In Hardwood Record of February 10 was published a table 

 from a pamphlet entitled ' ' The Wood-Using Industries of Illinois, ' ' 

 issued under the direction of the Department of Horticulture of 

 the University of Illinois, and of the Wood Utilization department 

 of the United States Forest Service. This table showed the con- 

 sumption of woods by remanufacturing institutions in the entire 

 state of Illinois, and in the city of Chicago. 



In eoiinection herewith is published another table from the 

 same work, indicating the quantity of lumber manufactured in 

 the several wook-working industries throughout the state, with 

 figures indicating the sources of supply of the various woods 

 fmployed. The facts presented in this table are almost as inter- 

 esting as the one originally published, and should be of inestima- 

 ble value to sales managers in analyzing the distribution of their 

 lumber jiroducts. 



These classifications emphasize clearly the channels into which 

 wood is converted in its final form. Concerns making simOar 

 or closely related products are grouped together. A growing tend- 

 ency toward specialization subdivides the industries into corre- 

 lative groups. When several concerns specialize in the production 



of a commodity or similar commodities", their specialty is termed 

 an industry. For example, twenty-two manufacturers make pic- 

 ture mouldings only; packing boxes, cigar boxes and trunks are 

 clussified separately, instead of under one general heading. 



Both tables are well worth a careful study by lumber salesmen 

 as the vast quantity of lumber consumed in sundry specialized in- 

 dustries in the state is larger than the average lumberman would 

 have believed possible. Such lumber manufacturers and jobbers 

 as have stock to supply these specific needs can therefore assist 

 their business materially by a closer study of specific requirements 

 in these several lines, and thus develop closer commercial rela- 

 tions with these manufacturers. 



It will be noted that what is ordinarilj' known as the furniture 

 industry has been separated into groups, involving case goods, 

 chairs, tables, couch frames, parlor furniture frames, etc. It will 

 be found that when these various items of consumption are put 

 into one footing, it demonstrates beyond peradventure the claim 

 often hitherto advanced that Chicago is the largest furniture pro- 

 ducing center in the world^and not only the largest, but several 

 times the largest. 



*Lees than . 1. 



SUMMARY OF WOOD USED IN ILLINOIS BY INDUSTRIES. 



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