60 Eleventh Annual Report 



Three hundred and two copies were returned from plants in 

 operation. In most cases, the questions were not all answered, or 

 only partly answered. A large number of concerns, im-luding some 

 of the very largest manufacturing plants, sent in no reports at 

 all. This report, based on these answers, is only preliminary and 

 is of necessity incomplete. 



A report based on complete and accurate returns from the 

 ■".vood-using concerns can be of great service to those manufacturers. 

 A careful inventory of our timber resources, together with an ac- 

 curate knowledge of the conditions existing in the wood-using in- 

 dustries, will enable the manufacturer to pretty accurately forecast 

 future conditions and to plan his business accordingly. The owner 

 of standing timber can learn from such a report the various species 

 of trees which enter into the wood manufactures and thereby know 

 the present market demands and also gain insight into the probable 

 future demands. 



This report covers the timber of our own State and that from 

 outside the State which is sawed into lumber and dimension stock 

 or remanuf actured within the State into the various wood products. 

 That is, the industries engaged in the sawing of timber from Indi- 

 ana or of logs shipped from other States, and the industries en- 

 gaged in the remanufacture of lumber which may come from this 

 State or other States are considered. No account is taken of 

 the large quantity of lumber coming from other States which goes 

 into use directly without further remanufacture, such as lumber 

 and heavy construction timbers. Nor is any account taken of the 

 wood of the State which is used for fuel and posts or sawed into 

 lumber by the hundreds of portable sawmills and used directly 

 upon the farms. 



The many wood-using industries may be divided into the fol- 

 lowing classes : 



(1) Sawmills which produce lumber and dimension stock, the 

 only change in the raw material being that of dissection. 



(2) Industries which remanufacture the lumber in products 

 made wholly of wood, such as planing mill products, furniture and 

 cooperage. 



(3) Industries which combine wood and iron in the manufac- 

 tured product, the wood being a very important factor, such as ve- 

 hicles and agricultural implements. 



(4) Industries in which wood does not enter into the finished 

 products, but is used for boxes and crates for the shipment of the 

 products. 



