Jimmie Atkinson

Folks, this is Jimmie Atkinson.

He probably has a more formal name than just "Jimmie," but if he has we've never heard it,-and iti probably iotally superflous anyway.

Jimmie has iecently added a new member to his immediate family in the shape of the mustache that you'll notice in the picture, and we wanted the lumber folks to be sure and recognize Jimmie with his new adornment, so we got to have this photo taken.

Jimmie is in charge of the rail sales department for Chas. R. McCormick, at San Francisco. He is one of the youngest men that ever held so important a lumber job in San Francisco territory, and he got it by the merit system route, and no other.

His business career of seven years has been spent entirely in the employ of Chas. R. McCormick. He grabs hold of everything given him to do with such fervor and enthusiasm that he makes it crack like a whip, and they just coukin't keep him down, in the McCormick organization, and didn't want to. He worked at the mill at St. Helens, Oregon, for a time, learning at close range what the mill end of the game was all about. And thenhe.helped them at the bigyard at San Diego, California, for a while. And then they trroughi him into thC San Francisco office and gave him a price list and stock sheet, and-told him to go out into the highways and by-ways, and help the retailers to buy McCormick stock at top prices.

- He put the same old zip into his work on the road that he had in his previous po-sitions, anid the next thing he knew ihe youug red-head was balled in and asked !9 -si"" any good reason he could think of why he shouldn't be placed in charge of the Rail Sales Depirtment. He scratched his head hard, but couldn't think of a.single real reason why he shouldn't take the job, and he hauled off and grabbed the chair, and there he is.

He is well equipped with courage, and enthusiasm, ald integrity, and punch, and ambition, is well animated with the spiril of fair d-ealing, is thoroughly sold on McCormick and McCormick stocks. and it looks as ihough he might not be entirely through climbing the ladder yet. There's only one way to stop a guy like that, and it's against the law to use a club.