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lar was State-grown is somewhat surprising. In no other industry of this 

 report does wood, State-grown, e;ual so large a per cent, of the total. 

 Nearly six and a half million feet was required and of this over 85 per cent, 

 is cut in Pennsylvania. 



Table 66. — Wood for Toys, year ending June, 1912. 





Quantity. 



OOO ft. 



actory. 



Grown in 

 Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Grown Out 

 of Penn- 

 sylvania. 









r-T 

















.a 







Kind of Wood. 







Average cost p< 

 at factory. 



6 









Feet b. m. 



Per cent. 



Total cost f 



Feet b. m. 



Feet b. m. 



Basswood, 



Sugar maple 



White pine, 



Yellow^ poplar, 



Beech, 



Birch 



Chestnut, 



Red and silver maple, 



Ash, 



White oak, 



Red oak, 



White elm, 



Cotton gum, 



Red gum, 



Spruce, 



Total 



1,404,000 

 762,500 

 725,000 

 70i2,0O0 

 627,400 



21.86 

 11.87 

 11.29 

 10.93 

 9.77 



$40 80 

 25 31 



24 90 



25 48 

 18 41 



$57,286 

 19,300 

 18,050 

 17,888 

 11,553 



560,000 

 712,500 

 487,500 

 659,500 

 585,000 



844,000 

 50,000 

 237,500 



42,500 

 42,400 



617,000 

 500,000 

 450,000 

 320,000 

 152,000 



9.61 

 7.79 

 7.01 

 4,98 

 2.37 



23 84 

 21 00 



24 00 

 43 03 

 29 26 



14,708 

 10,500 

 10,800 

 13,450 

 4,448 



617,000 

 500,000 

 4501,000 

 182,500 

 132,000 



137,500 

 20,000 



125,300 

 25,000 

 5,000 

 5,000 

 1,300 



1.95 

 .39 

 .08 

 .08 

 .02 



27 17 

 21 00 

 20 00 

 25 00 

 43 00 



3,404 

 525 

 100 

 125 

 56 



100,800 

 12,500 



5,000 



24,500 

 12,500 

 5,000 



1,300 



6,421,500 



lOO.OO 



$28 37 



$182,193 



5,004,300 



1,417,200 



TRUNKS AND VALISES. 



Nine woods make up the four million feet of lumber required yearly 

 in Pennsylvania for making trunks. A number of manufacturers do all 

 the work from the arrival of the rough lumber to the covering, lining, and 

 varnishing of the finished commodity, but others make only the rough 

 boxes in the white, others slats, and others purchase the different parts 

 already manufactured and merely put them together and .finish them. The 

 last named class of manufacturers did not make reports for this study be- 

 cause they do not operate wood-working machinery and are merely as- 

 semblers. The fact that white elm leads in quantity all other woods listed 

 in the table indicates that in Pennsylvania the slat makers form the most 

 important division of this industry. The quantity demanded, though fairly 

 large, does not equal the amount of ash, which, next to elm, is generally 

 the principal slat wood. Hickory is a frequently used slat wood on sample 

 cases because of its strength but none of the trunk makers reported its use 

 in Pennsylvania; its weight and its high price being against it. 



Basswood is the favorite wood for trunk boxes and in Pennsylvania fur- 

 nished about three-quarters of the material which the manufacturers used. 

 It works easily and holds its shape. The fact that it is fairly strong for its 

 weight qualifies it more than any other factor for this use. Cottonwood 

 is its principal comoetitor and in the country at large is used in larger 

 ruantities. Like basswood it enters largely into veneer and then into built- 

 up lumber from which the better grades of trunk boxes are largely made. 

 Three and four-ply are the thicknesses principally used. Besides being of 



