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ThcHe dump oars in cHpiicities of IS, 20, 27 or 36 cubic feet are extensively used in connec- 

 tion with Koppel Portable Track for road construction work, transporting building material, 

 fuel, etc., and are generally employed to run on Ko])i)('I jjortablc track, a pile of which appears 

 just back of and between the two dump cars. 



There is a r.ii)idly increasing demand for industrial railways and various t>7)es of cane and 

 dump cars in Porto ]lico and many inquiries have been made (•(niccriiing locomotives earn 

 track, etc., for the comiag season. 



This active demand for modern cane handling c(iui])m('nt, the construction of new planta- 

 tion roads and the imi)rovemeut of the old roads, when considered in connection with the present 

 condition of world sugar demand, point to an unprecedented period of profitable activity in 

 Porto Rican sugar circles. 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS 



Till Danish We.^t Indies, by Waldemar 

 AVestergaard, jjublished by the .Macmillan 

 Co., New York. Price, $2..5(). 



This book furnishes in r.nidable form such 

 information as Americans will wish to pos- 

 sess concerning the Danish West Indies. The 

 author discusses the administration of the 

 Danish West India & Guinea Co. from 1671- 

 1754 and then traces the history of the islands 

 from 1754, from which date they were gov- 

 erned directly by Denmark, to 1917, when they 

 became the property of the United States 

 through purchase. Throughout, economic 

 matters are emphasized, though the more 

 picturesque incidents are also included, such 

 as the exploits of the buccaneers and pirates, 

 even those of Ividd. 



There are very interesting descriptions of 

 the i)roduction of sugar and the crude 

 methods of refining in use in early times. 

 The writer explains carefully the workings of 

 the sugar industry and traces its decline as a 

 result of the exhaustion of the soil, the devel- 

 opment of the beet sugar process, and the 

 labor shortage caused by the abolition of the 

 slave trade. The author then shows how in 

 recent years, more efficient and advanced 

 methods have brought tip the production of 

 sugar to where it was before its decline. The 

 fact that this has been done from a smaller 

 area of cultivation shows that the industry 

 is to assimie a more important part. 



The work is based on extended research in 

 Danish archives and will be of interest to, and 

 valued by, the casual reader as well as the 

 student. 



Walter A. Zelnieker Supply Comi)aiiy 

 m St. Louis, announce the recent appoint- 

 ment of Mr. Karl W. Bock as manager. 



Mr. Bock has been, for the last ten years, 

 secretary of, and assistant to, the vice- 

 I resident of the Union Pacific Coal Com- 

 pany and subsidiary coal companies, lo- 

 cated at Omaha, Nebraska. 



The Walter A. Zelnieker Supply Co. an- 

 nounce that they have secured the services 

 of Mr. M,\ H. Dayton as city salesman. 



.Mr. Dayton was formerly with the Rail- 

 road Supply Co., Chicago, m., as secretary 

 and jurchasing agent; also their eastern rep- 

 resentative for five years. He came to St. 

 L'ouis seven years ago representing the same 

 firm and that of the Chicago Signal & Supply 

 Co., and the Elyria Iron & Steel Co., manu- 

 facturers of signal and track maintenance 

 materials. 



TheWalter A. Zelnieker Supply Company 

 and affiliated companies are now represented 

 in the Birmingham district by Mr. Thomas 

 A. Hamilton, who for the past fourteen years 

 has been connected with Crane Company, 

 prior to which he was superintendent of the 

 East St. Louis Plant of the Zelnieker Car 

 Works. .Mr. Hamilton will have charge of 

 both buyin-r and selling in the southeastern 

 territory. 



Mr. Hamilton's office will be at 1018 Wood- 

 ward Building, Birmingham, Alabama. 



Pre>ident Menocal has signed a decree plac- 

 ing a credit of .'$20,000 at the disposal of the 

 Department of Public Works for the con- 

 struction of a road from Zulueta to Placetas. 



NEW YORK CHARTER 



Honduras and Buffalo Corp., Buffalo, 

 realty and cultivation of same in Honduras, 

 operate lumber mills, manufacturing, sugar 

 cane, &c., $10,000; H. Yates, E. B. Stevens, 

 J. F. Smith, Buffalo. 



