IMPORTANCE OF FORESTRY TO WOOD- 

 WORKING INDUSTRIES 



BY 

 M. C. MOORE 



Editor of Packaget 



I COME before you as a delegate, representing the 

 National Slack Cooperage Manufacturers' Associ- 

 ation and the Beer Stock Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States, both of which organizations 

 represent vast capital invested and an enormous con- 

 sumption yearly of the best hardwood timber. I am 

 also in close connection with the Tight Barrel Stave 

 Manufacturers' Association, the National Box and 

 Box Shook Manufacturers' Association, the Western 

 Cigar Box Manufacturers' Association, the Eastern 

 Cigar Box Manufacturers' Association, as well as other 

 associations having to do with the manufacture of 

 package material. 



Curiously enough, statistics are not in existence 

 showing the immensity of the manufacture of wood 

 in the various lines named. This is a source of great 

 regret to me. Only by these figures could I hope to 

 convey to those here in attendance any idea of the 

 great amount of work turned out in all the various 

 lines of wooden package making and the tremendous 

 consumption of timber which is entailed in producing 

 this finished work. 



White pine, yellow pine, poplar, basswood, gum, 

 spruce, hemlock, and many other woods in lesser 

 quantity, enter into the manufacture of boxes, and this 

 industry, while not much heard from in a general way, 

 is one of steadily increasing magnitude and importance. 



