Buying Selling Softwood Lumber

Excerpt from The Distribution of Softwood Lumber in the Middle West, 1917: Wholesale Distribution; Studies of the Lumber Industry, Part VIII Railroads, large construction companies, wood-using factories, and retailers are the principal wholesale buyers of lumber. The bulk of it is bought on the current market under conditions as complex as those existing in the selling end. Whole sale buyers are often able to whipsaw one seller against another, particularly during periods of depression, and in other ways exert strong downward pressure upon wholesale prices. During the past 10 years the trend in buying appears to have been in favor of transactions direct with the mill, especially in the case of retail lumber dealers and railroads. Wholesale distribution embraces the sale and handling of lumber in the bulk. It puts the product of the sawmills into the hands of consumers who buy in relatively large quantities and of retailers who redistribute in smaller amounts. In wholesale distribution, therefore, there are two distinct factors sale transactions and (2) transportation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.