January 25, 191" 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



I HEADQUARTERS FOR 



I CHESTNUT AND BIRCH 



I Geo. D. Griffith & Co. 



i WHOLESALE 



\ HARDWOODS 



I 805 Lumber Exchange Building 



I Sladison & La Salle Sts. 



I TELEPHONE RANDOLPH 2165 

 I Chicago, ni. 



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I SCffiNTIFICALLY KILN DRIED 

 Oak Birch Gum 



I Red Cedar Mahogany 



I D. W. Baird Lumber Co. | 



I 1026 to 1040 'West Twenty-second Street | 



I CHICAGO, HiIiINOIS I 



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I PREPAREDNESS | 



I for coming good times will make you | 



I SEND OS TOITR INQUIRIES FOB | 



I spe'ciaitiesOak, Gum, Cypress | 



I CLARENCE BOYLE, Inc. | 



I WHOLESALE LUMBER 



i LOMBER EXCHANGE BLDG. 



i Yards at rHirAriO Band Saw Mill • 



I Forest, Miss. ^»il»-,^V»JV-» wildsville. La. 



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I J. M. Attley & Company 



I Southern Hardwoods 



iCHICAGOi 



I History of the | 



I Largest Lumber Centre | 



in the | 



World I 



XII I 



BUTTER TUBS IN CHICAGO | 



Butter is usually associated with | 

 rural districts, in immediate associa- i 

 tion with the dairying business; it | 

 § will, therefore, be a surprise to many | 

 I to learn that Chicago factories turn | 

 I out immense numbers of butter tubs, | 

 I using 22,000,000 feet of lumber for | 

 I that purpose. It is doubtful if any j 

 1 other city in the country equals that | 

 i record. 1 



I The reason for this large business i 



i is not far to seek. Chicago is a i 

 i packing center with some of the s 

 1 largest packing houses in the § 

 I world. Enormous quantities of but- | 

 I ter are handled, and the handling | 

 I often includes renovating and re- § 

 I packing; whence comes the demand = 

 for tubs. Some packers make their i 

 own tubs and others procure theirs 

 by contract. ' | 



The list of woods employed in 1 

 this industry is not long, because i 

 many woods are not suitable. Some | 

 impart a taste or an odor w^hich is | 

 disagreeable; for butter and tobacco | 

 are tw^o commodities which most = 

 readily absorb impurities from their = 

 surroundings. Following is a list of i 

 woods employed by makers of but- | 

 ter tubs in Illinois. | 



-SPEOIALTIES- 



OAK, ASH, GUM. MAPLE I 



Thirty years In buslnesi 

 TRY US 



s 1209 Lumber Exchange, Chicago | 



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Kind of Feet Used 



Wood Annually. 



Ash 31.855,000 



Basswood 2,000.000 



Cypress 2,000,000 



Red gum 2,000.000 



White oak 1,090,000 



Elm 455.000 



Beech 180 000 



White pine 140,000 



Birch 110.000 



Maple 70.000 



Yellow poplar 50.000 



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 Kiln Dried | 



and Air Dried I 



Hardwoods | 



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Utley-HoUoway | 

 Company j 



General Offices, 111 W. Washington St. g 



Manufacturers H 



I Oak, Ash, G)ttoDwood, Elm, Gum | 

 I CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ■ 



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FRED W. UPHAM 



Total 39,950.000 | 



The important place held by ash f 

 in this industry is apparent. Most f 

 of it is w^hite ash, but mixed with it | 

 is some black and some green and | 

 possibly one or tw^o others. 1 



The white oak reported is nearly i 

 all used as bottoms for tubs. | 



Although the industry is classed % 

 as butter tubs, it includes the manu- 1 



JAMES C. WALSH 



Manager 



TELEPHONE CANAL 5772 



UPHAM & AGLER 



WHOLESALE 



Hardwood Lumber 



Throop Street | 



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facture of churns also, and these are 1 i 



of different oatterns from the sim- i'''''"''"""''''"!'"'''"'''''"'''''''""'"!"'''''''''"''"'''""''''''''''''"'''"''""'"''''''''''"''''''"^^ 

 pie, old-fashioned churn with a 1 1 



dasher to be w^orked up and dow^n 1 ~ 



by hand power, to the barrel and | 

 box churns that revolve upon pivots | 

 or have revolving mechanism | 

 within. I 



Fifteen per cent of the butter tub | 

 material comes from the Lake States; 1 

 four per cent from Indiana, Ohio i 

 and West Virginia, forty-five per i 

 cent from the South, and the re- f 

 mainder is not identified as to region. | 

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