WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 25 



FLOORING, CEILING,, SIDING, ETC. 



So usual is it for sawmills in yellow-pine regions to market a large 

 part of their cut in the form of flooring, ceiling, etc., that the public 

 generally associates these products with the output of sawmills. The 

 items in Table 7 represent that portion of the lumber produced by saw- 

 mills which, with the aid of planing-mill machinery, is converted into 

 flooring, ceiling, siding, wainscoting, partitions, stock moldings, and 

 casings. Roofers, box lumber, and boards merely surfaced are not con- 

 sidered as a part of these figures, as it is possible for these to be utilized 

 later in the manufacture of other commodities. This table was com- 

 piled from statistics furnished by the sawmills which have planing-mill 

 departments, but it includes, also, data furnished by the planing mills 

 throughout the State which do not operate sawmills, but buy their 

 lumber. Plate II. 



This industry is the largest in the State, based on the quantity of 

 wood used. Forty-five per cent of all the wood manufactured in North 

 Carolina goes to these factories. The amount of money representing 

 this raw material is over one-half of that expended by all the wood-using 

 industries collectively. One-third of the number of wood users of all 

 kinds in North Carolina are engaged in this industry. 



By referring back to Table 6 it will be seen that more than half of 

 the flooring, ceiling, and siding is produced by the same firm which cuts 

 the rough lumber from the log from which these products are manu- 

 factured. 



Yellow pine heads the list of species for quantity. It is the most 

 abundant wood in the State, and the North Carolina manufacturers of 

 these products use over fifty times as much of it as of all other woods 

 combined. It enters into all the products of the flooring, ceiling, and 

 siding industry, while yellow poplar is devoted mostly to the manufac- 

 ture of siding and moldings. Cypress, being especially suitable for out- 

 door work, is used largely for porch flooring. Maple and oak are used 

 in nominal amounts and are converted into flooring and inside trim- 

 ming. 



The proportion of each kind of wood used in this industry to the total 

 cf that wood used in the State is seen by consulting the last column of 

 Table 7. This shows that 72.4 per cent of all the yellow pine manufac- 

 tured in North Carolina is converted into flooring, ceiling, siding, etc., 

 while 87 per cent of the cypress is taken by this industry, and 7 per 

 cent of the poplar. 



