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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



PLANKING FOR BOATS. 



White cedar is more in demand by the builders of boats and launches, 

 to be used as planking or siding, than any other wood required for that 

 purpose. In North Carolina the stand of white cedar, from which this 

 commodity can be manufactured, is being rapidly exhausted. Accord- 

 ingly, this industry has become entirely a side line, the white-cedai 

 shingle manufacturers producing all the boat planking made in North 

 Carolina in 1909. The average price of cedar as given in Table 25 was 

 $14.38. This being reported in terms of "log scale" indicates the high 

 price this commodity brings on the market in a manufactured state. 

 Shingles are not considered in this report, owing to their being in- 

 cluded with cooperage stock, cross-ties, etc., in the annual report issued 

 .by the Bureau of Census in cooperation with the Forest Service. Ex- 

 clusive of the material used for making shingles, therefore, 76 per cent 

 of the white cedar going into manufactures in this State is utilized for 

 boat siding;. 



TABLE 25. BOAT PLANKING. 



EXCELSIOR. 



Only three woods are reported in Table 26 for making excelsior in 

 North Carolina yellow poplar, white pine, and yellow pine, named 

 in the order of quantity used. The total amount manufactured was 

 800,000 feet, purchased at an outlay of $6,352.. The average price paid 

 for this raw material was $8.30 per M feet, delivered at the factory in 

 the form of billets and poles. The following table presents the available 

 statistics for 1909 : 



TABLE 26. EXCELSIOR. 



