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Boxes, Crates and Cooperage. 



The 48 million feet used annually in making boxes, crates 

 and barrels, as given below, may be far from the correct figure 

 as a large number of establishments that manufacture these ar- 

 ticles were not heard from and the estimate based on the reports 

 received is approximate. Great care must necessarily be exercised 

 in making a complete study under this head for the reason that 

 some companies complete the manufacture of articles from the 

 log to the finished product, some manufacture only the shooks 

 which are sold to users within or outside the State, and others — 

 as in the case of a number of glass factories — buy the shooks from 

 various sources and complete the manufacture. Fourteen spe- 

 cies are reported, and probably nearly as many more are used to 

 some extent. 



Table No. 7. — Kinds, Quantity and Price of Lumber Used in 

 the Manufacture of Boxes, Crates and Cooperage. 



Kind of Wood. 



Approximate Number of 

 feet B. M. manufactured 

 annually. 



Approximate average 

 price per 1000 ft. B. 

 M. at factory. 



Yellow pine 



7,000,000 



$16.00 



Oak 



3,500,000 



11.00 



Poplar 



4,300,000 



19.00 



Hemlock 



5,400,000 



12.00 



Spruce 



6,000,000 





Chestnut 



5,500,000 



13.00 



White elm 



3,700,000 





Beech 



2,800,000 





Basswood 



2,300,000 





Birch 



2,100,000 





Maple 



2,000,000 





White pine 



1,900,000 



18.00 



Scrub pine 



90,000 







48,290,000 





Miscellaneous. 



Under the head of miscellaneous are included a number of 

 wood-working industries which, in a more thorough study, might 

 be classified into several groups according to the similarity of 

 their manufactured products. The table below shows that over 

 17 million feet of lumber is used in the manufacture of the wood 

 en articles named. 



