entirely friendly, and, in our presence at 

 least, not the slightest resentment was 

 shown. By knowing who was the first, our 

 readers may probably know who is the 

 sorriest. 



We present herewith a number of views 

 of the Buffalo Lumber Company's yards, 

 which are scattered around over the coun- 

 try as these views are scattered over our 

 paper. 



This shows the difficulty, as nothing else 

 dees, of the plan to organize the manu- 

 facturers of the , country against the 

 middlemen or dealers, so-called. The 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is 

 classed as dealers; so is the Hugh McLean 

 Lumber Company, Taylor & Crate, Scatch- 

 erd & Son, and yet the amount of lumber 

 which they produce or control the produc- 

 tion of, collectively, is immense. 



In fact, this rule works both ways, as 

 many another rule does. In catering to 

 the consuming trade, the manufacturers 

 have made prices so close that there is 

 but little profit for the middleman. 



The result of all this is not in increased 

 price to the manufacturer, but a lessening 

 of the cost to the consumer, and an in- 

 crease in competition in the manufactur- 

 er's own field. 



For firms like the ones named, seeking 

 for the wherewithal to meet ruinous com- 

 petition, naturally turn to the producing 

 field, and with their vast resources in cap- 

 ital and energy, turn to the manufacture 

 of lumber and increase the competition in 

 the manufacturer's own line. 



In other words, they cannot buy lumber 

 cheap enough, they must produce it or 

 control the production of it themselves. 



To show how varied are their interests 

 and how wide the territory covered, we 

 show a reproduction of one of the 

 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company's 

 yards at a mill in Pennsylvania. There 

 on that mill yard they have piled an as- 

 sortment of dry oak, birch, chestnut, bass- 

 wood, maple and ash. Then we show an- 

 other reproduction of a mill yard in Ten- 

 nessee. This stock consists entirely of 

 dry, plain and quarter sawed white oak. 



Then we show a birdseye view of an- 

 other mill situated, we believe, in West 

 Virginia. Thus we see how the Buffalo 

 Hardwood Lumber Company is fortified 

 against high prices, and why they do not 

 pay extremely fancy prices and cannot be 

 made to. This only represents a portion 

 of their reserve stock. It is strictly re- 

 serve stock upon which they may draw at 

 any time to fill the orders for their im- 

 mense business. There are no less than 

 six firms in Buffalo alone which do busi- 

 ness in the same way. Talk about driving 

 the wholesaler out of business! You don't 

 know what you are talking about. So long 

 as he has got the money and brains it is 

 difficult to drive him out of business. As 

 before stated, there are at least six firms 

 doing the same kind of business, equally 

 large and equally as well equipped, in the 



