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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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THE WONDER CITY Of HAPDWOilKpDUCTiONl 



Box Lumber Supplies from Memphis District 



IT is generally understood that the lumber required by the 

 manufacturers of shipping boxes and other containers, in- 

 cluding crates, is not of the highest class. It is what re- 

 mains after the best grades have been culled out for other 

 uses. But this does not lessen the importance of box lumber. 

 It fills a place which could not be filled much better by the 

 highest grades, which would generally cost two or three times 

 as much. 



The Memphis district, which includes the surrounding states 

 which find Memphis a market center from which to make 

 sales, is highly important as a source of supply for box mate- 

 rial, both as lumber and as veneer. It is not practicable to 

 determine from available data just how much of such material 

 is made into boxes Vkfithin the Memphis district or shipped to 

 surrounding regions to be so manufactured ; but the quantity 

 exceeds one billion feet a year. That is approximately one- 

 fourth of all the boxes made in the United States. 



Memphis is favorably situated as a source for this enormous 

 supply of box lumber. It is within reach of the large vegetable 

 and small fruit districts of the South, and likewise within ship- 

 ping distance of the fruit and truck orchards and gardens of 

 the entire Ohio valley. In addition to that, the manufacturing 

 cities as far away as Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Indian- 

 apolis, Cincinnati, and even Pittsburgh, are within reach and 

 draw some of their box material from the Memphis region. 



Excellent railroad and river shipping facilities make this 

 wide distribution possible. The large shippers of lumber, 

 acting through their boards of trade and other associations, 

 watch shipping tariffs carefully and see to it that rates are ad- 

 justed in the most favorable way. This policy has borne re- 

 sults which are apparent in the figures which show a billion 

 feet of Memphis box lumber going into use annually, and 

 some of it in keen competition with box lumber from other 

 producing regions. 



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