32 WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



from a single species. Douglas fir trees are noted for their great size 

 and from them timbers of exceptional width and length are sawed. 

 Ship builders use the most in Virginia. 



Sugar pine resembles white pine and to meet the same uses as the 

 upper grades of white pine it was brought to Virginia from the Pacific 

 Coast Region. The range of this tree is confined almost to one State. 

 Tt extends but a short distance beyond the northern boundary of Cali- 

 fornia, in Oregon. 



The western red cedar is indigenous to our northwest adjacent 

 continental territory and Alaska, and is the third Pacific Coast wood 

 according to quantity shown in this report. 



OTHER WOODS 



Cherry is very scattered over the western part of Virginia and only 

 21 sawmills reported cutting small quantities in 1909. The Virginia 

 manufacturers purchased little of the State's cut, as 97 per cent of the 

 cherry used came from Maryland and West Virginia. Next to walnut 

 it is the highest priced domestic wood reported in Virginia. 



The yellow or sweet buckeye tree, a native of the mountains, is 

 the species most commonly cut as lumber in Virginia, although the 

 Ohio buckeye is also found growing in this State in comparatively small 

 quantities. These trees while of the same family as the horse chest- 

 nut so commonly seen as a shade tree are a different species. 



Sassafras is noted as the tree having leaves of many shapes and 

 sizes. It bears clusters of blue berries which ripen in Virginia, in 

 August. In Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee and 

 further south it reaches proportions of from three to occasionally five 

 feet in diameter. The stand is infrequent and not over one-half mil- 

 lion feet was sawed into lumber last year. Sassafras wood is verv 

 durable. 



FOREIGN WOODS 



Some foreign woods are purchased by Virginia manufacturers. 

 Mahogany leads, with nearly one-half million feet. Teak wood comes 

 next in quantity and surpasses in amount that used by Illinois wood 

 users, or by the manufacturers of any of the twelve States for which 

 reports similar to this has been completed. It was imported from Cey- 

 lon, India, and Siam. Spanish cedar is not a coniferous tree like the 

 native cedars nor is it related. It has broad leaves and grows in tropi- 

 cal countries. The small quanity of this wood used by the cigar box 

 makers in Virginia was reported as shipped from the West Indies. 

 The highest price was paid for rosewood sent from Central America. 



