becomes slack, then they >aw logs 

 and make plain flooring, ceiling and siding. 



Of the woods in this industry, sugar maple brings tl;< 



, and tupelo the lowest. Tin- e price for all sj 



is $14.22 per thousand. This is comparatively low pro! 

 because most of the lumber is procured locally. It is not out of 

 proportion with the average price of lumber of like 

 other southern States. The average price in Virginia 

 in North Carolina $UM1. in Alabama $11.72, in .V 

 $11.69, and in Louisiana $11.39. 



