WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OK SOUTH CAROLINA. 



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Carolina's most valuable crops do not go to market in crates or 

 baskets cotton and rice, for example. The extent of the box busi- 

 ness is not, therefore, always a reliable basis on which to judge 

 of what a region is sending to market. 



TABLE 5. BOXES AND CRATES, PACKING. 



SHUTTLES, SPOOLS AND BOBBINS 



The manufacture of cotton goods has in late years developed 

 with great rapidity in South Carolina and it is to be expected 

 that the manufacture of shuttles, spools, and bobbins should, 

 therefore, be of considerable importance. However, the number 

 of establishments engaged in their manufacture is not great, 

 though in quantity of dogwood and persimmon used for shuttles, 

 South Carolina leads all other States. Dogwood and persimmon 

 are the leading species for this commodity in the United States, on 

 account of their hardness, excellent wearing qualities, and free- 

 dom from warping when seasoned. Most of the material from 

 these woods presented in Table 6 consisted of logs or bolts made 

 into shuttle blocks, the form in which shuttle makers purchase their 

 raw material ; and in converting the bolts into blocks, 75 per cent, it 

 is stated, is waste. Though nearly two-thirds of the block material 

 was shipped in from other States, the price per thousand feet is 

 comparatively low. Red and black gum is used in the manufacture 

 of bobbins and of spools of large size. 



The shuttle has an interesting history. It has come down from 

 the old hand-loom shuttle which was thrown by one hand and 



