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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



TABLE 25. TOBACCO BOXES. 



PATTERNS 



Table 26 shows the kinds of woods purchased and used for foun- 

 dry flasks and patterns. There are manufacturers in Virginia who 

 specialize in pattern making and sell their products to foundry men, 

 while a number of foundries have pattern departments in connection 

 and merely manufacture (heir own requirements. Foundry flasks are 

 frames holding the sand which is worked into relief shape ready to 

 receive the molten metal. The flask woods are not of high grades like 

 the pattern woods. Patterns are carefully cut from lumber into the 

 exact form of the article to be cast. White pine in all States is the 

 principal pattern wood and much of it shown in the table, especially 

 the 'high grades, went for this use. A large part of the white pine 

 was shipped from the Lake States. Close-grained woods, with incon- 

 spicuous figure and without resin, are the kinds the pattern makers de- 

 mand. Besides white pine, cherry and yellow poplar were used, while 

 the other wood shown in the table and yellow poplar went into the 

 foundry flasks. The average price of the woods grouped under this 

 industry exceeded twofold the cost of the same woods reported by 

 another class of manufacturers shown in this report. This high price 

 is because only the highest grades of expensive woods are used for the 

 commodities mentioned. Only one-sixth of the material made into 

 flasks and patterns came from forests of the State. 



TABLE 26. PATTERNS. 



