60 USES OF COMMERCIAL WOODS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



ments in the Mississippi Valley, and further East, for all classes of 

 planing-mill stock, including flooring, ceiling, finish, siding, sheath- 

 ing, shelving, doors, sashes, panels, columns, lattice, pantry work, and 

 a long list of other forms. It is claimed that in some instances sash 

 factories buy rough lumber in the Eocky Mountain region, have it 

 shipped to Chicago or some other manufacturing center, make win- 

 dows of it, and sell them in the region, perhaps the very town, 

 whence the rough lumber came. This is made possible by the fact 

 that glass is manufactured in the East, and the large sash factories 

 locate near the glass supply. In -some instances, but less frequently 

 than in the case of sash, western white pine doors are made in dis- 

 tant cities and are shipped to the Rocky Mountain region to be sold 

 near where the wood grew. 



In the region where this white pine grows in proximity to mer- 

 chantable Douglas fir and western yellow pine, it finds few buyers, 

 because the other woods undersell it. In some instances the fir and 

 yellow pine shipped to the Rocky Mountains from farther west are 

 sold at a lower price than the white pine, and have crowded the 

 latter out of its home market. It finds sale, however, farther east, 

 where its chief competitor is the white pine cut in the Lake States. 

 Thus the spectacle is presented of Pacific coast lumber entering the 

 Rocky Mountain region and driving a native lumber from that 

 market, and the displaced commodity, in its turn, competing success- 

 fully in the eastern market with a splendid wood of the East. 



The western white pine has a wide market, won and held on its 

 merit. It is shipped as far east as Boston, is in demand south of the 

 Ohio River, enters the principal markets of the Central States, and 

 is used for orange boxes in California, though the amount so used is 

 not large. A considerable quantity of it has been exported to Aus- 

 tralia. The total yearly output of western white pine lumber prob- 

 ably exceeds 150,000,000 board feet. Much of it goes into rough 

 construction, but a large amount is used for other purposes. Fac- 

 tories making window blinds and shutters use this wood because of 

 its light weight and its comparative freedom from resin, decay, and 

 other defects. It finishes nicely and paints well. The same qualities 

 recommend it for doors, window frames, and finish, both inside and 

 out. It has been pronounced as good for picture frames, cabinet work, 

 veneer backing, pyrography, baskets, and all classes of woodenware, 

 and other plain and ornamental molding as the eastern white pine. 

 It finds a place in undertaking establishments in the manufacture 

 of burial boxes, in which the casket or coffin is placed. It has some 

 use for shipping boxes for fruit and merchandise, but such use has 

 not yet become important, because in the fruit-growing sections of 

 the regions where this tree grows, as well as farther east, other woods 

 are cheaper. Conditions very similar lessen its use for large packing 



