30 



WOOD-USING AROLINA. 



cent of the material was grown in South Carolina. The hi 

 priced wood was birch and was procured in Pennsylvania. 

 Longleaf pine cost less than shortleaf because the material 

 procured in large amounts and in dimension sizes, while the 

 shortleaf was good grade material, sawed into small lumber. 



The average price of car stock in this State is $1, thou- 



sand and the amount used annually is under one and three- 

 fourths million feet. In contrast, the State of Illinois may be 

 cited. This is the largest car-manufacturing State of the Union. 

 and the price for car material at the factory is $30.44, almost 

 as high as in South Carolina. Conditions are not exactly 

 comparable, however, because Illinois builds more passenger 

 cars and uses a proportionately larger quantity of expe; 

 cabinet woods. 



TABLE 8. CAR CONSTRUCTION. . 



FURNITURE 



The furniture manufacturing business in the St.- nail, 



and most of the best furniture used in South Carolina is made 

 elsewhere. Table 9 embodies statistics of the industry in the 

 State. Church and office furniture are not included in the table. 

 The most remarkable thing shown is the cheapness <>f the lumber 

 manufactured into finished commodities. In some instant <-. it is 

 below the average mill value for the whole country. Tl 

 true of yellow poplar, oak and ash. The average factory cost 

 of furniture lumber in Yr per thousand fr< 



North Carolina $18.23, and in Tennessee $?'>. :n. 'I' IK- average in 

 South Carolina is $13.46. Virginia makes twelve times as much 



