. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. JlNE, 1907 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 25 it I am considering in a broad, general way that is applicable to the trade as a whole, and I believe that prevailing conditions will eventually force the retail trade to cease the considering so much of the question of prices, and go for the lumber when they can get it, no matter what the prices may be at the time. Declines in Lumber Prices Merely Tem- porary, As a Rule But the question is likely to be raised in this conn
. Canadian forest industries 1907. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. JlNE, 1907 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 25 it I am considering in a broad, general way that is applicable to the trade as a whole, and I believe that prevailing conditions will eventually force the retail trade to cease the considering so much of the question of prices, and go for the lumber when they can get it, no matter what the prices may be at the time. Declines in Lumber Prices Merely Tem- porary, As a Rule But the question is likely to be raised in this connection. "What is a dealer to do with a large stock on hand and the prices in the wholesale market go down on him?" This is one of the chances that is inevitable in any business, but we know again that in the lum- ber market any fall in prices is liable to be but of a temporary character, and chiefly. 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 buy
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