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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



TABLE 4. BASKETS, FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PACKAGES. 



BOXES AND CRATES 



Ten species of wood were used in the manufacture of packing 

 boxes, crating and cases in South Carolina. Sixty per cent of the 

 total amount used was made up of the three gums, red, black and 

 tupelo. Most of the material went into cases for packing 

 and other cotton goods produced at the textile factories. These 

 woods were formerly held in so low esteem in the State that 

 they were left standing in the forests when pines were cut. 

 Greater demand, and a better knowledge of the good properties 

 of these woods, have brought them into use. Tupelo leads the 

 two other gums in quantity, but the black and the red aggre- 

 gate more than a millon feet of box lumber. Sometimes a wood 

 employed as box ends, on which the printing or stenciling is to 

 appear, brings a higher price, because it must be of clear stock, 

 and of good color, in order to show the lettering. 



Loblolly pine is lowest in price, but all the woods are low. 

 Box lumber nearly always consists of the lower grades, but 

 some factories which produce nothing but ' in the \vh >le 



log run into this commodity. 



Baskets and boxes are tabulated as separate Industrie 

 State. In some other regions they are considered as one 

 industry. The two combined in South Carolina have an output 

 of a little less than 14,000,000 feet per year. Thi~ i- Breath- 

 exceeded in many States because of greater manufacture 

 more extensive fruit gn mn^. S< . : <>mii 



