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Show jus we need .their transportation, i Prices and wages are rapidly reai.-h-j Ing a new level. Business has been I bent but. not broken,, and it is com-i com-i ing back with a rebound stronger than ever and the wit:? business- man will prepare now to take advantage of it." This man's advice is good. Ho ha? Inade a success for thirty years as a logger and lumberman and he' it-planning it-planning to do more business than ever. His practical optimism and horse sense is needed in busines today. A SOUND STATEMENT The lumber mills of -the northwest have been goiiig through a heartbreaking heart-breaking period of falling prices and upset trade conditions clue to various dift'eren causes. In spite of a 40 per cent drop in lumber prices building is at a low point. Lumber has taken its loss almost at one gulp and while the treatment was drastic it will cause the industry to be one of the first to recover from war-time conditions. An officer of one of the largest northwest mills which has just closed, in discussing the situation said : "There isn't any lumber business at present. We have closed to repair our mill, put in new boilers and machinery, ma-chinery, and be in a position when ;the building season opens to take care of what I believe will be the-greatest the-greatest building boom this country Jias ever seen. There is absolutely no occasion for hard times as the elements which cause hard times are lacking. There is no over production produc-tion or no over built condition, In ifaet stocks of goods were never lower and never did the country need so much repair work on everything from hen house to skyscraper. The condition is the same the world over, things have Iicbu bt go for five ye;.:; while the fearing down process of na-"'-en. steady. The freight . tvU' 'lav'e to be worked it-manner for the .... .'isiness as much ... .-imply because |