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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



TABLE LXVII. Instruments, professional and scientific 



ELEVATORS 



Next to the last in the list of industries, from the standpoint of 

 lumber used, are elevators. The manufacturers report 583,000 

 board feet, six woods representing- the amount. Steel to so large 

 an extent has replaced wood in elevator construction that wood is 

 not an important factor compared to what it used to be. It is an 

 exception today to see the old time wooden elevator car in operation. 

 The woods the Ohio manufacturers demand go into dumb waiters, 

 hand elevators and the wooden parts of power 'elevators, both 

 passenger and freight. Long-leaf pine answers principally for 

 guides, hard maple for the platforms and tracks, shortleaf pine for 

 the gates, and white oak and maple for bottoms or flooring-. One- 

 fifth of the wood reported was obtained in the State. 

 TABLE LXVIII. Elevators 



SADDLES AND HARNESS 



Stirrups are the principal commodity included in the table under 

 this heading. Elm, red and white oak, basswood and hackberry 

 were the woods furnishing the raw material, purchased in form of 

 bolts. Elm was the favorite as to quantity, but red, white and bur 

 oak were used for the better grades of stirrups. Basswood served 

 principally for the upper part called the head or neck blocks while 



