Wood-Using Industries of Ohio (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Carroll W. Dunning
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265266779
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Excerpt from Wood-Using Industries of Ohio With her many rail and water transportation facilities, and wub her vast resources of soil, forests, coal, oil, gas, iron, stone and clay, Ohio stands high as a manufacturing State. In 1910 the value added to the raw material by the varied manufactures of the State amounted to considerably more than For the same period the Bureau of the Census report shows that the sale of farm products reached a value of and that the minerals produced, exclusive of clay products, an estimated value of $159, 000, 000. Manufacturing, therefore, is preeminently Ohio's leading industry. The present report deals with a single class of factories, those manufacturing commodities from wood. They form one of the most important divisions of Ohio's enterprises, and nearly every State in the Union as well as many foreign countries send some portion of their forest material to Ohio for utilization in manu facture. The commodities turned out by these wood-using factories, together with the value of the rough forest products like lumber, shingles, cross-ties, etc., in 1909, amounted to nearly Compared with the value of farm products and the mineral resources, the part the forests and their related industries are taking in the commercial development of Ohio is thus clearly indicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.