. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Correct Way To Pile Lumber for Drying. owing to the time of year. Again, the re- tailers have it within their power to save themselves from any consequent loss arising from this contingency. They can do it if they will, and it often proves to the advant- age of the dealer so circumstanced, because with such a stock he is not liable to be anxious about cutting the prices on a bill. As a mat- ter of good business policy prices to the con- sumer should always be based on
. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Correct Way To Pile Lumber for Drying. owing to the time of year. Again, the re- tailers have it within their power to save themselves from any consequent loss arising from this contingency. They can do it if they will, and it often proves to the advant- age of the dealer so circumstanced, because with such a stock he is not liable to be anxious about cutting the prices on a bill. As a mat- ter of good business policy prices to the con- sumer should always be based on what lum- ber costs in the local yard, and not on what they may happen to be at the time in the wholesale market. It is all too common a thing for dealers to look at the last wholesale list when they are called to figure on a com- petitive bill. This may do when the last list is higher than what their last orders were bought at, but where they happen to be at a lower notch, the cost should be the prices at which they paid for the stock on hand or what was last received, and which is required in the bill. The prices given the consumer should have nothing to do with the whole- sale market at all. He is not buying of the wholesaler; he is buying of you', and your cost prices should be the governing basis in the estimate. Cost op Carrying Stock. There is another thing, too, in this consider- ing of cost which has usually been ignored by the retailer. This is the cost of carrying the stock on hand. It has not been taken into account chiefly by reason of the fact that dealers in general have not cared to get in any more lumber than was sufficient for the actual present needs of this trade. When a carload came in they were not satisfied until it was hauled out again at any price they could get for it, and then sit down and wait for the car they ordered the week before. But, as I have before remarked, the continued con- gestion in transportation matters and the overburdened sources of
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