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KD. 



LOCATIONS FOR 

 INDUSTRIES. 



The name of the Chicago, Milwaukee 

 & St. Paul Railway has long been iden- 

 tified with practical measures for the 

 general upbuilding of its territory and 

 the promotion of its commerce, hence 

 manufacturers have an assurance tliat 

 they will find themselves at home on 

 the company's lines. 



The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 Railway Company's 6,300 miles of rail- 

 way, exclusive of second track, con- 

 necting track or sidings, traverses eight 

 states, namely: 



NORTH 

 DAKOTA 



SOUTH 

 DAKOTA 



Kz l*aas«U|[er 

 Trains. Fut Krt. 

 Trains 



Tbrouphoul, 



MINNESOTA 



NORTHERN 

 MICHIGAN 



IOWA 



MISSOURI. 



WISCONSIN. 



which comprise a great Agricultura., 

 Manufacturing and Mining territory. 



The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 

 Railway Company gives unremitting at- 

 tention to the development of local 

 traffic on its lines and, with this in view, 

 seeks to increase the number of manu- 

 facturing plants on its system either 

 through their creation by local enter- 

 prise or the influ.x of manufacturers from 

 the East. It has all its territory dis- 

 tricted in relation to resources, adapta- 

 bility and advantages for manufactur- 

 ing. Specific information furnished 

 manufacturers in regard to suitable 

 locations. Address, 



W. B. DAVENPORT, 



lodustrlal Coaunls^looer C. M. & St. P. R'y. 

 660 Old Colony Bide., CblcaKO. lU. 



MANUFACTURERS 

 AND SETTLERS 



will nnd extraordinary Inducements for lo- 

 cation In Northern Wisconsin along the 

 WiBConsin Central Lines There are 

 plenty of fine lands for farming as well as 

 large beds of Ctay, Kaolin and Marl, ti. nether 

 with fine Bardwood timber for manufactur- 

 ing purposes. 



Pamphlets and complete Information can 

 be obtained by wrlUng 



W. H. KILLEN. 

 Deputy Land and Industrial Cominlssloner, 

 Colby t Abbot Bldg., Milwaukee, Wis., or 



JAS. C. POND, G. P. A., 



Milwaukee, Wis. 



.\,ss(l<-liitioii iiiciiiIhts iif tlu> 

 \;iliMli:il .Xssoi'llltlnll ill tin- VlT.V IlllK- 

 lilisc rules WITl' Mllctjlll'il. 



Niiw, il 1st iMisstlilc lliiit till- I'lllcH of the 

 MMiiufiii'liin-rs' .Vssocliitloii iim.v In- lilt' 



llfSt. lull It Is II l|IICStlllU Wlllcll tll(> lllil- 



Jurily uf Itolli (Ii'mIits iiikI iiiiiiiiiriicliin'i-H 

 liiivi' ili'clslvcl.v (looldt'il In till- m'KMtivc. 

 Tlu' .Miimirncliircrs" AssdcliilUiii ddi-s not 

 liii'iiiilf II iniijiii'ily of the liiii'ilwiiixl iiiiiim- 

 l! ■(•Hirers of the riillcd Sttilcs, nnd Is 

 |ir:n-ll(iill.v n piirtisiin Imd.v. nnd li.v liislst- 

 iii;; upon a .si-t of riilfs of its own. Is 

 cntlri-l.v piirllsiin and is not willing to 

 (■(iiicihU' etjual Justiw to tin- men who liu.v 

 and liandli' nnd st>nd Into i-onsiiniiition the 

 liiiidiirts of tlu'lr mills, wlilcli Is the Ion;; 

 and short of the whole niatlcr. There 

 suMiis to he a laek of eiinlt.v in the inat- 

 Icr. 



And as so nian.v of llic .Maiail'aclurers' 

 Assoeiation iieioiis to the National Assoc- 

 i.-.tion. wh,v shoiild not the two liannoiiizp, 

 and l>.v reasonnl>le eomproinise nsree upon 

 one set of rules? 



Praclieai deinoerac,v <-oiieede(l the ri;;ht 

 of the niajorit.v to rule, and if a few iiieiu- 

 liers of the National Assoeiation or of the 

 Hardwood Manufaeturer.s' Assoeiation of 

 the I'nited States, whieli are in a minority, 

 are not satisfied with tin- rules adopted by 

 the lar;;e ma.jorit.v. let them try l>y reason- 

 alile methods to ;ret them amended: and so 

 louis as they are memliers of the gri-eat 

 l)ody that adopted them, instead of seeed- 

 in.i.' anil forming another nssociation, or 

 foriuin.ir it while still holding member.ship 

 ill the other, tlie.v would show a more 

 eonsistent spirit than by undertaking to 

 foree the great majority to eome to their 

 terms by ado|)tiiij; a different set of rules 

 and undertaking to sell under them to 

 the confusion of buyers. — O. S. Whitmore, 

 ill "Dixie." 



