A Preliminary Report of the Wood-Using 

 Industries of Indiana. 



F. J. BREEZE, INSTRUCTOR IN FORESTRY, PURDUE UNIVERSITY. 



This last year the State Board of Forestry sent out the follow- 

 ing questionaire to the firms engaged in wood-using industries : 



PLEASE FILL OUT AND RETURN TO DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY, 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



1. Name of firm. 



2. Address. 



3. Location of industry. 



4. When established. 



5. Number of persons regularly employed? 



6. How many days did your plant run in 1910? 



7. Are you able to sell your mill waste, such as sawdust, shavings and 



slabs? 



8. If so, for what purpose? 



9. Price received for mill waste? 



For Industries that Use Timber from the Woods. 



10. Estimate how long it will take before you will have to close or move 



for want of timber. 



11. What per cent, of the timber you use comes from Indiana? 



12. What per cent, are you able to get within a radius of 25 miles? 



13. What kind of timber do you use? 



14. Smallest size of each kind you can use? 



15. Price you pay at the mill for the different kinds per thousand feet 



or per cord? 



16. Compare present price with that of 10, 20 and 30 years ago? 



17. Give the list of articles you manufacture? 



18. State kind and amount of timber used for each? 



For Industries that Use Rate Tim'ber, Etc. 



19. What products do you manufacture? 



20. For the wood products that you manufacture are there substitutes 



of steel, concrete, paper, etc., offered for sale? 



21. Probable effect on the value of your wood products by these sub- 



stitutes ? 



22. Remarks on the future of the wood working industries and the tim- 



ber supply of the State. 



23. Shall we enter your name for a copy of our next annual report? 



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