32 WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, ETC. 



The makers of sash, doors, and blinds often manufacture inside and 

 outside finish for buildings. The industry differs from that which 

 turns out flooring, ceiling, stock molding, and siding, in that it calls for 

 more complicated machinery and usually requires labor of greater skill. 

 Special designs are frequently required, and each must be worked out 

 with judgment and care. Stairways, newel and landing posts, arch- 

 ways, special wainscoting, casing and moldings to order, store fronts, 

 cornice work, porch work, brackets, and spindles, are illustrations. 



Fourteen kinds of wood are demanded by the sash and door facto- 

 ries of North Carolina, and 57,600,000 feet are used yearly, which is 

 more than 8% per cent of all the wood manufactured in the State. Yel- 

 low pine, which includes North Carolina pine and some longleaf, leads 

 the list in quantity and cost. The quantity is 85 per cent of the total 

 wood used by this industry, of which 1,000,000 feet, mainly longleaf 

 pine, was shipped into the State from South Carolina. The imported 

 pine cost about $1 per M feet more than that grown in North Carolina. 

 White pine is next in quantity and constitutes 27 per cent of all the 

 white pine manufactured in the State. It is all grown in North Caro- 

 lina and, as shown in the table, was purchased -at an average price of 

 $17.95, delivered at the factory. The price paid for yellow poplar 

 recorded in Table 10 was $2.09 more per M feet than was paid by the 

 flooring, ceiling, siding, etc., manufacturers, and $1.25 less than the 

 price paid by the furniture makers. Spruce, purchased at $12.50 per 

 M feet, cottonwood, cucumber, and box elder, at $12 per M feet, were 

 not reported for any other industry in North Carolina. This industry 

 demanded 35,000 feet of ash, which was one-fourth of all reported in 

 the State. 



