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FORESTRY INVESTIGATIONS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Forest industries and manufactures using irood. 



a Includes carriages and wagon-factory product, children's carriages and sleds, steam and street cars, coffins and burial caskets, chairs, 

 wheelbarrows, sewing-machine cases, artificial limbs, refrigerators, and shipbuilding. 



& Includes agricultural implements, billiard tables, railroad and street car repairs, furniture repairs, washing machines and wringers, 

 and organs and pianos. 



c Includes blacksmithing and wheelwrightiug, bridges, brooms and brushes, gunpowder, artists' materials, windmills, toys ;unl ^iiint'.s, 

 sporting goods, lead pencils, pipes, and pumps. 



The most valuable part of the forest growth, that which it took the longest time to grow, is, 

 of course, that which is cut into lumber. The lumber and sawmill business of the United States 

 has no equal in the world in extent or in efficiency. From being hardly develope'd fifty years ago 

 beyond local importance, this business, through the development of the means of transportation 

 as well as of the country to the west, has rapidly advanced to enormous proportions. 



The extent and distribution of the sawmill business through the States is, perhaps, best illus- 

 trated by the following statement of the number of the various classes of mills and their daily 

 capacity as computed from the Directory of the Northwestern Lumberman : 



\umlier of mills, loi/gini/ railroads, and daily capacity of mills. 

 [Computed from data published in Northwestern Lumberman, 1892.] 



<! Shingles may be averaged 5,000 to the 1,000 feet B. M. 



