WOOD-USING INDUvSTRlES 



TABLE 17. INSULATOR PINS, BRACKETS, AND CROSS-ARMS. 



FIXTURES 



Material used in Virginia for making furnishings of fixtures for 

 stores, offices, bar rooms, banks, and churches has been grouped under 

 Table 18. Owing to the close relation of the products of this'industry 

 with high grade interior finish, grills, and mantels made by sash and 

 door factories, a number of manufacturers submitted reports covering 

 the manufacture of commodities belonging to both industries. The 

 separation of the* data proved not only very difficult but the division 

 was more or less inaccurate in a number of cases because estimates had 

 lo be depended upon. 



Fixtures consist of counters, show cases, soda fountains, bar 

 buffets, display racks, partitions, shelving, cabinets, church altars, 

 chancel furnishings, pews, etc. The woods used are of many varieties 

 chosen for their handsome figure and their quality to take a high 

 polish and to present an attractive finish. The average price paid for 

 this material was above that for any other industry except for lumber 

 going into ships and boats, and that used for patterns in iron foundries. 



White and red oak, chestnut, sweet birch, s'hortleaf pine, ash, 

 black walnut, red gum, and butternut were the domestic woods; and 

 rosewood, mahogany, Circassian walnut and jarra the foreign woods, 

 used for the exterior work. They have been named in the order of 

 their importance as to quality, and some of them were in the form of 

 veneer. The interior or hidden work was served by cheaper woods. 

 Yellow poplar, longleaf pine, cypress, and basswood were important 

 ones. Western red cedar was the only Pacific Coast wood made into 

 fixtures and this industry the only one in Virginia reporting its use. 

 Jarra, a (Eucalyptus marginatn} imported from Australia, was used 

 for the bottom of show cases and display windows. 



