COMMENT. 



The Cosmopolitan IMagazine last fall announced a series of 

 articles to appear in the early winter by Charles Edward Russell 

 on the Lumber Trust. For some reason the Cosmopolitan did 

 not publish this series, but it has appeared in the World To-day, 

 now called Hearst's Magazine. To one at all familiar with the 

 lumber industry, the attempt of the writer to develop something 

 spectacular and conclusive as regards trust conditions is pathetic. 

 The methods of some retail lumbermen and their associations are 

 perhaps open to criticism, but when we go back to the manufac- 

 turing end, the one unanswerable question from the commercial 

 standpoint is : What other methods could the lumbermen have 

 possibly used with profit, in view of prevailing stumpage values 

 and wholesale lumber prices? 



