OF VIRGINIA 33 



Walnut from the Philippine Islands, white mahogany from the west 

 Coast of Mexico, and silver ava, unidentified as to species and origin, 

 are species which so far have not appeared in any other wood using 

 industry report. 



INDUSTRIES 



An industry as considered in this report embraces all the factories 

 in the State which make similar or closely related wooden commodities. 

 For example, while 472 manufacturers furnished the information for 

 this report, they have been grouped into twenty-three Industries or 

 classes. The same headings which group the Virginia manufacturers 

 have been, and will continue to be, used in preparing similar reports 

 for other States. Where the making of a product for a specific use 

 is a distinct business, though the classification of it would be permissible 

 under a more general heading, a separate division or industry was re- 

 cognized. For instance, cigar boxes and veneer fruit and vegetable 

 baskets, or packages, can properly be classified under box making; 

 but in Virginia a number of manufacturers specialize in making one 

 or the other commodity and in consequence the data concerning the 

 material used will be presented in separate industry tables. For the 

 same reason the chair factories have been classified separately from the 

 furniture factories. 



In collecting the data for this report, the Forest Service assured 

 Virginia manufacturers that in the compilation of the report informia- 

 tion on individual concerns would not be revealed. To make this rule 

 effective, where there were less than three manufacturers making the 

 same products, they were not grouped into a separate industry as was 

 the case where more than three reported. Instead of discarding the 

 data in these cases the reports were grouped together and indiscrim- 

 inately' compiled under a general heading, Miscellaneous. 



Table 3 sets forth the comparative quantities and value of the wood 

 independent of kind used by the twenty-three industries and gives the 

 amounts and prices of the material grown at home and that shipped 

 in from other lumber producing regions. 



