36 WOOD-USING INDUSTKIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



TABLES. 



The manufacture of tables in North Carolina is in itself a large in- 

 dustry, entirely distinct from that of furniture making. Like furni- 

 ture and chairs, the manufacturers making tables are located mostly 

 in the Piedmont region of the State. Every kind of table from the 

 cheapest for kitchen use to the most elaborately carved parlor and 

 library table is manufactured. Table 12 shows that 31,868,000 feet of 

 lumber, or 5 per cent of the total consumed in manufacturing in the 

 State, were used, at an average cost of $17.06 per thousand. Red, 

 white, Spanish, and chestnut oak, aggregating 21,947,000 feet, head the 

 list of woods for this industry. The wood is all grown in North Caro- 

 lina and is 15 per cent of the total oak used by manufacturers in this 

 State. Longleaf and North Carolina pine are next in importance to 

 oak for the manufacture of tables. This, too, was State grown, and 

 4,520,000 feet were purchased at an average of $13.14 per thousand. 

 Of the 4,000,000 feet of poplar going into tables, 65 per cent is shipped 

 in from neighboring States, Tennessee furnishing the larger portion of 

 it. The average price for poplar in this industry was $20.96, which is 

 $3.76 more than was paid for this wood by furniture manufacturers. 

 Chestnut, which stands next to poplar in quantity, is used mostly for 

 cores in making built-up table tops; 1,000,000 feet was reported, which 

 was 13 per cent of the total chestnut manufactured in North Carolina. 

 The remaining species named in the following table are used in very 

 nominal quantities and range in price from $16 per M feet for bass- 

 wood to $120 per M for mahogany. 



