WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



TABLE 1. SUMMARY, KINDS OF WOOD USED IN VIRGINIA. 



* Less than one tenth of one per cent. 



Of the woods used by the manufacturers only seven were re- 

 ported as coming entirely from Virginia forests. They were scrub 

 pine, yellow or black oak, white (soft) elm, yellow buckeye, persim- 

 mon, sassafras, and silver maple. On the other hand, the entire sup- 

 plies of rock elm, butternut, and osage orange come from other 

 States. These woods are cut in Virginia in quantities more than suf- 

 ficient to meet the local demands, but the manufacturers evidently 

 found shipped-in woods more convenient. It is significant of the 

 growing scarcity of native, eastern softwoods that three species from 



