Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1911-06-16

he should be employed in a city yard
he would get from $40 to $50 after he
had acquired some ability.
1t will require a year or so before
your boy begins to realize some of the
possibilities of his chosen lifework. He
has been learning all he can about
numbering, of course, and will be a
diligent reader of the lumber trade pa
pers that come into the Office, which
will inform him of the proceedings of
various manufacturing Inc selling as
sociations throughout the country and
conditions all over the field.
This study Is most important for
thus he will be solving a serious prob
lem affecting his OWE firm. If he be-
comes a student of freight rates and
manufacturing conditions, he will find
plenty of opportunity to use his brains
to the advantage of his employer. For
instance, he may discover that,
through local conditions, the mill men
in some parts of the country are over
stocked with lumber and are willing
to accept offers below list price. He
knows the freight rates from that mill
to his own town. Thus ii telegram or
dering a carload of this or that may
result in a saving of $40 to $50 or
more, enough to change a close shave
into really profitable business.
BY the time your boy has become
acquainted with the various kinds of
lumber sold in you town and learned
the yard business sufficiently we'll 10
be able to handle all departments
without any directions from anybody,
he becomes a member of the firm
| which he probably would be in time
he should go to some large railroad
center in the east or middle west,
where he will find wholesale lumber
ing an important business, and get a
job. There should not be any special
difficulty in doing this, for he will have
, met numerous lumber statesmen when
he was in the home yard and will
probably have secured their assistance
in making 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 it 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 the
mills, as well as to the retailers; for
it Is quite as important to be able to
buy cheaply as to sell for a high fig
ure. Many mills follow the custom of
loading cars with their product and
shipping them to some transfer point
on the speculation that there will be
a demand somewhere nearby by the
time the car reaches it's destination.
wholesalers also do this, frequently
having hundreds of cars In various
parts of their selling district which
may be diverted quickly to a yard or
other buyer not far away, thus ma
king a 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