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The great general lumber markets of the United States are 

 simply distributing points into which the mill men ship their 

 lumber and from which the wood users purchase. This means 

 that they are located at the termini of water routes and the sup- 

 ply points for manufacturing and agricultural centers. Every 

 dty of any size answers one or both of these qualifications in some 

 measure but the following are preeminent as lumber markets: 



Boston — the commercial center of New England. 



New York — a great supply point for all sorts of native 



lumber and also the largest importer of tropical hardwoods. 

 Baltimore — hf reason of its advantageous tidewater loca- 

 tion an important distributing point for pine from the 



south Atlantic states. 

 Norfolk — a good harbor makes this dty the natural export 



center for Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina. 

 Buffalo and North Tonawanda — at the eastern end of the 



Great Lakes and hence the natural eastern market place 



for lumber from the Great Lakes region and the upper 



Mississippi valley. 

 Chicago — the distributing point for the north central 



states. 

 Minnesota Transfer — the transfer point for western lumber 



coming east. esp>ecially that from the northwest. 

 Cindnnati — an important distributing center for southern 



hardwoods. 

 St. Louis — important in the southern pine and hardwood 



trade because of its location on the Mississippi River. 

 New Orleans — used both as a market for southern pine and 



cypress from Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana and an 



exporting port. 

 San Francisco — the export center for redwood and sugar 



pine. 

 Portland, Oregon — a red cedar shingle center and shipping 



point for northwestern limiber in general. 

 Seattle — the principal port of export to the Far East of 



Douglas fir lumber and red cedar shingles. 



