WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 15 



WOODS GROWN OUTSIDE OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



Table 2 treats of the raw material grown in North Carolina, while 

 Table 3 deals with the lumber grown outside of the State. This table 

 gives the quantity of wood used in manufacture, the average cost, deliv- 

 ered at the factory, and the percentage of the different species shipped 

 into the State, grown in the several States mentioned. 



The woods brought from outside of the State in 1909 for the wood- 

 using industries aggregated 26,000,000 feet. It is of interest to note 

 that 93 per cent of this quantity is grown in States contiguous to North 

 Carolina. Tennessee ranks first, furnishing 51 per cent ; South Carolina, 

 Virginia, and Kentucky follow in the order named, supplying 20, 16, 

 and 6 per cent, respectively. The imported woods amount to little over 

 one-quarter of one per cent of the total. The average price paid for all 

 home-grown material, as shown in Table 2, was $14.13. Table 3, which 

 follows, gives the average cost at the factory of the woods brought from 

 a distance at $26.29, making a difference of $12.16 per M feet in the 

 cost of the woods grown in and out of the State. 



A greater quantity of yellow poplar is shipped into North Carolina 

 than any other wood used by the manufacturers. The 8,068,000 feet 

 grown in other States, as shown in the table, is 23 per cent of the total 

 quantity of poplar used. North Carolina pine, following next in the 

 quantity of wood grown outside of the State, is 6,625,000 feet. Two- 

 thirds of this amount is brought from South Carolina, while the re- 

 mainder is grown in Virginia and Georgia. Sixty-nine per cent of the 

 black walnut used is shipped into the State, and 43 per cent of the 

 hickory. No other wood comes up to these in the relative quantity 

 shipped in. Tennessee and Kentucky furnished most of the hickory. 



