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northern parts of the Ohio valley states it comes in competition 

 with lumber from the Lake States, and further east one of its 

 chief competitors is the southern pine from the Atlantic Coast. 

 In the upper Mississippi valley states and in the plains states west 

 of the Mississippi the Memphis box material comes in contact 

 with pine and fir from the Rocky Mountain region and even from 

 the Pacific coast. These wide limits are set by natural barriers 

 and transportation reasons, but Memphis holds about one-fourth 

 of the box lumber business of the whole country, and that means 

 a great deal to the power and prosperity of the region. 



About 350,000,000 feet of the box lumber manufactured in 

 the Memphis district, or shipped to other regions to be manu- 

 factured, is gum and cottonwood. These are generally consid- 

 ered the best available hardwoods for shipping boxes of the 

 ordinary kind. That explains their wide market and the general 

 demand for them. These woods may be procured, to some ex- 

 tent, from other parts of the country; but the greatest supply and 

 the highest grades are produced in the district commercially 

 tributary to Memphis. 



It should not be supposed, however, that box factories take 



the best grades of cottonwood and gum any more than they take 



the best grades of other woods. Those who want the highest 



grades need fear no active competition from box manufacturers. 



Both of these woods are strong and tough, hold nails well, resist 



tendency to break or split, show printing and stenciling well, 



and have no odor or taste that is objectionable to the shippers 



of food products. 



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