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supplies chiefly come from Tennessee, Alabama 

 and Florida. Tliis timber is used for hollow 

 ware, such as buckets, etc., and for lead pencils. 

 Five million feet are used annually in bucket 

 factories, and about 500,000 feet for pencils. 

 The fine Eedwood of commerce is found only 

 on the coast range of California, the stand- 

 ing timber available being estimated at 

 25,000,000,000 feet b.m. (100 feet b.m.=8-3 

 cubic feet). There are fifty species of Oak in 

 the United States, and of these about a dozen 

 are cut for timber, being sold as White and Eed 

 Oak respectively. At one time only the white 

 variety was cut, it being used almost wholly 

 for construction and cooperage work. Oak is 

 now employed in large quantities for furniture, 

 panelling and interior decoration, and the annual 

 output has increased to about 3,000,000,000 feet, 

 the principal sources of supply being Kentucky, 

 Tennessee, Arkansas and West Virginia. The 

 various species of Hickory, one of the finest 

 American hard woods in point of strength and 

 toughness, are chiefly devoted to coach building 

 work of aU kinds, tool and implement handles, 

 etc. The timber now comes from Kentucky 

 and Tennessee, the vast Hickory forests of 

 Indiana being exhausted, while in the Eastern 

 States it has also become very scarce. Ash is 

 obtainable in large quantities in Tennessee and 



