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HARDWOOD RECORD 



He SHIP to answer evi-rv li-tter. I jjct <)ii( cirnilHr U'ttt'is, ilcsi rilj- 

 ill}; conditions and aiisweiiiiK all (|Ui'stions that iiiiKlit arise. 



Miiild your faiii|> to bold from alioiit tliirtv to fifty per cent more 

 men than aie required, for usually durin); Xovenilier, December 

 :inil ■lamiary there are plenty of men to l;e had at from $;ili to 

 ^'M for coiiiiiion laluir. Hire everyoiii" that comes aloii<,>, lill the 

 eainps full. I iiy extra tools, lay out all your worU ahead, cut 

 roads, i;rade them, cut out skidways and landiiiys. If you hire 

 teams. I nild liarns for twice the teams necessary. Days ;ue short 

 I. Ill wcatliiM coiiilitioiis are usually good. 'flic idea is to loy; 

 rapidly for ahout three muiitlis. -After I'eluuary 1 men and 

 teams liejiin to quit. If you have taken all tlioe ]irecautiiiiis 

 your work will 1 e well ahead. 



On the other hand, if you construct sinall cani|.-i and Miiall 

 liarns. yon are alwH.vs behind with .vonr work, slioit of men and 

 teams, and always hunting after these things, offering higher 

 wages to get them than you would have to do otherwise. If 

 you hear of some company jiaying high wages, send them all the 

 poor men you can. They will soon get filled with a lot of trash 

 jiiid their logging will i-ost them ^\t> to .*1:2 per thousand. There 

 jire cdncenis whose logging costs tlieiii all of this, Init they won't 

 ■own up to it. 



Our state is making laws to shnulder ex|ieiise on us. We sliouM 

 match trains and musides with tlieiii. (iet aliea.l of llieiii or tliev 



will drown you with heavy assessments. l"or exam[de, why don't 

 they enact laws that will do something with this large floating 

 liiiiich of paupirs.' Do you know that lumbermen are feeding, 

 clothing, doctoring, and in ease of accident, caring for .some old 

 uncle or aunt that was never before heard of? These accidents 

 are caused largely by negligence of fellow' workmen who are 

 debauched, debased, ignorant, with clemoralized minds filled with 

 the anarchist's belief that the more lie destroys the more labor he 

 ••rentes. 



Logging is like war. es]iecially if you are a logger. Vou have 

 to get logs on the landing or bust. Xo man wants to bust, or 

 make failure of his business. In logging, you must always so 

 ;ihead and keep going. As long as .vou are paying the bills you 

 lia\e the say. Treat everybody right if they will let you. If 

 they will not, .you are not to blame. 



Xow conies the question of the superintendent. Is he big 

 enough for the position? If he is not capable of filling this posi- 

 tion, it means expensive logging. It is muili harder to obtain 

 good logging superintendents than it is to obtain good men to 

 villi your sawmill. I believe that, if superintendents were finan- 

 idally interested in the company it winild be better frtr the com- 

 pany. Thev should have the brains and dipliiniac.v of a I'niteil 

 States ]iresiileiit and the fighting qualities of a John L. Sullivan 

 in order to succeed .•iiid make successful loggers. 



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The Lumbermen s Round Table 



THE TARIFF AND BUSINESS 



A leading hardwood manufacturer, who is a close student of 

 general business conditions, realizing that the lumber trade is 

 more affected b.v fundamental conditions than an.v other business 

 oxcept the iron and steel indnstrv, was commenting recently con- 

 «-erning the effects of the revision of the tariff. 



"The banks and others who look onh' at the theoretical side of 

 the situation," he said, "are accustomed to dispose of a matter 

 of this kind by saying that the effects of the tariff have been 

 "discounted' b.v business men. That simpl.v means that the stock 

 market has figured the probable result of the change. It does not 

 mean that Imsiiiess itself lias felt tlie efl'ects nr takes account of 

 them. 



"On the other hand, 1914 will be well along before the actual, 

 •lefinite results are indicated, .loliljers and other large bu,yers of 

 foreign goods will not ]iut them in shape to market until next 

 spring; and manv foreign manufacturers, who are contemplating 

 jin invasion of America, are .iust now feeling their wa.y, and will 

 make a definite attack on our markets some time in the future. 

 It is only when they haxe exhibited their strength and measured 

 swords, in a business way, with our manufacturers that we can 

 sa.v how much or how little the effect of the tariff has been. 



"The lumber Inisiness and most wood-consuniing industries, as 

 a general thing, will not be directly affected by changes in con- 

 ditions. But the lumber business will be affected to a very con- 

 siderable degree indirectly, and for that reason the tariff situa- 

 tion will be worth watching closely from now on.'' 



THE MAN ■WITH NO INSURANCE 



Manv times one reads in the daily papers of the complete 

 destruction by fire of a sawmill or other woodworking plant, with 

 the notation at the bottom of tfie item, "There was no insurance 

 <in the property.'' 



It is fairly eas.y to explain why manv sawmills are unprotected 

 li.v tire insurance, in spite of the fact that their construction and 

 the conditions of operation make the fire hazard an item of no 

 inconsiderable magnitude. These ver.v factors make for a liigh 

 insurance rate, and a high insurance rate discourages the pur- 

 <hase of insurance. Thus the owner who reall.v needs protection 

 the most frequently goes without any at all. It is a sort of left- 



handed method of reasoning that the uiaii with a poor risk 

 cannot afford insurance, but that is the logic of many lumbermen. 



if the sawmill man doesn't want insurance in a stock eoni- 

 ]ian.v, or feels that he can't afford it, let him get into a mutual 

 organization, whose rates are usually lower. By all means, 

 unless he has a fireproof mill or a sufficient number of plants to 

 be able to scatter the risk, he should protect himself from the 

 hea^'y loss that a fire causes, b.y providing some sort of indemnit.y. 

 A TIP FOR THE MACHINERY MAN 



-\ furniture manufacturer, who lias .'i large plant and is fre- 

 c|iieiitl.y in the market for machinery, recently made a remark 

 which mav be worth quoting for the benefit of salesmen of 

 machinery, not to mention lumbermen who have occasion to solicit 

 that c'lass of trade. 



"I have found the tendency to exaggeration so strong among 

 salesmen,'' he said, "that I discount the statements of the av- 

 erage solicitor about fifty per cent. Machinery men are among 

 the worst offenders in this regard. Thev will promise achieve- 

 ments which sound incredible — and usuall.f are. I have put in 

 machinery on the strength of such promises, onlv to find that 

 while the new equipment did reasonablv good work, it did not 

 do the phenomenal things which had been promised for it. It 

 was a fairly good investment, and not a record-breaking one, 



"Hereafter mv requirement is that the man who makes asser- 

 tions must back them up with something more substantial than 

 wind. The next man who sells me a machine on the strength of 

 claimed- jierformance must give me a written agreement to take 

 it back at the jirice 1 paid if it fails to do what he has said 

 it will." 



UNIFORM COST ACCOUNTING 



Kver.vbcidy iiowada.vs believes in cost systems. Ever.vbody 

 knows that to get along without knowing the e.xpense of produc- 

 tion is to assume an unnecessary handicap of considerable pro- 

 portions. In order to have the right point of view, and the right 

 outlook on the business, the manufacturer must know what it is 

 costing him to turn out the goods. 



But one of the important developments nowadays is the demand 

 for uniform cost svstems. Lumbermen and others not only want 

 to know what it costs them to operate, but they want to be able 



