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MASSACHUSETTS WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES. 



White birch was the principal spool wood, and Maine was the chief 

 source of supply, but Massachusetts grew one-tenth. Eleven per cent, 

 of all the wood employed in this industry grew in the State, and its 

 average cost per thousand was 72 per cent, of the cost of that shipped 

 from without. In every reported instance the price paid for outside 

 wood in this industry was above the price of that grown in Massa- 

 chusetts. 



TABLE 10. Shuttles, Spools and Bobbins. 



SHIPS AND BOATS. 



Twenty-one woods are used in boat building. White pine heads the 

 list, with 28 per cent, of all. Longleaf pine furnished nearly as much. 

 Only five species were supplied in part by Massachusetts, and the 

 amounts were very small, the aggregate being less than 2 per cent, of 

 the total. The State once supplied white pine masts for the largest 

 ships. The whole quantity of this species obtained in the State by 

 boat builders was only 5,800 feet in 1908, which was scarcely the 

 equivalent of two or three first-class masts. Four foreign woods were 

 reported, Spanish cedar, mahogany, English oak and teak. They 

 made finish for yachts, canoes and steamboats. Teak was the highest 

 priced and basswood the cheapest of the timbers reported for this 

 industry. The average price of all was $50.51, which was exceeded 

 by only three industries. Loblolly pine, an abundant southern timber, 

 was reported for this industry only. A large number of boats are in 

 use in Massachusetts, and the comparatively small quantity of lumber 

 reported for boat building indicates that the State is not supplying 



