Talk:Pere Marquette Lumber Company

Suggestion

 * 7&6=thirteen — The History section starts right off with Ludington's failing health, and then follows with the events and such that preceded this advent. For better narrative flow I would recommend moving that first paragraph further down in the section, with the appropriate adjustments in grammar. The first sentence/paragraph might start out something like this : e.g."The lumber baron and founder of Ludington, James Ludington, owned 360 acres that included the lots of the village of Pere Marquette in Mason County in the northwestern part of Michigan...". -- Gwillhickers (talk) 18:59, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Great ideas! Tried to implement pretty much along those lines. Always looking for improvements to the article. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:25, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Gwillhickers  Good suggestion. You are right.  In my work (which involves a lot of writing) I know that chronological is better, generally.
 * Here however, I was not the original author, and I am slow to interfere with the creative decisions made by Doug Coldwell. He is a first rate contributor to Wikipedia, and I respect his efforts.  So I try to tread lightly. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 22:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Doug, thanks. Yes, chronology is usually best, esp in the opening sentence(s) to the lede or given section. Once in a while, however, we can jump forward to connect or clarify a point made in the present, etc. Also, I hope 7+6=thirteen's and my few edits were received well. Interesting history. A beer for you and 7+6=thirteen. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 23:32, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Attribution
Text and references copied from Pere Marquette Lumber Company to Log driving, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 13:34, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Clarification needed
In the History section there seems to be a sentence that needs clarification:
 * "The company had the capability to produce about four barrels of salt per day and annually produced over 90,000 barrels of salt. "

Four barrels a day x 365 days in a year would give an annual yield of only 1460 barrels. How are we getting 90,000 barrels? Seems we're missing an explanation here. e.g.Did the company start out producing 4 barrels of salt a day, and then stepped up production? -- Gwillhickers (talk) 00:02, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ Corrected and cleared up. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:04, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

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