Excerpt from Hardwood Record, Vol. 38: April-October, 1914 The manufacture of wood products in Chicago is highly diversi fied. Forty - three industries are separately listed and reported upon. This includes nearly all of the regular and some of the special wood-using industries of this country. No large industry is omitted. The largest, in its demand for wood, is that which makes boxes and crates. This is to be expected from the fact that Chicago is a great shipping center for almost all kinds of merchandise, and immense numbers of boxes are demanded to carry the products to the retail merchants in the surrounding towns and states. Though feet of lumber are yearly manufactured into boxes in Chicago, it is well known that this is not the whole quantity used. Shooks ready to nail together into finished boxes are shipped in from states as far away as Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Tennessee. No records are kept of those which thus come in from outside regions, but it is known that the num ber is large, and that if it were added to the boxes and crates made in Chicago the total would be greatly increased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.