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cannot now be considered inaccessible. Most of 
the Peninsula lies within a 400-mile radius of 
Chicago or Detroit and, with the excellent system 
of railroads and highways which have been de- 
veloped, all principal points are within a 12- to 
15-hour run by car or train. The average freight 
rate on lumber from Iron Mountain to Chicago is 
only $3.40 per M board feet as compared with 
Ficure 3.—Location of sawmills in the Upper Peninsula: A, Mills cutting 1 million board feet or more annually; B, mills cutting 
less than 1 million board feet. 
$7.60 from Louisiana and $14.40 from Washing- 
ton and Oregon. 
With this increase in accessibility of the virgin 
timber, the exhaustion of timber supplies in lower 
Michigan and Wisconsin has forced lumber dealers 
and wood-using industries to look more and more 
to the Upper Peninsula, not only for lumber but 
also for veneer stock, furniture bolts, pulpwood, 
