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10 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com. Basswood 

 6 cars 4/4 No. 2 Com. Basswood 



3 cars 4/4 No. 3 Com. Basswood 



4 cars 12/4 L. R. Soft Elm 



You Know Something 



About the Land of 



Last Supply 



You know, of course, that the nearest source 

 of adequate lumber supply are the forests of 

 the west, the inter-mountain pines and the fir, 

 spruce, cedar and hemlock of the Pacific Coast. 



In a broad sense, we are at the beginning of an 

 era of 



Competitive Demand 

 for Western Timber 



Mills of the South are exhausting their supply and 



are seeking new locations. 



Timber Is disappearing from the marlict. but not so rapidly 



now as it will on a constantly increasing scale during the 



next decade. Every tract taken ofif the market decreases 



the supply and increases the desirability and value of those 



remaining. 



The best go first. Investigate now. 



James D. Lacey & Co. 



Timber Land Factors 



Chicago, III., 1750 McCormick Building 



Portland, Ore., 1104 Spalding Building 



Seattle, Wash., 1009 White Building 



lire during the ilani,'ir ptiiud, which will end about Jan. 1. He has 

 secured Ihe co-operation of large mine operators in eastern Kentucky, 

 and tliey will maintain patrols for the same purpose. A forestry associa- 

 tion is to he estahlislwd shortly in Kowan luiinty by leading timber 



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I'hc' old Garctson-Groason iiardwood mill at Kilgore, Ark., which has 

 lain idle for several months, will again be put in operation In a few 

 days. A new manager has been placed in charge, and the machinery is 

 being repaired. This plant is located on the Prescott and Northwestern 

 railroad, about two and one-half miles west of Blevlns. It is thought that 

 it will be ready lor operation in about two weeks. 



That Ilarrisburg, Ark., is to have a new cooperage plant is now assured. 

 Bott Brothers, who operate cooperage plants at Alexandria, Mo., and 

 Warsaw, 111., and who also operate a stave plant in Ilarrisburg, visited 

 the last mentioned town recently and made a proposition to the town 

 whereby Bott Brothers would establish an up-to-date cooperage factory at 

 Ilarrisburg If the citizens of the tOA-n would raise a certain sum as a 

 bonus. The bonus has been raised, and it is now assured that the new 

 plant will be built and operated. 



On Oct. 28, forty suits were filed in the Ouachita County Circuit Court 

 against the T. S. Graygon Lumber Company of Finns, Ouachita county, 

 Ark., charging the mill with having violated the ten-hour labor law by 

 compelling its employes to work eleven hours per day. The suits were 

 filed by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney L. B. Smead, who will be assisted b? 

 R. K. Mason, attorney lor the mill employes. The penalty prescribed by 

 the law Is a fine not less than $25.00 and not more than .$200.00 lor erfch 

 offense. T. S. Grayson, president of the company, states that 11 he has 

 violated the law it was through ignorance. Attorney Mason states that 

 the main purpose ol the suits is to stop the practice of overworking the 

 men. 



There now seems little doubt that the strike which was made by the 

 members of the Coopers' Union at Paragould some weeks ago will soon 

 terminate in a complete victory for the manufacturing employers. The 

 employes went on the strike to obtain recognition of their organization by 

 the plant owners, not having any kick to make against wages, hours and 

 treatment. Tliis demand lor recognition was denied the union, and the 

 plants were temporarily closed down. J. C. Clary, commissioner ol labor 

 statistics oi Arkansas, and his deputy, M. J. McMahon, went Irom Little 

 Rock to Paragould in an effort to settle the difficulty. The strikers finally 

 reduced their demands to the recognition by the companies ol a grievance 

 committee, which should at all times handle the grievances ol the em- 

 ployes. Even this was relused by the plant owners, who declared that they 

 would remove the plants Irom Paragould belore they would deviate in any 

 manner Irom the manner in which they had operated the plants before 

 the strike. 



About the hardest and the most telling blow that was dealt the employes 

 came last week when a statement was given out over the signatures of 

 some fifty or sixty business men of the town in which the strikers were 

 condemned in the matter, and declaring that those business men would not 

 loan money or extend credit to the strikers further. It is believed the 

 men will go back and that the plants will be operating as before within 

 another week. 



> WISCONSIN ■<= 



The Success Stave and Heading Company, Athens, has been incorpor- 

 ated with a capital stock ol $15,000. William L. Erbach, William C. 

 Klann and A. C. Rietbrock are the incorporators. 



The Rusk Box and Furniture Company, Hawkins, has filed an amend- 

 ment to its articles of incorporation increasing its capital stock Irom 

 $17,000 to $35,000. 



The Quinlan Timber & Log Company, Soperton, has been incorporated 

 by M. J. Quinlan, John V. Quinlan and H. E. McGraw. The capital stock 

 is $50,000. 



The Ventilated Closet Seat Company, Wausau, has been incorporated 

 to manufacture principally a new patent closet seat. Max Tisch, F. O. 

 Crocker, Samuel Livingston and others are interested. Capital, $15,000. 



Work has been started on the new plant of the recently incorporated 

 Manitowoc Church Furniture Company at Waukesha. Reinforced concrete 

 will be used throughout the building, which will be 60 by 400 feet in size. 

 The concern is operating a temporary plant. 



The latest achievement of the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison 

 is a commercially successful process ol drying wood lor vehicle stock 

 material. The kiln has been perlected and is being used to dry wood to be 

 used by vehicle manulacturers. In curing wood by artificial heat, manulac- 

 turers have never been successful because uneven drying caused checking, 

 warping and other losses. Many w^oods which possess qualities for vehicle 

 construction are discarded because they can not be successfully dried. 

 Many of the discarded timbers are now being successfully used in vehicle 

 construction after drying in the new humidity regulated kiln. The variety 

 of woods which can be used will tie increased as the kiln iij perfected. The 

 new process will aid all manufacturers, particuiarly those using expensive 

 timber. The initial cost ol curing by the new method is slightly in excess 

 ol that of the old process, but the saving in material will more than offset 

 this increased expense ol curing. The laboratory recently succeeded in 

 making wooden shingles fire-resistant by the use ol chemicals and is now 



