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four others are chiefly cut into thin stock upon which the veneer is 

 glued. Spanish cedar, imported principally from Mexico, is the 

 largest in quantity and in total cost, though two others cost more per 

 thousand red cedar and tupelo. Thirty-seven per cent of all the 

 cigar-box lumber is Spanish cedar. The largest use of inside wood, 

 as backing for the veneer, was of yellow poplar at an average cost of 

 $25.15 per thousand. Basswood was next, then tupelo, while red 

 gum, with a total of 100,000 feet, was least. The highest-priced wood 

 was tupelo at $42.46 per thousand, which was a higher price than 

 any other industry reported for the wood except furniture. The 

 amount used was nearly 8 per cent of the total for the industry. The 

 red cedar was cut into veneer. It grew in Virginia. No part of the 

 cigar-box wood was of Maryland growth, though four of the six species 

 are found in commercial quantities growing in the State. 



TABLE 11. Cigar Boxes. 



BRUSHES. 



Only two woods figured in the brush-making industry in Maryland, 

 beech and chestnut, and none of the former was cut in the State, but 

 95 per cent of the chestnut was grown in Maryland. Seventy-two per 

 cent of all the beech reported by the wood-using industries of the State 

 was made into brushes. The value of this wood in 1908, averaged for 

 the whole country for the run of the mills, was $13.50 per thousand. 

 The Maryland brush makers paid $5 advance on that value. The 

 chestnut bought in the State was low in price, $7.50 per thousand, 

 which was based on logs delivered at the mills and not on sawed lum- 

 ber. The chestnut brought from other States was $20 a thousand, 

 which was $5.61 more than the run-of-mill value of Maryland chest- 



