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HARDWOOD RECORD 



TKNXESSEE TRUST SKYSCItAI'ER — I.AIiOErA' INHABITED BY 

 LIMBEEMEX 



greatness of Memphis as a lumber market and Us claim to being the 

 ' ' hub of the hardwood ' world. ' ' 



Outside of the thirty odd hardwood sawmills located in Memphis 

 tliere are five box factories, two column factories, one coffin factory, 

 two car shops, two wagon and carriage plants, four dimension stock 

 factories, three furniture factories, nine handle, spoke and hardwood 

 specialty factories, one hardwood flooring factory, one screen door 

 and washboard factory, thirteen planing mills, three slack cooperage 

 plants, four tight cooperage factories, five veneer mills, twenty retail 

 lumber yards, thirty-one lumber yards without sawmills, and fully 

 as many more wholesale lumber houses grouping stocks outside of the 

 city. In all, it is claimed there are one hundred and fifty-five houses 

 in Memphis engaged in some phase of the lumber industry. 



The distribution of the products of the sawmills of Memphis and 



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vicinity is world-wide. More hardwood lumber going into export 

 originates in Memphis than in any other point in the United States. 

 The great furniture manufacturing centers— Chicago, Grand Rapids, 

 Kockford, Jamestown, N. Y., Boston, Sheboygan, Detroit, St. Louis, 

 Minneapolis, Williamsport, and even High Point, N. C. — depend 

 largely for their supplies on Memphis mills and dealers. 



Almost without exception these cities are remote from districts 

 containing sufficient timber of the excellent quality demanded in 

 current furniture production, and they depend on Memphis for a 

 large portion of the oak, gum and other woods they use. Tn Mem- 

 phis itself is made a considerable quantity of medium and low-grade 

 furniture, and it is thought by some that the city might logically 

 become the furniture manufacturing center of the country. 



This does not seem to be a well-founded probability, as there are 



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