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respect served with spruce. Oak and mahogany met the demand 

 for trim, guards and rails of canoes. In canvas folding boats the 

 framework was of white ash,' the floors of cypress and spruce. 

 Cherry and mahogany were reported for pitot wheels and white ash 

 and spruce were used for boat oars and canoe paddles. 



TABLE LIX. Ship and boat building 



FRAMES AND MOLDINGS 



In segregating the industries care was taken not to include 

 under this table the woods employed in the manufacture of house 

 moldings as turned out by planing mills, so this industry deals 

 entirely with the manufacture of moldings for picture frames, highly 

 carved moldings for high grade cabinet work, show cases, etc. The 

 fourteen woods included in the list in the following table, represent- 

 ing a total of 2,809,961 board feet, were carefully selected by the 

 manufacturer for special purposes, depending upon the desirability 

 of the wood; and the average price paid per thousand feet, $42.01, 

 indicates that the best grades of lumber are desired and that cheap- 

 ness is not one of the prime considerations. The lowest average 

 price paid was for yellow poplar and chestnut, and the highest, 

 $115.02, for mahogany strips, which, strange to say, is the only 

 foreign wood reported. With the advanced methods of kiln drying 

 lumber, red gum formerly unheard of in this line of manufacture is 

 now a satisfactory material and leads the list according to amounts. 



