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most important place as material for outer boxes. These 

 articles are included in the industry, and nearly as much material 

 is required for their construction as for caskets. 



Though the industry includes caskets and coffins, the coffin 

 is almost out of use in the form in which it once was common, 

 and its place has been taken by the casket. The cheap article is 

 sometimes called a coffin, though it may not have the well known 

 "coffin shape." All of the shortleaf pine shown in the table was 

 manufactured into coffins for paupers. It was the cheapest wood 

 on the list. Oak was the highest, but the quantity was very 

 small. An equal amount of white pine was used. 



Long-continued custom is responsible for the large demand 

 for chestnut for coffins, since other woods will do quite as well. 



TABLE 7. CASKETS AND COFFINS. 



CAR CONSTRUCTION 



Seven woods were used in South Carolina for the manufacture 

 of street cars, railway passenger and freight cars. Longleaf pine 

 headed the list in amount, and was placed as car sills, frames', 

 floors, and the heavier timber parts of both railway and street 

 caps. The shortleaf furnished siding, ceiling, and decking of 

 freight cars. The white oak was quartered and converted both 

 into finish and into the exposed parts of street and railway pas- 

 senger cars; red oak was employed in the same way, some of it 

 also going into freight cars. Ash and yellow poplar were finish 

 woods and were used mostly in street car vestibules and for 

 sides, finish and panel work in railway passenger cars. The 

 birch was all made into finish for passenger cars. Over 99 per 



