Two kinds 

 of mills 



The 



consumer's 

 viewpoint 



Moving camp in the North. It takes practical woodsmen to meet such 



conditions as these. 



the maximum profits out of their operations, and yet who fall 

 short in both instances through lack of knowledge of what truly 

 constitutes efficiency. 



Mill men are of two very distinct classes. One has a light 

 investment of capital, and desires returns of a comparatively 

 high profit, and is not dependent on a restricted territory for 

 any great length of time. The other class has heavy investments 

 of capital, and expects sure but lower profits, and is dependent 

 on a restricted territory for a long term of years. 



The portable mill, jumping from place to place, and skinning 

 the woods clean, is the best illustration of the first mentioned 

 class. The enormously expensive pulp mill, with its network 

 of water storage basins, sluices, heavy machinery, and other 

 permanent features, is a type of the second class. 



While outside connections and influences sway the individuals 

 of these two classes, it is generally conceded that the first named 

 class is a forest destroyer, and must tend to be so by the financial 

 exigencies of his means and calling. The other class has 

 often a profitable opportunity to be a forest conservator, since 

 he must consider the forest as much a part of his plant as his 

 machinery, and whatever prolongs the value of the forests 

 increases the value of his investment. 



The consumer is interested in the conservation of the forests 

 both as a citizen of the nation, with a care for the future, and 

 as a user of lumber and the products of the forest, since whatever 



