North Carolina especially is taking rank in the manufacture of furniture, most of it cheap but some of it of high grade.

So far, ambition has in few cases gone beyond utilization of the native woods, some of which are surprisingly beautiful.

Many small establishments in different States make such special products as spokes, shuttle blocks, pails, broom handles, containers for fruits and vegetables, and the like, but the total value of these products is small compared with the value of the crude lumber which is sent out of the South.
The iron industry is important chiefly in Alabama, of the purely Southern States.

This State is fourth in the product of its blast furnaces but supplied in 1914 only a little more than six per cent of the total for the United States.

Virginia, Tennessee, and West Virginia produce appreciable quantities of pig iron; no Southern State plays a really important part in the steel industry, though Maryland, Alabama, and West Virginia are all represented.