20 WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



CONSUMPTION BY INDUSTRIES AND REGIONS. 



Table 2 presented statistics showing the quantity of raw material 

 grown in the State and used in the Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Moun- 

 tain regions of North Carolina. Table 5, which follows, has been com- 

 piled to show by industries the total consumption of wood for manufac- 

 ture in the three regions. The average price paid per M feet, and the 

 percentage of the total quantity of wood used by the various industries 

 in each one of the regions, are also shown. For illustration, the box- 

 makers in North Carolina used 68,063,000 feet of lumber, and 61.5 per 

 cent of it was manufactured in the Coastal Plain, 38.5 per cent in the 

 Piedmont region, and none in the Mountain districts. In figures it 

 stands 41,903,000 feet for the Coastal region and 26,160,000 for the 

 Piedmont. Again, in the sash and door industry the Piedmont region 

 consumes 73.5 per cent, the Coastal Plain 22.3, and the Mountain 

 region 4.2 per cent of the total material used by this industry in the 

 State. 



Of the woods used in making flooring, ceiling, siding, boxes, fruit and 

 vegetable packages, farming implements, mine rollers, boat siding, and 

 woodenware, more is consumed in the Coastal Plain than in the other 

 two regions together. In the Piedmont region over 50 per cent of the 

 total quantity of material used by thirteen industries is consumed in mak- 

 ing furniture, sashes, doors, and blinds, chairs, tables, vehicles, coffins, 

 and caskets, handles, shuttles, spools and bobbins, kitchin safes and cup- 

 boards, cross-arms, store and office fixtures, mantels -and interior trim- 

 mings, and excelsior. The one remaining industry, manufacturing insu- 

 lator pins and brackets, consumes in the Mountain region 64 per cent 

 of wood entering into these products. 



There are 676,166,250 feet of raw material going into manufactured 

 articles annually in North Carolina, and of this total 43.9 per cent is 

 used by the industries located in the Coastal Plain region, 54.2 per cent 

 by the manufacturers in the Piedmont section, and 1.9 per cent by those 

 of the Mountain region. Nearly six million dollars is expended annu- 

 ally in the Piedmont region for raw material delivered at the factory, 

 three and one-half million is spent in the Coastal Plain, and less than 

 two hundred thousand dollars in the Mountain region. This absence 

 of wood-using industries in the mountains is accounted for chiefly by 

 the lack of transportation facilities, which has existed in this region 

 until quite recently, and the consequent cost of getting timber to market. 

 The higher grades, which are the only ones that can profitably be hauled 

 over these mountain roads any considerable distance, are usually shipped 

 to the northern and western markets. With improved roads, however, 

 and additional railroads, there is no reason why the Mountain region 

 should not manufacture the greater part of its own raw material. 



