Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-07-11

siderable period and was carried cut
state by state; but as enc full year
was made the basis of statistics in
each state, the total is fair average
of the use of lumber i'm further manu-
facture in the whole country. Be
tween so and 60 per cent of the lum-
Der produced is subject to further
manufacture. In preparing the fig
ures in this way, however, it should be
remembered that considerable mate
tcrial reaches shops and factories in
the form of logs, bolts, and billets
without having passed through saw
mills, ard while this material is in
cluded i'm these statistics, this fact
should be remembered in comparing
statistics with those of lumber pro-
duction.
Nearly or quite 100 different woods
are used in this country under their
own names, while an unknown number
find their way to shops and factories
without being identified or separately
listed except under general names. In
quantity the softwoods, the needle
leaf or coniferous trees, are most in-
portant, but there is greater number
of species among the hardwoods or
DfOauledl trees. ItilOW plllC
first with more than billion feet, fol-
lowed bv white pine with 3 billion and
Douglas fir with a little more than z
billion. 1t should be understood, how
ever, that the term yellow pine" in
cludes several species, the three most
important of which are longleaf,
shortleaf and loblolly. Oak, including
all species, has nearly 2 billion feet,
and is the most important hardwood.
Maple comes next.
Dogwood comes about halfway
down the list with more than Z mil
lion board feet, and of those species
mentioned Turkish lockwood comes
last, with less than 80 thousand feet,
followed by many others too insignifi-
cant to list, but making a total of all
kinds Of more than a million feet.
Of the native species, laurel, holly
and yucca fall very near the foot of
the list in relative quantities used.
Fifty-fve principal industries use
wood as raw material. Their rela-
tive Importance is hard to indicate,
because quantity alone is not in all
cases a criterion of value, of an in
dustry to the community in which it
is situated, nor to the country as a
whole.
More than one-half of the total con-
sumption consists of planning mill pro-
ducts, the largest items of which are
flooring, siding, ceiling, and finishing.
The next industry, in point of guam
tity of wood used, is the manufacture
of boxes and crates. Nearly four
times as much wood is demanded by
makers of boxes and crates as by the
builders of steam and electric cars,
which come next, and five fold the
amount that goes into furniture,
which in turn leads vehicle manufac-
ture. Vehicles demand surprisingly
large supplies of wood and much of it
must be of a high class in order TO
meet requirements for frames, gears,
bodies.
Chairs, listed separately from fur
niture, come after novelties and sup
plies for dairymen, poultry keepers,
and apiarists, and just before ham
dies, and musical instruments. About
midway down the list come pumps
and wood pipes. Among the products
important enough to list separately
are canes and umbrella sticks,
brooms, firearms, artificial limbs and
tobacco pipes.
The apportionment of wood among
the various industries, grades from
planning mill products, which take
most, down TO aeroplanes and dry
kilns, at the bottom of the list.