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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



KITCHEN SAFES. 



This is the third subdivision of furniture classified in this study as a 

 distinct industry. It includes cupboards, safes, and cabinets. A cabi- 

 net is a kind of safe whose space is ingeniously divided up into many 

 compartments, providing a convenient place for provisions usually kept 

 on hand in the kitchen, such as flour, sugar, meal, salt, coffee, etc. This 

 class of furniture is more cheaply manufactured than articles for living- 

 rooms and parlors, and it does not require the skill of highly trained 

 workmen, nor the best grades of lumber for its manufacture. Oak is 

 the principal wood used, and averages in price only $11.39 per M, 

 while the oak from which chairs and tables are made was reported at a 

 cost of $18.16 and $17.13 per M, respectively. The quantity of yellow 

 poplar used was 1,575,000 feet, that being only 75,000 feet less than the 

 quantity of oak used. It was all grown in North Carolina, making this 

 the only industry considered in this study in which all of the poplar 

 used was grown in the State. The average price for this kind of w^ood 

 was $18.67 per M, which was $1.47 higher than the price paid by the 

 furniture makers. The oak is mostly used for the outside work of safes, 

 cabinets, and cupboards, while poplar is utilized for inside work, such 

 as shelvings, partitions, etc., and for both inside and outside work of 

 the cabinets. The chestnut was of the sound wormy grade, a limited 

 quantity only being used in 1909. The cost is about the average reported 

 by other industries for this kind of wood. It is all grown in North 

 Carolina. 



TABLE 20. KITCHEN SAFES, CABINETS, AND CUPBOARDS. 



CEOSS-AEMS. 



The making of cross-arms for telegraph and telephone poles is a very 

 simple operation. It consists merely in shaping into form, by the use 

 of machinery, the raw material purchased in the form of squares of the 

 proper size, and by boring holes for insulator pins. North Carolina 

 pine is the only wood reported for these products. The average price 



