CHAPTER IX 



WOOD MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. 



Eeports obtained from about one-half of the wood-working 

 establishments in "West Virginia furnish the only data available 

 at present for the general information herein given; and inas- 

 much as many of the reports were incomplete and for the reason 

 that some of the largest concerns in the State could not be heard 

 from nor visited, the estimates given will be valuable chiefly in 

 showing the approximate extent of the several departments of 

 this industry and in paving the way, in some degree, for a more 

 careful future study. The average prices of the various kinds 

 of lumber given cannot be relied on in many cases as this item 

 was generally omitted by the reporting firms. The percentages 

 of the different kinds of wood produced within and without the 

 State must be omitted entirely for want of accurate information. 

 It can safely be stated, however, that at least 75 per cent of all 

 manufactured woods come from the forests of West Virginia. 



The quantity of rough lumber converted into finished pro- 

 ducts by the West Virginia wood-working mills each year is 

 probably not far from 330 million feet, board measure. The 28 

 kinds of wood named in the following table, with the approxi- 

 mate quantity nianufactured of each, include all that w&re re- 

 ported, though many others doubtless should have been included. 

 It was not possible to separate the different species of oaks, 

 maples, birches, ashes, and hickories, and under the head of 

 yellow pine are included at least two other nearly related species 

 of pines which grow in the states farther south. 



