OF VIRGINIA 



case is reversed. Here the stand of dogwood is more plentiful and the 

 quantity of it going into the rough shuttle manufacture naturally ex- 

 ceeds the amount of persimmbn. Table No. 24, giving the available 

 statistics, shows that this industry and the excelsior makers were the 

 only ones securing all of their raw material from Virginia grown tim- 

 ber. 



TABLE 24. SHUTTLE BLOCKS. 



TOBACCO BOXES 



Tobacco-box manufacture being a distinct industry from box mak- 

 ing, the material used for making them is presented in separate sta- 

 tistics. Plug tobacco boxes, cigar boxes, and tobacco retainers were the 

 commodities made in Virginia and included in Table 25. Red oak, 

 white oak, sycamore, and red gum were the woods used for plug to- 

 bacco boxes. The sugar maple alone served as material for retainer 

 sides, and yellow poplar and red gum with Spanish cedar and African 

 cedar met the demand of the cigar-box makers. 



Cigar-box material is bought in the form of thin lumber and 

 veneer, the former usually 5-32 of an inch in thickness. This ma- 

 terial as is customary was purchased and reported by superficial meas- 

 ure. To make it comparable with the other tables of this report it was 

 reduced to board measure and the prices correspondingly raised. Ac- 

 cording to square measure the prices ranged from $20 to $30 for 

 Spanish cedar and African cedar, $14 to $16 for yellow poplar and 

 $12 to $14 for red gum. Many of the cigar boxes were made of two- 

 ply veneer. Spanish cedar served as the exterior layer glued! to the 

 cheaper domestic veneers like yellow poplar or red gum. 



Plug tobacco boxes are lock-cornered, and like all lock^cornered 

 boxes they demand gluing. "The bevel-locked''', although not as much 

 as formerly, still remains in use. The bottoms of plug tobacco boxes 

 are often made of three-ply veneer, and sycamore and red gum are 

 favorite woods for this use. Solid bottoms and tops are also used, and 

 Mke the sides are made principally of white oak and red oak. 



