WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF CALIFORNIA. 



INDUSTRIES. 



Six hundred separate operators manufacture finished products, 

 although all of them do not consider wood as their principal raw 

 material. 



Sixty-six per cent of the timber that they use is grown in California ; 

 :2S per cent in Oregon and Washington; 5 per cent in the remainder of 

 the United States; and 1 per cent in foreign countries, including the 

 Philippine and Hawaiian islands. Sixty-four per cent of the western 

 ellow pine lumber produced in the State is used in the wood-using 



.ustries, together with 20 per cent of the redwood, 18 per cent of the 



uglas fir, 32 per cent of the sugar pine, 21 per cent of the white fir, 



d 13 per cent of the incense cedar lumber. Western yellow pine 

 ks first in amount and value ; redwood second in amount and third 

 in value, while Douglas fir stands third in amount and ranks second 

 in value. 



Among the industries specified, Douglas fir ranks first in ten; red- 

 wood in nine ; plain white oak, eastern maple, and Sitka spruce in two ; 

 and western yellow pine, black cottonwood, Lawson cypress, Spanish 

 cedar, hickory, red gum, yucca, Oregon maple and cherry, each first in 

 one. Thirty-four industries in all are tabulated. 



The following table gives a comparison between the wood-using 

 industries of the three Pacific coast states, California, Washington and 

 Oregon : 



In the tables embodied in this report, a particular manufacture is 

 not considered an industry unless three or more factories are engaged 

 in it, but the data go into the miscellaneous table. This is done to pre- 

 serve the confidential nature in which the information was submitted. 



Where veneer enters into the industry, it has been reduced to the 

 basis of inch boards, and totaled with the lumber. In most cases, under 

 the industry, the actual number of square feet of veneering used is 

 given. It should be mentioned, however, that in 1910 California con- 

 sumed 183,000 feet (log scale) of wood in the manufacture of veneers. 



Where the percentage of manufactured lumber of any species used in 

 an industry is not given, it means that the amount is less than 0.1 per 

 cent of the total. 

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