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MASSACHUSETTS WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES. 



CABINETS, AND STORE AND OFFICE FIXTURES. 



The manufacturers of cabinets and of fixtures for stores and offices 

 paid a higher average price for their lumber than was paid by any 

 other wood-using industry in the State. The. cheapest reported for 

 this industry was hemlock, and its average was $25. The average 

 for mahogany was $149.05. Much high-grade white oak, basswood 

 and maple were reported. The dividing line between cabinets and 

 fixtures is frequently difficult to define, and no attempt to do so has 

 been made here. Of the lumber used, the State grew 10 per cent., 

 but it received little more than 5 per cent, of the total price. For 

 three of the woods, however, the State-grown product commanded 

 higher prices than the same species grown elsewhere. These woods 

 were chestnut, white oak and yellow poplar. 



TABLE 17. Cabinets, and Store and Office Fixtures. 



BASKETS. 



Next after the woods used for cooperage and tanks, presented in 

 Table 9, basket makers paid the lowest average price for their lumber. 

 Much of it came to them as logs, and they did all the manufacturing. 

 In other cases it was partly manufactured when it reached them. 

 In this industry the average price for home-grown material was lower 

 than for the imported, but the State furnished less than one-fourth 

 of the total. 



