Excerpt from Robinson's Money-Saving Mill-Made Cut-to-Fit Houses: Their Meaning to YouOur mill-made houses are shipped direct to you from the forests of Michigan, thus saving all cost which adds no value, by selling direct from the forest to the home. Ordinarily, the home builder pays from two to four times the actual cost of production for every piece of material that goes into his house. The reason for the high cost is, that the goods pass through so many hands and with as many profits added. The lumber, starting with the Iumberman, who cuts the timber, to the mill owner, from the mill to the big wholesaler, from the wholesaler to the planing mill, from the planing mill to the local lumber vard. Each middleman adds his expense, his losses, his profits. All these are piled up in the retail price and must be paid by you.Our mill-made houses are exactly like any other well-constructed house when erected. They cannot be taken apart except as you would tear apart any good house. They are not portable and all the lumber comes in bundles, not sections.A saw is practically unnecessary in any part of the erection of one of our houses. The measuring, sawing, and fitting is done by automatic machinery and best skilled labor right at the mills which are situated in the heart of the great timber lands of Michigan.When erected a mill-made house will last for several generations, as long as any other well-constructed house.They are designed so that mill-run lengths are used almost through out. Using mill-run lengths makes unnecessary the cutting to ~vaste of good lumber. Waste is reduced to less than two per cent. That's one reason why we can furnish No. I Yellow Pine and Huron Pine in every house at such low figures.Skilled labor is really unnecessary in the erection and (repletion of these houses - because we supply the skilled labor in our r fills, pre paring the entire house for you to fit and nail together in a few days.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.