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Excerpt from The Lumberman's Hand Book: New Edition Arranged for the special nse of retail lumber merchants by the Editor of the Northwestern Lumberman, so ruled and printed that the Sales, Receipts and stock on hand of Lumber, Lath. Shingles, Pickets, Sash, Doors and Blinds, or Sundries, are shown by the day, month or year in one book, with the cash received or paid for each article. It is also ruled so that different kinds of lumber may be kept separate - for example: It will show at anytime the quantity of Clear Lumber. Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Fencing, Common Boards, Joist and Scantling, etc., on ha: id in the yard or that has been sold during the week, month or year. It likewise will show the same thing in regard to Lath, Pickets, Sash, Doors and Blinds. It will show at the end of the year, on a single page, the amount of each article bought or sold, with the prices, the average cost and average price obtained, and the amount on hand. The book requires no bookkeeping, the directions, headings and rulings are so plain that any one can easily keep it, and it will last for four years. The price of this book is $4, free by mail - only $1 a year for the time it is made to last, and being but little more than half the price for which a single copy can be made. It will be sent C. O. D. when desired. These books are made expressly for keeping tally of lumber, etc., by the piece, and are especially adapted to the use of dealers in, or manufacturers of, Hardwood, and will also be particularly valuable to all buyers of this class of woods for Furniture and Agricultural Implement makers, etc. Each page has printed headings, upon which may be written the kind of lumber, date and place of measurement, from and for whom, number of the car into which it may be loaded, etc. It is ruled with red and blue lines, and divided in the width into 15 spaces, in which the measurer makes his marks. At the left of the page a space is left in which may be set down the sizes or lengths of the pieces to be tallied. For convenience and rapidity of reckoning, each perpendicular space which holds five marks is headed as follows: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. 5. 40, 45, 50, 55, 60 and 65, a wider space being left on the right, in which to set the total of each horizontal line of marks. Another space is left at the bottom of the page for figuring up the totals, memorandums, etc. Each book contains one hundred pages of first class paper, in stiff leather covers, and bound so the covers may be bent back to back without injury. 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.
