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Output of Boxes by States 



SOME STATES produce many more boxes than their 

 people use, other states must import boxes to supple- 

 ment their own factories. Usually the regions which 

 have many factories and little timber, must bring boxes 

 from elsewhere. Illinois is a typical example of a region of 

 that kind. Its packers and manufacturers require nearly 

 400,000,000 feet of box lumber a year and not one-tenth 

 of it comes from timber grown in the state. Consequently, 

 Illinois is an excellent market for the box material produced 

 in the region of which Memphis is the commercial metrop- 

 olis. The distance is not great and the freight rates are 

 reasonable. 



The box makers of Illinois use little short of I 00,000,000 

 feet of gum and cottonwood yearly, and nearly all of it 

 comes from the district tributary to Memphis. Other kinds 

 of box lumber find their way into Illinois from that region. 

 But the shipment of rough lumber to distant box factories 

 is not all that takes place. Vast quantities of shocks, ready 

 to nail together, are made by mills near where the timber 

 grows, and these are sent to the markets that demand them. 



Illinois is cited only as an example of a market that buys 

 heavily from the outside. The following table quotes sta- 

 tistics of box and shook manufacture in certain states tribu- 

 tary to Memphis, either in the capacity of producers or con- 

 sumers of box lumber. The figures give the annual shook 

 production in board feet, rough lumber: 



Feet 



ILLINOIS 372.000,000 



OHIO 153,417,000 



MISSOURI 11 1,664,000 



ARKANSAS 105,552,000 



INDIANA 85,653,000 



KENTUCKY 56,687.000 



MISSISSIPPI 39,295,000 



TEXAS 35,700,000 



ALABAMA 22,400,000 



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