Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
The ConsumptIon Of wood.

Many interesting items In regard to
the consumption of wood material in
this country have been gathered from
various sources and complied by the
chief of tho Forestry Division, which are
not only interesting as showing tho
enormous amount used in some OF tho
most important industries but also as OK
hibitirg in minor ones that are seldom
taken into account, q consumption greatly
in excess of the popular understanding
on the subject. Tho annual consump.
ton of wood in railroad building is
computed Mt 500, 900, 900 cubic feet One
copper mine in Butte City used last year
$4,000, 000 feet, board measure, for
| timbcring its works, and 600 cords of
wood dnily for the reduction and other
purposes
1t is estimated tina. one of tho largest
lake vessels requires the oak furnished
by about 200J first class trees, such rs
can hardly be found in our forests The
wooden pumps made annually consume
from 5000, 600 to 10000, 900 feet of
poplar lumber. The wood manufactures
of Chicago for 1887 are credited with n
product of $34, 500, 900 in value. The
manufacture Of doors, sashcs and blinds
Is calculated to need an annual supply Of
10, 900, 000 cubic feet of raw material.
The product Of looking glass and picture
frames a!ono is valued ut 81, 87l, 248.
Not less than 100, 900, 900 cubic feet
nre required for car building, and this
must be of excellent quality. Tho ma
tcrial for carriage and wagon building is
valued at over $50, 600, 600, and wood Of
special good quality is required. Furni-
turc factories nrc reported as using over
$3.50, 600, 900 worth of lumber, while the
wood in sewing machines alone is valued
ut $4,000 Seven million dollars'
worth of inferior lumber is used In
packing cases. while collins require
50, $50, 900 worth of the best.
One firm in Maine uses over 100, 900
cubic feet, mainly birch, for spools
other firms use largo quantities for the
Same purpose. One Pennsylvania fac
tory, not the largest, employs con
stantly twenty-five men and fourteen
teams to cut and haul maple logs for tho
manufacture of umbrella sticks selling Mt
So to SIS gross. Ono of tho stcadicst
industries is the manufacture of wash
boards. Butter plates, trays, wooden
bowls and clothes pins require largo
quantities of material. Even tho manu-
fncturc of the wooden shoe has found its
way into this country and buttcrnut
furnishes the desirable material.
The cooperagc interest uses about
eighteen and half million dollars
worth Of raw material, and tho shinglc
product of Michigan alone required in
1887 20, 600, 600 cubic feet of wood, and
that of the whole country probably four
times rs much. One New Hampshire
firm makes 40, 900 bushels of shoe pogs,
and 100, 900 cords of birch md maple arc
snid to be annually converted into this
shape. Toothpicks and skcwors require
largo amounts OF wood annually, and one
match factory. out of dozen or moro,
reports its nccd Of raw material at !, 00o,-
O0o feet of best white Pine. Three fuo
tories OF excelsior in Michigan, not to
mention others, consumed noarly 20, 600
cords of bnsswood In 1897. Altogether
tho numerous wood pulp factories con
wort from 800, 900 to 400, 900 cords Of
wood into pulp annually. Only por
ton Of the almost numborlcss uses for
which wood is required have been men
toned, but enough to set landowners to
considering the boat methods of forestry
and forest preservation for supplying tho
wants Of tho future. -New York World.