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many people are only temporarily or incidentally and for a part of the 
year engaged in the exploitation of the forest would make such enumer- 
ation well nigh impossible. Besides the lumber industry and such 
kinds of exploitation as can be at least approximately enumerated— 
always remaining below the truth—a large number of industries and 
manufactures rely upon wood as the principal material, others employ- 
ing it toa greater or less extent. An attempt has been made to classify 
these according to the estimated percentage of wood entering into their 
products and assuming that capital, labor, and value of products add 
the same proportion to the total as the raw materials used. Asa matter 
of fact, there is probably more labor employed in shaping wood than 
this percentage would indicate. 
Forest industries and manufactures using wood. 
| Em- Raw | Value 
A eae r 
Articles. | Capital. | ployees. | W8eS: | material. lof product. 
Forest industries enumerated: Thousands Hundreds. Thousands Thousands Thousands 
Lumber and mill products ...... $496,340 2,862 $87,784 $231,556 $403,668 
Timber products not manufac- 
turedyabi millers asec eens 61,541 461 11,354 | 11,007 34,290 
NER LWIHONS Go cdekdoadeoduse acoos 4,063 153 | 2,933 3,506 8,077 
UNO odo huseaupaoanpaneeoce coos 561,943 | 3.477 | 102,071 245,169 446,034 
Manufactures practically all wood: | ay 
Ciganboxes eee econo neers | 3,374 55 | 2,134 3,567 7,092 
iPackineiboxesiee wea mele ote. 13,018 140 6,477 14,245 25,513 
Carriage and wagon stock ....... 13,028 109 5,208 1,388 16,262 
Garpentering {ester none 81,543 1,409 94,524 137,847 | 281,195 
Cooperage. . se Beer 17,817 247 | 11,655 2,637 38,618 
Furniture factory pr oducts ...... 66,394 639 34,471 38,796 94,871 
Kain alin eiwood eee. nee e een: 1,300 18 772 1,187 : 2,402 
aD EXS an SoH shang dd eau adee HOGaSHeS 908 8 572 331 | 1,239 
Planing-mill products SM eyetete, ve teveieiele | 120,271 | 869 48,970 104,927 183,682 
Matehes! (ys e in ed eee ee ee | 1 941 18 | 344 935 | 2,194 
Wood, turned and carved........ 7,826 | 84 4,267 3,947 | 10,940 
iW Ooden Wares. 8... Jobe hcenenae eee | 2,712 31 | 1,237 1,499 3,998 
AOD IT Sine sdonboqadqae’ Huson 7,455 28 | 1,229 2,005 | 4,628 
IWioodkcanpetie feces nccmecreteeee | 333 3) 155 214 | 512 
PO GAL ie Anes Neate eet ce ae aoa 337.908 3,650 212,027 _331, we) 672,750 
Manufactures in which wood repre- 
sents about 50 per cent of the raw | 
materials: * | 
Motaleee eres pe ctesorce ne sone ese 169,983 1,356 714,460 114,383 229.408 
Wroodipercentageyasss) enero tno. 89,991 687 35,7 730 57192 114,704 
Manufactures in which wood repre- 
sents about 33% per cent: + 
TOGA) ics sais coe ears neers 321.059 2,143 123,588 148,578 318,218 
Wood percentage. 2624. .0...2 sees | 107,619 714 41,196 | 49,526 106, O72 
Manufactures in which wood repre- | 
sents about 10 per cent: f | | 
Totalin ss oc seescpeecetoneors 76,841 | 915 46,854 49,291 131,820 
Wood percentage.................6.-.| 7,684 92 4,685 4,929 13,182 
Manufactures of wood | 
NOtallyr. secession olste 543,402 5,134 293,638 443,170 906,708 
* Includes carriages and wagon factory product, children’s carriages and sleds, steam and 
street cars, coffins and burial caskets, chairs, wheeibarrows, sewing machine cases, artificial 
limbs, refrigerators, and shipbuilding. 
+ Includes agricultural implements, billiard tables, railroad and street car repairs, furniture 
repairs, washing machines and wringers, organs and pianos. 
t Ineludes blacksmithing and wheelwrighting, bridges, brooms and brushes, gunpowder, 
artist’s materials, windmills, toys and games, sporting goods, lead pencils, pipes and pumps. 
To get at an idea of the significance of the forest resources in the 
economy of the country and of the comparative position of the indus- 
tries relying on forest products with reference to other industries the 
following compilation will serve, being based on census figures for 1890: 
