Excerpt from Wooden and Fiber Boxes That situation, however, could not last always. The constantly lessening forest area and the ever-increasing demand for lumber raised the cost of the grades which the box maker had formerly de manded, and he was forced to take lower grades and other kinds of wood. As boxes came into wider use, his demands increased, and year by year circumstances forced lower and cheaper grades of lumber upon him. The box factory became the market for what the sawmill had left after it had supplied its other customers. Such is the situation today. Billions of feet of lumber yearly go to the box maker as a last resort. He can use it, but the furniture factory, and boat builder, and musical-instrument maker can not. If it is not used for the boxes, it will be left in the woods or at the mills to rot. Where formerly few kinds of wood were accepted by the box manufacturer, he now takes nearly every kind. This can not be better illustrated than by presenting a list of woods and the amount of each bought by the box factories in the State Of Illinois in 1910. 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.

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