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VEHICLES AND VEHICLE PARTS. 



Table 8 presents statistics of vehicle manufacturers in 

 Florida. The quantity of wood demanded is small, but 

 the shops are well distributed over the State. There are 

 only a few factories which make buggies and wagons as 

 a business. The shops occasionally make a few vehicles, 

 but their principal work is repairing. Nearly all coun- 

 try blacksmith shops, and practically all in the towns, 

 repair wagons. A considerable part of the 167,095 feet in 

 Table 8 was used for repair work. The same woods which 

 enter into new vehicles serve for repairs of old. The aver- 

 age price is higher than in any other of the wood-using 

 industries of Florida. The species are the same as in 

 other industries, but the grades are better. Cypress is 

 third from highest, and is twenty-nine dollars above the 

 cost of the wood in any other table. The other woods 

 higher in this table than in any other are hickory, loblolly, 

 pine, mahogany, and white ash. One of the contributing 

 causes of the high cost of wood to the Florida vehicle 

 makers is that many of them buy in small amounts, and at 

 retail, and must pay more than if they took advantage of 

 wholesale prices. 



