MASSACHUSETTS WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES. 



TABLE 1. Kinds of Wood used, Quantity of Each, with Total Cost, and the 

 Per Cent, grown in the State and out. 



1 The average price per M. for all the wood reported was $21 .29. 



It is evident that Massachusetts is still a white pine State. It 

 has always been that. The original forests contained some of the 

 finest white pine ever cut in America ; but the virgin stand was felled 

 long ago, and the second, third and perhaps the fourth growths are 

 now being drawn upon. How well the demand is met is indicated 



