WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



of the truck. Sidings or side panels of passenger cars were made of 

 yellow poplar, though ash, too, answered for this purpose. Plain and 

 quartered oak and ash were the principal woods for inside finish, yel- 

 low poplar, cherry, white pine, and mahogany, walnut and birch were 

 the other woods contributing to the cabinet work. 



Ash, poplar, and Douglas fir were the woods used in building the 

 principal parts of locomotive cabs. The floors of the cabs were m-ade 

 of maple, and the bumpers, pilots, and other wood parts of engines 

 were made from oak, principally white oak. 



TABLE 6. CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE CONSTRUCTION. 



SASH, DOORS, AND GENERAL MILLWORK 



Information of material classified under Table 7 was reported by 

 manufacturers making sash, doors, blinds, window and door frames, 

 and general millwork such as is needed for porches, cornices, stairwork, 

 specially designed interior trini, mantels, and grills. The line sepa- 

 rating these factories from those described under Table 5, doing only 

 general planing-mill business is clearly drawn as long as these special 

 lines are adhered to. But when considering information furnished 

 by factories which make all or a part of the products grouped under 

 both industries, as in the case of small planing mills which supply 

 local demand, it was difficult to correctly separate the information. 

 In these instances arbitrary action was necessary and was exercised 

 by those who did the field work guided by approximations gained 

 from practical men. 



More than 55 per cent of all the wood used by the factories grouped 

 under this industry was grown in Virginia. Loblolly pine furnisheJ 

 the largest portion of the home-grown wood, and was first in quantity 



