Taste 25.—W ood products and employment, 1937} 
Employment 
Industry or commodity | Units pro- a 
duced In woods | At plants Total 
M board Thousand | Thousand | Thousand 
feet man-days | man-days man-days 
RMD EY te eee eee ee 941, 200 1, 082 1, 930 3,012 
Weneeins sete cuwe ste ee 72, 700 150 256 406 
Preces | 
Gross‘tiess = aes 2, 282, 000 BiGy| eee eee ee 316 
Poles and piles___.-_---_- 234, 000 AS ig | Penne ee it te 43 
Fence posts_-_---_-------| 14, 622, 000 LOSS Sis eee 198 
Treating plants_-.-------|_- 28%. Eas Rep eerie ravens 69 69 
Cords 
eae CO Ce eee ee 23, 645, 200  ODb) | See ee 5, 056 
@ooperage._ 2.2 Es; 64, 900 60 82 142 
Miscellaneous (ine fading | 
Up WOO) 222 O22 ~ ee 204, 300 275 298 573 
Total man-days of | 
SLUplOMMeN bese ose ee 7, 180 2, 635 | 9,815 
1 For data by survey units see table 51, appendix. 
2 Does not include about a million cords of fuel wood derived from saw- 
mill waste and other secondary sources. 
important movement of pulp mills to the south, three 
pulp mills have located in south Georgia—one each at 
Savannah, Brunswick, and St. Marys. Only one of 
these was operating in 1937, but when all are operating 
full time, they will consume over 550,000 cords of wood 
annually (most of it from Georgia) and will presumably 
supply part- or full-time work for 8,000 to 12,000 men. 
Other pulp mills located nearby in Florida, Tennessee, 
and the Carolinas took only a small amount of pulpwood 
from Georgia in 1937 but in the near future will probably, 
draw on this State for a considerable portion of their 
supply. 
In 1937 approximately 4% million cords of wood was 
consumed for fuel. Most of this was used in homes, on 
farms, and in small towns, but almost 0.5 million cords 
went into turpentine stills, cotton gins, sirup plan 
tobacco barns, laundries, and ice plants. q 
In 1937 approximately 234,000 poles and piles were pro- 
duced, supplying woods work for 400 to 450 men. Prac 
tically all were pine, mostly from south Georgia. To meet 
exacting specifications, the larger poles and piles must be 
taken from the highest-quality material of the growing 
stock. That same year (1937) railroads used about 244 
million cross ties, providing woods work for another 3,000 
or more men. Of these ties 51 percent were pine, 34 per 
cent were cypress, and 15 percent hardwood (mostly gums 
and oaks). The 6 wood-treating plants in the State gave 
employment to several hundred men, mostly in treatin 
poles, piles, and cross ties. Also 14% million fence posts, 
most of them used locally on farms, were produced in 1937. 
In addition to the plants previously mentioned, there — 
were in 1937 at least 63 others of small size, including 
handle plants using hickory and ash; bobbin or shuttle 
mills using dogwood and persimmon; excelsior mills using 
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pine; and shingle mills using cypress and pine. 
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Employ ment 
The industries just enumerated, exclusive of the naval — 
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stores industry, furnished nearly 10 million man-days of 7 
employment in 1937. Excluding the labor involved in — 
producing fuel wood and fence posts, commodities that — 
are usually cut by farmers for local use, there were about — 
4.6 million man-days of employment in the lumber, veneer, 
and other wood-using industries. Since in Georgia the — 
harvesting, transportation, and manufacture of forest — 
products are to a large degree part-time operations, often a 
supplementing farming, it is difficult to translate man- 
days of labor required into number of people actually — 
employed, but it is likely that at least 50,000 nen found — 
full- or part-time work in the forest and wood-products — 
industries, not including naval stores. 
