Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-09-08

met numerous lumber statesmen when
he was in the home yard and Will
probably have seemed their ASST t@4c.
in maniag the move.
Here his work will be that of clerk,
attending to the volume of orders and
invoices and correspondence with mill
men. railroads and retailers. If he IS
with a firm that has an extensive trade
he will be doing business with all
parts of the country, from buying car
loads of lumber and shingles in the
states of Washington and Texas and
Michigan and Maine, to selling 1t to
the government for a drydock to be
built on the Panama canal or to re-
tailers In all parts of the country.
Continuing his previous habits OF
study, your boy will find here oppor-
tunity to exercise all the brains he pos
sesses. He will not only be in compe-
tition with the other Offices In the city,
but this competition will extend to tho
mills, as we'll as to the retailers; for
# IS quite as important to be able to
buy cheaply as to sell for high fg-
ure. Many mills follow the custom or
loading cars with their product ana
shipping them to some transfer point
on the speculation that there will be
n demand somewhere nearby by the
fine the car reaches Its destination.
wholesalers also do this, frequently
having hundreds of ears In various
! parts of their selling district which
I. tp1y1 w n a
other buyer not far away, thus ma
king hit with the buyer on account
of the quick delivery, and getting
their money quickly.
Wholesalers also maintain the
closest possible relations with mills
turning out the kind of product they
handle; some of them, indeed, having
actual definite relations with certain
mills to handle all their product
Thus, your boy who is now a matureo
man of % to 25, and IS drawing a sal
airy of perhaps $125 month, will be
chosen to make the annual or semi
annual visit the firm pays to the mills
spending several weeks looking into
manufacturing conditions and sign
ing contracts.
This gives him personal standin:
with the rlill men and also clos
knowledge of the general phases o
manufacturing cost, output, frelgh
rates to various points, the probabl
production and its influence on prices
etc. Also he has been visiting the re
tail dealers that handle this lumbe
and knows just as intimately all thei
requirements in the way of prices
quantity. etc. So he has become tn
keen, able connecting link betweel
producer and consumer.
Don't you see what a big futur
there is in store for him? Before lon
he will likely start in firm of hi
own with an associate or two one c
them devoting himself to the sellin
and the other to the buying end. II
will not require much money to d
this, for he has established credit wit
the mill men, and can sell to retailer
before he has to pay the manufa'
be what he chooses to make It. As h
has set out to be a real lumbermai
with a mill of his own, he will loo
for opportunities to get into som
manufacturing firm. This may com
through an offer to be eastern seliin
representative OF large mill, placin
all its product, and later on to 60 t
that mill as resident manager of tn
sales department, the biggest end c
the business and, ultimately, by tn
time he is 35 or 40 he viii have OpDol
tunity to be taken In as q member @
that or some other firm.
Thus he becomes one of the import
ant members of one of the largest dc
partments of industrial life in tn
world, with the high social and bus
ness standing he deserves and abur
dant financial reward.
Copyright, 1910 by the Associated Lit
erary Press)