WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



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boats and launches and into ship furniture. The southern yellow 

 pines were used for planking, keels, and for almost all other 

 parts of small boats and ships. 



The southern white cedar was all used in the manufacture of 

 small boats and the white pine for ship furniture. All the spruce 

 was employed for dry dock staging, the black gum for launching 

 rams, white ash for benches and ship tables, and the lignum 

 vitae for sheaves and bearings in ship and boat tackle. Lignum 

 vitae leads in price paid per thousand and all of this wood 

 reported in the State was consumed in this industry. Shortleaf 

 pine was lowest in price. Fifty-five per cent, of all the material 

 shown in Table 11 was grown in the State. Live oak, which 

 here is listed as white oak when used at all, was formerly one of 

 the most important ship timbers in America or in the world, and 

 South Carolina furnished some of the best of it. That time was 

 before iron ships were built, when the enormous crooks formed 

 by the junction of root or limb with the trunk, were hewed into 

 form for ship knees. The largest war vessels and merchant- 

 men used them because nothing superior could be had. That 

 use is now nearly unknown, and the boat builders in the State 

 do not even list live oak by name. 



TABLE 11. SHIP AND BOAT BUILDING. 



HANDLES 



Table 12 represents the timber used for pick, axe, mattock, 

 shovel, hatchet, broom, and other tool handles. It probably does 

 not show all the material that went into these commodities, 





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