. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. May, 1905 THE ^ATood-^ATorl^er ana Ketaller CUTTING SLACK COOPERAGE STOCK. A statistical statement declares that 97 percent, of business enterprises result in failure. If that is true, why is it true? In stave factory practice it need not be true. In fact, all the lines of cooper stock production, including staves, heading and hoops, promise satis- factory returns, and redeem the promise when caution and industry prevail—not caution to secure labor at starvation
. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. May, 1905 THE ^ATood-^ATorl^er ana Ketaller CUTTING SLACK COOPERAGE STOCK. A statistical statement declares that 97 percent, of business enterprises result in failure. If that is true, why is it true? In stave factory practice it need not be true. In fact, all the lines of cooper stock production, including staves, heading and hoops, promise satis- factory returns, and redeem the promise when caution and industry prevail—not caution to secure labor at starvation prices, but caution against the display of ignorance in the selec- tion of men and material. Get the best material to be had, and get the most out of it by selecting the best operatives obtainable and keeping the best of them as long as possible. If a man does not know the business well enough to see when one or more of his men are taking advantage of his ignorance of de- tails, he should hire a foreman who does know, and let that foreman manage the minor details, not have the foreman report the man's faults, and then go and ask the man if the foreman told the truth. No wonder such tactics result in failure. Taking into consideration the cost of raw material and the legitimate cost of manufactur- ing it into finished stock, it seems that loss is impossible. However, it reuqires but very. Fig. 1. little ignorance, accompanied, as usual, with bad management, to secure those disastrous results that creep up so quietly that they are not noticed until their grip is so tight that re- lease is impossible. The cost of stave bolts is $2 to $5 a cord, each cord of the $2 wood making 900 to 1,000, mostly cull staves, and promising but a small profit at the very best. But the $5 wood is where the profit is. A cord makes nearly twice as many, mostly good staves, that cost the same to manufacture as the culls, yet if culls are in demand it pays to make them, and then it accommodates the pe
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