August 10. 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 











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MPHE]»IDER; CIT Y or H ARD WOG^RODUCTIOM 



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Lumber for Planing Mill Products 



IT means something to the lumbermen of the Memphis district 

 that the people of the United States consume more than 

 1 3,000,000,000 feet of lumber k year in the form of planing 

 mill products, chiefly flooring, ceiling, siding, and interior and 

 exterior finish. 



A large part of this comes out of the region tributary to 

 Memphis. The leading southern hardwoods supplying this 

 industry are oak and gum, but there are several other impor- 

 tant woods, one of w^hich is ash, cottonw^ood is another, tupelo 

 a third. The states which look to Memphis for stock to sup- 

 ply their planing mills, constitute the cream of the American 

 hardwood market. Among them are Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, 

 Kentucky, Missouri, and Iowa; but these are only the center of 

 the consuming area, and its circumference includes the whole 

 United States and overlaps on foreign lands. 



Memphis does not owe its importance as a hardwood 

 center to any artificial circumstances. One-half of the com- 

 mercial oak timber in the United States is growing in the seven 

 states surrounding that city, and more than two-thirds of the 

 gum, and a large percentage of several other important hard- 

 woods. The figures which show these resources somewhat in 

 detail are interesting. They are based on estimates published 

 by the Bureau of Corporations. Data on the two leading hard- 

 woods will suffice, the figures representing feet, board measure, 

 of timber still on the stump: 



Stale Oak 



ARKANSAS 26,765,000,000 



TENNESSEE 25.55fl.0«O,0O0 



KENTUCKY 22,500,000,000 



LOUISIANA 10.920,000,000 



MISSISSIPPI 10,023,000,0fl« 



ALABAMA 8.145,000,000 



MISSOURI 3,818,000,000 



107,671,000.000 



Gum 

 11,615.000,000 

 3,973,000,000 



9,100,000,000 

 7.750,000,000 

 2,172,000,000 

 2,212,000,000 



36.822,000,000 



The significance of these figures, so far as Memphis is concerned, 

 appears when it is remembered that the total stand of all oaks in the 

 United States is only 200,000,000,000 feet, and of all gum only 53,- 

 000,000.000 feet. The ancient peoples went to Egypt for corn in times 

 of scarcity, and modern people will look toward Memphis for supplies 

 of oak and gum. The land of plenty attracts business. 



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