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FORESTKY INVESTIGATIONS U. 8. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



Forest industries and manufactures using wood. 



Artie les. 



Forest industries enumerated: 



Lumber and mill products 



Timber products not manufactured at mill 



Naval stores 



Total 



Manufactures practically all wood: 



Cigar bo^es '- 



Packing boxes > 



Carriage and wagon stock 



Carpentering 



Cooperage 



Furniture-factory products 



Kindling wood - 



Latsts 



Planing-mill products 



Matches » 



Wood, turned and can ed *. 



Wo o d en w ai e 



"Wood pulp 



Wood carpet 



Total 



Manufactures in wlncli wood represents about 50 per cent of the raw 

 materials : a 



Total 



Wood percentage 



Manufactmes in which wood represents about 33* x>er cent of the raw 

 materials: b 



Total 



Wood percentage 



Manufactures in which wood represents alxu.it 10 yar cent of the raw 

 materials . e 



Total 



Wood percentage --. . 



Total manufactures of w ood 



Capital. 



Employees. 



Wages. 



Haw mate- 

 rial. 



Value of 

 produc t. 



Thousands. 



Hundreds. 



Thousands. 



Thousands. 



Thousands. 



$496, 340 



2, SG2 



$87, 7S4 



$231,536 



$103, 668 



61, 341 



401 



11, 354 



11,007 



34, 290 



4,063 



133 



2, 933 



3, 506 



8,077 



561, 943 



3, 477 



102, 071 



245, 169 



446, 034 



3,37£ 



53 



2,134 



3,5G7 



7,092 



n, 01S 



140 



6,477 



14, 245 



25, 513 



13, 028 



109 



5. 208 



s/^S 



16, 262 



81, 543 



1,409 



94,524 



137, 847 



281, 195 



1/, OH 



247 



11,635 



2, 637 



38, 618 



66, 39 1 



639 



34 471 



38, 796 



94, 871 



1, 300 



18 



772 



1,187 



2,402 



908 



8 



572 



331 



1, 239 



120, 271 



8G9 



48, 970 



104,927 



183, 682 



1,941 



38 



344 



933 



2, 194 



7, 826 



84 



4, 267 



3,947 



10, 940 



2,712 



31 



1, 237 



1, 499 



3, 598 



7, 455 



28 



1, 229 



2, 005 



4,628 



333 



3 



155 



214 



512 



337, 908 



3, 650 



212, 027 



331, 523 



672, 730 



169, 983 



1,*356 



714, 400 



114,383 



229, 408 



89*991 



687 



35, 7.J0 



57, 102 



114, 704 



321, 039 



143 



123, 588 



148, 578 



318, 218 



107, 619 



714 



41,196 



49, 526 



106,072 



76, 841 



913 



40, 854 



49, 201 



131, 820 



7,684 



92 



4, GS3 



4, 929 



13, 182 



u43, 402 



3,131 



29^, 638 



413,170 



906, 708 



a Includes carriages and wagon factory product, children's carriages and sleds, steam and street cars, coffins .md lmiial caskets, chaiis, 

 wheelbarrows, sewing-machine cases, artificial limbs, refrigerators, and shipbuilding. 



b Includes agricultural implements, billiard tables, railroad and street car repairs, furnituie repairs, washing machines and wringers, 

 and organs and pianos. 



e Includes hlacksraithing and wheel wri&hting, bridges, brooms and brushes, gunpowder, artists' materials, windmills, toys and games, 

 sporting goods, lead pencils, pipes, and pumps. 



The most valuable part of tlxe forest growth, that which it took the longest time to grow, is, 

 of course, that which is cut into lumber. The lumber and sawmill business of the United States 

 has no equal in the world in extent or in efficiency. From being hardly developed fifty years ago 

 beyond local importance, this business, through the development of the means of transportation 

 as well as of the country to the west, has rapidly advanced to enormous proportions. 



The extent and distribution of the sawmill business through the States is, perhaps, best illus- 

 trated by the following statement of the number of the various classes of mills and their daily 

 capacity as computed from the Directory of the Northwestern Lumberman: 



Xumber of mills, logging railroads, and daily capacity of mills. 

 [Computed from data published in Northwestern Lumberman, 1892.] 





Sawmills. 



i 



CD 

 1— ■* 



a 

 So 



r-H y 



? Tt 



a 



CO 



logging railroads. 



Daily saw mill capacity . 



_... _ . -....- 



Dailj shingle-mill 

 capacity . 



United States. 



>> 

 f- 



d 



o 



a 

 ■*-> 



w 



© 



•+J 

 %* 



o 



6 



7 



20 



2 



7 



20 



Lowest. 



Highest. 



Low est. 



Highest 



Maine 



355 



270 



282 

 10 

 56 



349 



292 

 15S 



78 

 6 



22 

 129 



61 

 40 

 16 



o 



1 



Feet B. M. 

 4, 686, 000 

 2, 530, 000 

 1, 452, 000 

 48, 000 

 342, 000 

 2, 851, 000 



8, 730, 000 

 4, 720, 000 

 3, 095, 000 

 300,000 

 710, 000 

 5,325 000 



Number. 

 3, 208, 000 

 972, 000 

 390, 000 

 42, 000 

 114,000 

 716, 000 



Number. 



6, 275, 000 



1, 860, 000 



775, 000 



75, 000 



^15 000 



New ITampshiie 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



1 



10 



1 



Vermont 



1,515,000 





New England States 



X, Uwm 



62 



685 



"~255 



266 



11 



2 



5 



128 



5 



12, 909, 000 



22, 880, 000 



5,412,001) 



10, 715, 000 





New York 



738 



887 



73 



46 



39 



42 



96 



3 



4 



6 



44 

 39 



10 

 92 



6, 670, 000 



14, 597, 000 



174, 000 



252, 000 



470, 000 



12, 080, 000 



27,190,000 



540, 000 



535, 000 



900, 000 



2, 266, 000 



2, 814, 000 



36, 000 



12,000 



4, 535, 000 



5, 415, 000 



90, 000 



5 000 



Pennsylvania 





Delaware.:..::.:;:.;;;:;;.:;;;;:.;;;;:;:::.; 



5 



1 



2 



Maryland 



40, 000 





Middle Atlantic States 



1, lOt) 



151 



539 



89 



104 



22, 163, 000 



41, 845, 000 



5, 128, 000 



10, 085, 000 





a Shingles may ho averaged 5,000 to the 1,000 feet B. M. 



