Increase of Wood Box Production

Washington, Jan. 12.-In spite of the inroads of substitutes, the wooden box industry almost held its orvn in the past two years, suffering only a 1.3 per cent decline in value of products, reports by the U. S. Bureau of the Census for 1929 indicate when,compared with figures f.or 1927. At the same time, paper box and paperboard box production declined 3.9 per cent in value, it is shown.

Total value of products in wooden boxes, cases and crates, (not including cigar boxes), in 1929 was $122,597,000. This figure covers establishments engaged primarily in the manufacture of wooden boxes. In addition, these products are made to a considerable extent by other manufacturers, as containers for their own products, and as secondary products by sawmills and planing mills. The value of such boxes and shooks produced outside the industry in 1927 was $55,946,870. The corresponding 1929 figures are not'yet available.

In l9D the Census Bureau shows the following' segregation of wooden boxes by classes and value of products:

Western Sash & Door Co. Send Out Unique Blotters'

The Western Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles, wholesale distributors of sash, doors, windows and screen doors, are sending outa series of blotter advertisements that carry colored illustrations of scenes seen on the golf course. Among the titles of the golf illustrations are: "The Fussy Foursome"; "DivotDiggers-Why Strong Men Weep and Finally Go Raving Mad"; "Starting Off Behind a Slorv Bunch"; "Doc Starts in to Broadcast His Grief" ; "The Human Boiler Factorv That AlwavsRuns Full Blast Around the First Tee"-; "Incident in-the Life of a Digger Who Lives Alongside the Qeu15s-and Who Owns a Dog": etc. You will geta great kickout of these golf cartoons.

British Columbia Cut in 1929

Greater Than 1928

Sawmill production in the Province of British Columbia was greater during l9D than during 1928, states a report from the vice consul at Victoria to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce. Production during 1929 ..las 2,3@,346,000'board feet as compared rvith 2,16O.166.m0 board feet for 1928.

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