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Table 50. — Wood for Furniture, year ending June, 1912. 



Kind of Wood. 



Quantity. 



6 ^ 

 be °t 

 t- at 



Grown in 

 Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Red oak , 



Chestnut 



White oak, 



Sugar maple , 



Bass wood, 



Yellow poplar, 



Red gum, 



Red and silver maple 



Beech 



Mahogany, 



Birch 



Cottonwood, 



White pine 



Cotton gum, 



Red cedar, 



Ash 



Shortleaf pine 



Longleaf pine, 



Black walnut 



Cherry (black), 



Circassian walnut, 



Cypress (bald) 



Sycamore, 



TiOblolly pine 



Western yellow pine, 



Rosewood 



Eucalyptus 



Butternut 



Spanish cedar 



Southern white cedar, 



Mountain laurel 



Hickory, 



Sumach 



Teak 



Satin wood 



Total 



♦Less than l-lOO of 1 per cent. 



16,091,700 



27.28 



$35 73 



11,556,850 



19.59 



19 52 



1 ft 1 9<l <V\l\ 



17.18 



47 30 



4,743,900 



8!04 



26 72 



3,945,400 



6.69 



35 13 



2,892,000 



4.90 



36 86 



2,297,000 



3.89 



34 25 



1 478 '{(in 

 X, Tti o, OvU 



2.51 



25 49 



1,453,000 



2!46 



16 23 



1,145,650 



1.94 



116 42 



1,138,270 



1.93 



29 10 



380,000 



.64 



34 87 



298,700 



.51 



44 32 



236, 500 



!40 



33 54 



178,100 



.30 



60 81 



175,500 



.30 



28 43 



141,000 



.24 



23 92 



138,500 



.23 



31 83 



130,100 



.22 



95 04 



113,900 



.19 



34 74 



92,840 



.16 



364 08 



80,500 



.14 



43 19 



66,170 



.11 



43 89 



58,000 



.10 



22 79 



10,000 



.02 



45 00 



5,180 



.01 



500 00 



5,0CO 



.01 



260 OO 



3,500 



.01 



26 61 



2,500 



* 



80 00 



1,300 



♦ 



120 OO 



1,000 





40 00 



750 



* 



81 33 



500 



* 



80 00 



190 





200 00 



120 





200 OO 



58,995,170 



lOO.OO 



$35 24 



$574,997 

 225,599 

 479,283 

 126,632 

 138,592 



106,593 

 78,666 

 37,682 

 23,582 



133,378 



33,126 

 13,250 

 13,239 

 7,933 

 10,830 



4.989 

 3,374 

 4,408 

 12.365 

 3,957 



33.801 

 3,477 

 2,904 

 1,322 

 450 



2,590 

 1,300 

 93 

 200 

 156 



40 

 61 

 40 



$2,078,971 



2,443,600 

 5,586,300 

 2,771,050 

 3,640,100 

 1,105,400 



346,700 



'730,' 500 

 1,397,000 



525,900 

 '281! 500 



82,500 



21,000 

 105.600 



3,000 



1,000 



250 

 500 



19.045.400 



CHAIRS. 



Pennsylvania is one of the three leading states in the manufacture of chairs. 

 Over 30,000,000 feet of wood is annually required for their manufacture and 

 of this amount considerably over half is furnished by the forests of the State. 

 The order of the first six states in quantity of wood consumed for chairs is 

 as follows: Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New 

 l:ork, and Vermont. It may occur to some that chairs should be grouped with 

 furniture but in Pennsylvania as in other states their manufacture is essen- 

 tially a distinct industry, generally the form of the raw material is different, 

 the processes of manufacture are in nowise similar, and the products are 

 marketed separately. 



Dimension stock is the form of raw material that is utilized in the chair 

 industry perhaps to a greater extent than any other. Sawmills cutting hard- 

 woods and factories using them, principally beech, birch, and maple, often 

 operate as a side line the bolting of low grades and waste into these squares. 



