WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



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paid was $14.66 per M, or $2.55 above the average cost of this wood 

 used in the State by all manufacturers. The total was 2,800,000 feet, 

 and was less than three-fourths of 1 per cent of all the yellow pine 

 manufactured by the wood-using industries of North Carolina. 



TABLE 21. CROSS-ARMS (TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH). 



KIND OF WOOD. 



RAW MATERIAL USED ANNUALLY, AND 

 GROWN IN NORTH CAROLINA. 



Average 



Cost per Total Cost 

 Mbd.ft. Delivered 

 . m. Delivered at Factory, 

 at Factory. 



Percentage 



of Quantity 



Required 



by All 

 Industries 

 in State. 



North Carolina pine. 



2,816,000 $ 



14.66 $ 41,282.54 



PIPES, MINE ROLLERS, AND PULLEYS. 



Table 22 shows a practical use for black gum, which until recently was 

 considered of little value for manufacturing purposes. It is cheaper 

 than maple and has largely displaced it for the manufacture of mine 

 rollers, and is used with red gum in making pulleys. The annual quan- 

 tity of black gum used in North Carolina for making these products is 

 2,500,000 feet, reported at an average price of $8.36 per M. This is 

 the only class of manufacturers in the State reporting black gum : as a 

 raw material. 



Pipes have been classified under this industry for convenience of tabu- 

 lation, but have no relation to mine rollers and pulleys. These are 

 smoking pipes and are articles made of the root of the kalmia, which is 

 better known as mountain laurel. The laurel comes to the factory in 

 the form of roots and burls, and costs about 25 cents per hundred 

 pounds at the factory, which, reduced to the basis of board measure, 

 makes the price paid approximately $10 per M feet, board measure. 



TABLE 22. PIPES, PULLEYS, AND MINE ROLLERS. 



