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' Hardwoods are red maple, gray birch, chestnut, red oak and poplar. 

 ' Mostly pitch pine. 



SOUTHBEIDGE. 



The largest individual type is the gray birch and red maple, 

 either mixed or in pure stands. Commercially speaking, both 

 pine and chestnut are of about equal importance, but there is 

 comparatively little growth of merchantable size in either type. 

 There is an unusual amount of hickory in the town, although 

 most of it is of small size. Considerable amounts of native 

 lumber are used in town for the manufacture of boxes and sash 

 and doors. The following concerns are interested in the lumber 

 business in Southbridge : — 



Clemence Associates, boxes, sash, blinds and building lumber. 

 Ide Lumber Company, building lumber, sash and doors. 

 Charles Hyde, boxes. 

 Charles M. Morse, operator, principally chestnut ties and poles. 



