6 WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF ARKANSAS. 



Bureau of the Census in cooperation with the Forest Service ; and to list 

 and consider them again would be useless duplication. Part I of this 

 bulletin, then, shows what part of the sawmill output passes through 

 further processes of manufacture in the State, 1 and gives the average 

 prices paid at the factories for different species by every industry; 

 data showing what woods and what proportion of each grow in the 

 State or are brought in from outside; the properties which qualify 

 them for others; the efforts which have been successfully made to 

 reduce loss through waste; and finally the subject of markets, 

 though no effort has been made to present an exhaustive treatment 

 of the last. The statistics which form the basis of this part were 

 collected first-hand from manufacturers throughout the State, and 

 may therefore be depended upon to be as nearly correct as circum- 

 stances would allow. 



Part II deals with the timber on the National Forests in Arkansas 

 and the means of purchasing it. 



1 It is not possible fully to list or specify the grades and dimensions of lumber used by manufacturers 

 in any important industry, because practices differ. A box factory, for instance, might buy logs and do 

 its own sawing into all sizes needed; or it might purchase ordinary lumber, and resaw it; or it might want 

 nothing but thin lumber or veneer. The same is true of furniture factories. Almost every form, size, and 

 grade are good for some kind or some part of furniture; but every furniture factory does not make every 

 kind of furniture, and material which one manufacturer might buy, another could not use. Moreover, 

 the same factory does not buy similar sizes and grades at all times. 



Some industries, however, are in the market for well-established sizes and grades of stock. A good deal 

 of the wood for chairs is cut in regular sizes; buggy spokes, and poles, and shafts go to market in the same 

 way; and not infrequently other particular commodities are made from standard sizes of rough material. 

 But when such is the case it is simply the exception to the rule that almost every factory buys its un- 

 finished material on individual specifications. 



It is as nearly impossible to state what grades are demanded by industries as to designate the sizes. Prac- 

 tically every grade has some place to fill, but not infrequently a specific purpose demands a certain grade 

 and will take no other. 



A partial list of grades and sizes demanded by certain industries is given in the Appendix. 



