WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



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so have quite different values there. Raw material may arrive 

 at the handle factory, for instance, still in the rough log; in 

 another case it may go to the carriage factory and arrive in the 

 form of split and partly manufactured spokes. In each case the 

 factory would list the material as it was received the log worth 

 probably $15 a thous'and, the club spokes valued at three or four 

 times that amount ; yet both are raw material and might be the 

 same kind and grade of wood. The handle factory in this case, 

 must put much work on the log before it is converted into fin- 

 ished products; but the spokes, already partly manufactured 

 when they arrive, are quickly and cheaply finished. 



A list of prices, representing the cost of wood laid down at the 

 factories of various industries, conveys comparatively little mean- 

 ing unless the information is accompanied by other facts showing 

 the factors which go to make up the cost. 



TABLE 17. SUMMARY BY INDUSTRIES OF WOOD USED IN SO. CAROLINA. 



COST OF WOODS BY INDUSTRIES. 



Table 18 shows the costs of the woods used in the different 

 industries. Quantity is not taken into consideration. Scarcely 

 any two industries pay the same prices for a particular wood. 

 Ten industries buy yellow poplar, all at different average cost; 



