car construction, boxes, millwork, and shipbuilding. The hardwoods go- 

 ing into remanufactures are used almost entirely for furniture and fixtures. 



Box factories are the most important of the wood-using industries, 

 accounting for about two-thirds of the total lumber remanufactured . Box 

 shook consumption also tends to be somewhat more stable than most other 

 lumber uses because of the use of shook for fruit shipments from Califor- 

 nia to both state and national markets. Planing mills, which remanufac- 

 ture lumber into sash, doors, and millwork, also constitute an important 

 industry which accounted for about 12 percent of the 1933 remanufactures 

 and for nearly a third of the 1928 remanufactures . The decline in build- 

 ing activity accompanying the depression, however, caused a considerable 

 docron.se in the production of planing-mill products, the output in 1933 

 amounting to only 20 percent of that in 1928. 



Among the smaller remanufacturing industries, which account for 

 about 14 percent of the lumber remanufactured, are those making use of 

 lumber for car construction, furniture, fixtures, shipbuilding, coffins, 

 and a considerable number of miscellaneous factory products. Lumber used 

 in 1933 by these smaller industries amounted to about half the quantity 

 remanufactured in 1928. As in the case of box shook and millwork, most 

 of the miscellaneous remanufactures are marketed within California. 



Bknployment in the secondary wood-using industries is of considerable 

 importance to the State, the number of workers omployed approximating that 

 of the primary lumbering industries. Thus in 1929 the secondary industries 

 employed 25,000 workers, while the sawmills omployed about 23,500 workers. 

 Wages and salaries amounted to about 44 million dollars in 1929, compared 

 to 37 million dollars paid by the lumber industry in the same year. The 

 secondary industries employed about 7 percent of all industrial workers 

 in California in 1929, paid out more than 6 percent of industrial wages 

 and salaries, and accounted for about 5 percent of the total value added 

 by all manufacturing in the State. 



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