WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



superstructure. West Virginia spruce was called on for spars, water, 

 or black gum occasionally for keels, cottonwood and shortleaf pine for 

 templets, and white cedar or juniper for siding of small pleasure boats. 

 Hickory's only demand was for handles, and locust went into spokes and 

 trurmels. 



White and red oak, quartered and plain, -ash, cherry, mahogany, 

 yellow poplar, red gum, and teakwood are the cabinet woods used for 

 the boat's interior finish. Teakwood served for parts of the pilot 

 house and for armor backing. It was shipped from India. The boat 

 builders consume the largest quantity of mahogany of any of the in- 

 dustries in Virginia. It was imported from the west Coast of Africa 

 and from Mexico. 



TABLE 13. SHIP AND BOAT BUILDING. 



WOODENWARE, NOVELTIES, AND MATCHES 

 Pails, freezers, buckets, step ladders, lard trays, butter dishes, 

 calendar strips, and matches are the commodities covered by Table 14. 

 White cedar, juniper, and the light wood of cypress met the prin- 

 cipal demand for pails and ice-cream freezers. A large number of the 

 pails were intended for candy packing and these woods were selected 

 in preference to any because the source of supply is near at hand and 

 they have the necessary quality of imparting no taste to the goods con- 

 tained within them. More white cedar goes into pails than into any 

 other products made by Virginia factories. Horse buckets and well 



