That’s a lot of lumber

Fruit Growers Supply Company lumberyard, 1935.

The compilation of the logging history of the Fruit Growers Supply Company was a very enjoyable project.  In their meticulous annual reports there was always some interesting fact. Take for instance of the above photograph that shows 54 million board feet of lumber. The reason why Fruit Growers was in the lumber business was for a supply of box shook, the components used to make a wooden box to ship citrus, since this was before cardboard. Anyhow, if the lumber depicted above was used for box shook, it would only meet one-third of the boxes needed by Sunkist for that year.

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