A XJNIFOKM GRADE FOR HARDWOOD 

 LUMBER. 



There was held at Indianapolis during 

 the last month the annual nieetiiig of the 

 National Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion. The furniture inaniifacturers of the 

 lountr.v should be interested in the pro- 

 ceedings of this bod.v, because the Na- 

 tional association is engaged in an effort 

 to bring about a system of uniform inspec- 

 tion rules. When the manufacturers of 

 furniture in Michigan were able to draw 

 their lumber suppl.v entirel.v from the for- 

 ests of that state; when the makers of 

 furniture at Minncaiiolis and at interior 

 points throughout Wisconsin were able to 

 get all the lumber they wanted from the 

 mills in Wisconsin and ^Minnesota, it was 

 comparatively uniiuportant what the rules 

 of inspection were so long as tlie,v w'ere 

 understood by the buyer of the lumber 

 and the seller. But there is hardly a man- 

 ufacturer of furniture anywhere north of 

 the Ohio River who is not now drawing 

 Ills supply of oak from the South as well 

 as the North. Even the makers of furni- 



ture III the South lliid TciiiieHHee iiml West 

 Virgiiilii and the limlier Ntnles In the MIs- 

 sissippl Valley necesKiiry holirces of sup- 

 ply. The price cuts n llgure niso, nnd nl- 

 tholigh It hns sometimes been clniined that 

 the price In nny event Is ninde to lit the 

 grnde, il is Iniportaiit to the niiiniifaclurer 

 to know with reiiKoiiiible neciirncy whiil 

 Ihe grade Is; nild^wliat he should be able 

 to gel out of II given grade, for the use 

 he has III pnl It to, whether II comes from 

 Michigan or Minnesota. I'p to the time 

 the Nntlonal nssociation was lii'iinL.'ht liilo 

 existence there wns nn indivldnal Inspec- 

 tion system peculiar to every imporlnni 

 liiarket. Some progress has made toward 

 uniformity, and altiiougli there Ik still a 

 facliiiiinl division, and some of the manu- 

 facturers have taken the position that the 

 NnHoiinl rules were made for and by the 

 wholesaler or .jobber. In due time we are 

 disposed to believe that the right principle 

 will iirevail. And the right principle Is 

 one set of governing rules with thorough 

 and Impartial inspection when necessary. 

 This is tlie sort of thing which will suit 

 the furniture manufacturers of the coun- 

 try. — Furniture .lournal. 



ECONOMICAL TTSE OF TIMBER. 



I'hc .M.-irqiieltc .Mining .lournal says: 

 '■One of the most promising economic 

 labors undertaken b.v the general govern- 

 nieiit is the pivservation of the forests and 

 the teaching of scientific principles in the 

 business of lundieriiig. At first this work 

 was looked upon askance by the practical 

 lumberman, but now the bureau of for- 

 estry reports that great interest is taken 

 in its e.Kperiments b.v the lenders of the 

 lumber interests, who are now applying 

 to the government experts for assistance 

 ill the solution of the problems before 

 them. .Many of the recent purohnses of 

 timbered binds in the South will Ix" lum- 

 bered in accordance wilh bureau sugges- 

 tions — only the largest trees being cut at 

 first, .ind the smaller timber left to ma- 

 ture. In this wa,v a continuous sujiply of 

 timber will be taken from the laud. The 

 tract recently acquired in Florida by .7. S. 

 Stearns will ln> lumbered in this way. 



"The bureau of forestry is not content 

 with this li<>ld of effort. It also is doing 

 much along the line of teaching economy 

 in the use of woods. The plan is to show 

 lumber users the need of pressing inferior 

 \\ oods into service where they will do as 

 well, or nearly as well, as the better varie- 

 ties, and also demonstrating that by proper 

 seasoning and preserving tliat poorer 

 woods can be made to take the place of 

 the more valuable kinds. For example, it 

 is folly to use white oak for railroad ties 

 or white jiine for piece stuff, ilureover, it 

 is false economy to use green timber for 

 any purpose. Seasoned timber lasts 

 longer, since the w.lter in green tiralier 

 is necessar.v to the life of germ producing 

 fungi. Seasoning also greatly increases 

 the effectiveness of preservative treat- 



