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Study of lumber consumption in the Springfield district

• HF-ID: HF1925-02
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Albright, Wesley
  • Cline, Albert C.
  • Davis, Arthur A.
  • Hosley, Neil W.
  • Powell, Grant
  • Shepard, Harold B.

• Associated Person:
  • West, Frank M.

• Date: 1925
• Location: Springfield MA
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Notes, correspondence, newpaper clippings. 1 accordion folder.

• Keywords: off forest, lumbering, economics
• Abstract:
  • A. C. Cline, general director of Harvard Forest and H. B. Shepard, a consulting forester from Boston, led forestry students in a survey of the market for wood from New England Forests. Cooperating with F. M. West of the New England Box Company, the students (Hosley, Albright, Powell and Davis) interviewed 40 representative Springfield, MA manufacturers that used wood either for stock purposes or for boxing and crating.

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  • Publication: Lumber consumption in the Springfield district

• Archives Location: Middle Room
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