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Two large engines furnish the motive power, wire ropes transmitting it 

 to the various buildings. Such are the facilities for drying and working 

 lumber that freight cars have been delivered, ready for use, in a few 

 weeks only after the wood composing them was growing in the forest ; 

 but to keep available material for every kind of work, the Company 

 has an extensive yard, with a railroad through the center, wherein is 

 piled lumber for two hundred and fifty passenger cars and one thou- 

 sand freight cars— the usual stock carried amounting to nine million 

 feet. The factory, with its appurtenances, covers twenty eight acres 

 of ground, and the capital stock now amounts to seven hundred and 

 fifty thousand dollars. At Mr. Barney's death the number of employes 

 was over a thousand." 



Such, in 1881, was the industry which Mr. Barney and Mr. 

 Thresher had founded thirty years before with a capital of only ten 

 thousand dollars. 



From the same source as the above (A Tribute to the Memory of 

 Eliam E. Barney, by Rev. Henry F. Colby, Pastor of the ¥\rst Baptist 

 Church, Dayton, Ohio) we quote the following paragraph in descrip- 

 tion of Mr. Barney's characteristics as a business man : "Of course, 

 he was often indebted to the prudent counsel of the partners with whom 

 it was his privilege to be connected, and to the faithful co-operation of 

 experienced men who were intrusted with the different departments. 

 But for many years he was at the head of the establishment, and to his 

 personal traits its growth and reputation were largely owing. Except 

 when he was traveling for the business — and a large portion of his time 

 was thus occupied, sleeping cars furnishing him his rest as he traversed 

 wide sections of country — he was wont to be at the factory from early 

 morning till the whistle sounded at night. He was conscientious, labor- 

 ious and watchful in the extreme. He not only superintended subor- 

 dinates but seemed to keep his eye with wonderful parti(uilarity on the 

 innumerable details of the work. His presence and impress were every- 

 where. In the factory his was the living spirit among the wheels. He 

 had the decision, the power, the control of an imperial commander. 

 Each employe must come promptly up to the terms of his engagement 

 and fulfill it ; for the last hour of his day's work was the Company's 

 profit, the other hours were necessary to earn his wages. Any form of 

 ill behavior was reprimanded, no matter on whom the censure might 

 fall. No work must be turned that was not the very best. Employes 

 at first, like some other people, took his strongly marked visage, his 



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