TJ&ES AND SUPPLY OF WOOD. 

 Table 3. — Annual consumption of wood for planing-mill products. 



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Quantity. 



Average 

 cost per 

 1,000 feet 

 f. o. b. 

 factory. 



Total cost 

 f. o. b. fac- 

 tory. 



Grown 

 in Ar- 

 kansas. 



Grown 

 out of Ar- 

 kansas. 



Kind of wood. 



Feet b. m. 



Per 

 cent of 

 total. 



Shortleaf pine 



915,613,000 



66,333,000 



29,719,000 



18, 160, 000 



10, 624, 000 



7,712,000 



1,350,000 



1,000,000 



200,000 



15, 000 



11,000 



2,000 



87.14 



6.31 



2.83 



1.73 



1.01 



.73 



.13 



.10 



.02 



$9.84 

 11.94 

 11.08 

 12.07 

 11.77 

 14.11 

 15.07 

 15.00 

 40.00 

 53.00 

 195. 00 

 18.00 



$9,010,047 



791,920 



329, 175 



219, 159 



125, 105 



108, 809 



20, 350 



15,000 



8,000 



795 



2,145 



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Per cent. 

 95.97 

 24.62 

 100. 00 

 100. 00 

 100. 00 

 100. 00 

 100. 00 

 100. 00 



Per cent. 

 4.03 



Longleaf pine * 



75.38 







White oak 

















Ash 







100. 00 



Birch... 



100. 00 







100. 00 





100. 00 









Total 



1,050,739,000 



100.00 



10.12 



10,630,541 



91.71 



8.29 







Eighty-seven per cent of the wood shown in Table 3 is shortleaf 

 pine. This species furnishes most of the lumber in Arkansas, and the 

 large mills which plane their output to reduce freight saw shortleaf 

 pine far in excess of all other species. Most of the longleaf pine 

 comes from outside the State, and is cut by mills near the Louisiana 

 border. 



The low average cost of the lumber in Table 3 is based to a large 

 extent on the cost of stump age, logging, and sawing; the first of 

 which is evidently figured very low, especially in the case of shortleaf 

 pine, the cost of which is generally estimated in the log f. o. b. mill. 



BOXES AND CRATES. 



Boxes and crates as understood in this report include containers 

 and shipping cases of nearly every kind, if made wholly or partly of 

 wood, but baskets are considered separately in Table 11. Box fac- 

 tories buy their raw material in many forms. Some purchase logs 

 and saw them into dimensions desired, others cut them into veneer by 

 the rotary process. Lumber is frequently resawed, or low-grade 

 material culled over. Few box mills turn out nailed boxes, but make 

 shooks and sell them in the knocked-down condition. A form of 

 box much used has veneer for sides, reenforced corners, and thick 

 lumber for ends. Shipping cases of that design are light and often 

 as strong as all-lumber boxes. Three-ply veneer, the grain of the 

 middle sheet crossing that of the outside sheets at right angles, is 

 widely used for large as well as small boxes. Red gum, as Table 4 

 shows, is the wood most used in Arkansas for boxes, with shortleaf 

 pine next. Cottonwood, cypress, sycamore, and ash are often selected 

 for boxes in which provisions are shipped, because these woods are 

 remarkably free from stain and odor. Elm and oak are preferred for 

 crates which must resist strains and shocks. 



