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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF CALIFORNIA. 



Sugar pine. California. 



Hot grease vats ; small tanks ; troughs ; water boxes. 



Soft ; nails well ; resists decay. 



Rough or surfaced on two sides, clear and select, 1 to 3 inches thick. 

 Sitka spruce. Oregon ; Washington. 



Tanks. 



Tasteless; durable. 



Rough, clear, ^ to 1J inches thick. 



Eastern maple (hard maple). New England; Lake States; 



Middle West ; South. 



Of total amount of eastern maple manufactured 0.2 per cent used in 

 this industry. 



Acid tanks and vats. 



Hard. 



Rough, clear and select, 1^ to 2 inches thick. 



Lawson cypress (white cedar, Port Orford cedar). Oregon. 



Tanks and vats. 

 Bends well; durable. 

 Rough, clear, and select, 1 to 2 inches thick. 



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TRUNKS AND VALISES. 



Sitka spruce. Oregon ; Washington. 



Of total amount of spruce manufactured 1.9 per cent used in this 

 industry. 



Trunk boxes and trays. 



Light, soft, tough, easily worked ; nails without splitting. 



Shocks ; rough or surfaced lumber. 



Boxes : medium grades, f to J inch thick. 



Box ends :* f inch thick. 



Trays : inch thick. 



By-products : doll trunks, small tool cases. 



