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Table 53. — Wood for Ship and Boat Building, year ending June, 1912. 



Kind of Wood. 



Quantity. 



Grown in 

 Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Grown Out 

 of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



T.ons'leaf pine 



Wliite pine, 



Hemlock, 



White oak, 



Douglas fir 



Red oak, 



Southern white cedar, 



Spruce, 



Shortleaf pine, 



Ash, 



Cypress (bald), 



Bass wood, 



Yellow poplar, 



Teak 



Mahogany, 



Hickory, 



Sycamore 



Redwood 



Tamarack, 



Sj anish cedar 



Butternut 



Sugar maple 



Chestnut, 



Black gum, 



Beech, 



Sassafras, 



Total 



r non Ann 



0, Zoo, UuO 



19. iv 



$31 56 



$198, oZO 



4,044, DOU 



17.01 



46 85 





4,343,000 



16.26 



25 92 



112,551 



3,871,400 



14.49 



34 73 



134,436 



2.521,000 



9.44 



42 41 



10'6,926 



2,434,000 



9.11 



35 24 



85,770 



1,081,000 



4.05 



56 40 



60, 970 



1,013,000 



3.79 



31 0'6 



31,464 



480,800 



1.80 



28 74 



13,820 



388,700 



1.45 



41 47 



16,118 



287,000 



1.07 



55 64 



15,970 



150,000 



.56 



16 00 



2,400 



84,000 



.31 



58 07 



4,878 



64,000 



.24 



190' 66 



12,202 



57,000 



.21 



164 39 



9,370 



28,000 



.10 



65 00 



1,820 



20,000 



.08 



65 CO 



1,300 



20,000 



.08 



52 30 



1,046 



10,300 



.04 



45 73 



471 



10,000 



.04 



250 00 



2,500 



10,000 



.04 



80 00 



800 



3,500 



.01 



29 14 



102 



3,100 



.01 



27 10 



84 



3,000 



.01 



70 OO 



210 



2,500 



.01 



26 00 



65 



50 





25 00 



1 



26,716,000 



lOO.OO 



.$38 44 



$1,026,722 



2,733,150 

 4,217,000- 



2,230,900 



1,180,000 

 ■"266,' 000 

 ""262"700 



150,000 

 2,500 



300 



7,000 

 2,500 

 3.100 



1,500 

 50 



11,017,200 



5,286,000 

 1,811,500 

 126,000 

 1,640,500 

 2,521,000 



1,254,000 

 1,081,000 

 813,000 

 480,800 

 126,000 



287,000 



""si,m 



64,000 

 57,000 



1,500 

 20,000 

 20,000 

 10,000 

 10,000 



3,000 

 1,000 



3,606 



1,000 



15,698, 



"Less than l-lOO of 1 per cent. 



CASKETS AND COFFINS. 

 This industry includes, in addition to caskets and cofRns, outer or rough 

 boxes and shipping cases. Caskets are the burial cases more universally used. 

 CofRns, at one. time in greater demand, are now but relatively seldom em- 

 ployed. They are irregular in form, widest at the part corresponding to the 

 shoulders, narrowing slightly towards the head, and considerably at the feet. 

 The statistics for Pennsylvania show not over 5 per cent, of the wood de- 

 manded by the manufacturers was for cofRns. More than this amount is used, 

 however, since many cofRns are handmade. They are manufactured by cabi- 

 netmakers who cater for local trade in all small towns throughout the State. 

 The quantity of wood used by one is small, but for a thickly populated state 

 like Pennsylvania the aggregate consumption would amount to considerable, 

 although it was found impracticable to collect statistics so widely scattered. 

 Black walnut for many years has been the principal cofRn wood and it is 

 still called on for the better grades. Cheap cofRns are of woods that are soft, 

 easily worked , and at the same time adaptable to stain and polish. Yellow pop- 

 lar is more used than any other kind for both factory and hand made cofRns. 

 in the southern states cypress is the leading cofRn material, on the Pacific 

 coast western red cedar, and in the Lake states basswood. 



