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Office Fixtures 



Fixture manufacturers must have good raw material to convert 

 into finished products. Take the industry in Illinois as an ex- 

 ample. Thirty kinds of wood are used and the most of it is of 

 expensive sorts. White oak leads all in quantity and total cost, 

 with red oak following closely. These woods are used chiefly 

 as outside material, such as tops and panels of counters, pilasters, 

 columns, cabinet doors, railing and heavy carvings. The Illinois 

 fixture manufacturers procure 7 I per cent of their white oak and 

 83 per cent of their red oak in the Memphis region. The per- 

 centage of their yellow poplar from the same region is quite high, 

 though yellow poplar's commercial range lies largely east and 

 northeast of Memphis. Perhaps it is collected by Memphis deal-, 

 ers who sell it to Chicago fixture manufacturers. Practically all 

 of the red gum reaching the Illinois makers of fixtures comes from 

 the Memphis region. 



The manufacturers of fixtures in Illinois, which state produces 

 more fixtures than any other, use 2 1 ,000,000 feet of wood yearly, 

 and pay an average of more than $40 a thousand for it. The 

 average price of white oak is $48 and of red oak $46. The extent 

 and requirements of the industry in Illinois are cited only because 

 they provide a convenient basis for studying the needs of the 

 fixture industry in general, particularly in regard to the kinds of 

 wood needed. 



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