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the state forester, Imvlng arranged for the work to be carried on. 



Lexington. Ky., Is getting to be sometbing of a lumber center, two 

 large comi)anies baving established tbelr general ofQccs there. They are 

 the Turkey Koot Lumber Company, a Hitter concern which Is operating 

 a big tract of timlicr in Jackson county, Ky. Its olllce will be on the 

 ninth lloor of the new Kayette National Itank building. It has also 

 been announced that the Kentucky Lumber Company, of Cincinnati, wllf 

 have its olHccs In Islington alter April 1. The company has mills at 

 Burnside and Williamsburg, Ky. : Lafollette, Tenn., and Sulllgent, Ala. 

 Kalpb McCrackcn, secretary-treasurer and sales manager, made the an- 

 nouncement in Lexingion recently. 



=-< ST. LOUIS >■- 



The entertainment committee of the Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis Is 

 arranging for Its next banquet and business meeting. This will prob- 

 ably take place the latter part of the month but it may have to be post- 

 poned until the early part of Marcli, in order to meet the dates of some 

 of tlie speakers who are desired. It is tlic intention at the present time, 

 to have one of the leading St. Louis bankers address the club on the 

 new federal banking system. There will also be some very Important 

 matt.rs come before the club. The club Is also planning to give a series 

 of entertaining monthly meetings during the ne.xt few months, and 

 have a number of outside organizations as Its guests. The plans are still 

 In an embryotic state at present. The committee, however. Is bard at 

 work to perfect its plans. 



K. W. Blumer, sales manager of the l.othman Cypress Company, has 

 been attending the recent convention of lumber associations In this sec- 

 tion of the country. He was at the one in Chicago recently and also 

 attended that at KeoUuk, Iowa. He is now making several of the 

 towns in southeastern Iowa and will be home shortly. 



\V. W. Dings of the Garctson-Grcason Lumber Company has returned 

 from a short trip through Texas and is getting ready for a run over 

 to Kan^w City. He says the railroad trade is in pretty good shape. 

 The company's mills, with the exception of the one at Wesson, are run- 

 ning all right. The Wesson mill had to close down for several days, 

 owing to the hard rains and wet weather. It was almost impossible 

 to get log<5 from the woods on account of the rains so it was thought 

 best to closu down until the weather became more favorable. 



J. A. Hemphill, sales manager of the Gideon-Anderson Lumber and 

 Mercantile Company, states that the mills are working right along 

 getting out lumber. He is looking for a brisk trade before long. 



IC. W. Luehrniann of the C. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany says the company has been doing a very satisfactory business 

 right along and is anticipating a fine trade as soon as the weather 

 will permit of building operations to begin. 



Krank G. Hanley of the I-'rank G. Hanley Cypress Company is taking 

 advantage of the dullntss in the cypress trade, to go to the Gulf with 

 his family He will be back in time to go after the spring business. 



I'rank Liebke of the C. I". Liebke Hardwood Mill and Lumber Com- 

 pany slates that the company is expecting a big shipment of ash logs be- 

 fore long. It booked a big order recently, one of a million feet of 

 quartered and plain oak. 



--<, ARKANSAS >= 



The Southwestern Lumber Company ot Neal Springs, Ark., has filed 

 resolution with the secretary of state to surrender its charter. This 

 company has been engaged in the hardwood lumber manufacturing busi- 

 ness at Neal Springs and Hope, Ark., for the past several years. 



A contract for the purchase ot 700,000 feet ot white oak timber in 

 Newton county, Arkansas, was recently let l)y Francis Kiefer, forest 

 sup'rvlsor of the Ozark National Forest, to the Buffalo Stave and Lum- 

 ber Compcny. 



One of the largest timber deals to be transacted in the state recently 

 was completed last week when the Chicago .Mill & Lumber Company, ot 

 Helena, bought 98,000,000 feet of hardwood timber near Georgetown on 

 the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad. This timber is located in 

 the White river bottoms of Woodruff county, and covers about 20,000 

 acres. 



The Red River Cottonwood Lumber Company, with plant at Clipper, 

 fifteen miles north of Texarkana on the Iron Mountain railroad, was 

 recently thrown into involuntary bankruptcy on petition ot creditors. 

 The assets are listed at $20,000 and the liabilities at the same figure. 



Fred G. Harbourn, thirty-six years old, died at a Little Rock lios 

 pital on February ;>. Mr. Harbourn was a native of Illinois, but ha<i 

 resided in Arkansas for the past ten years, during which time he was 

 engaged in the hardwood lumber business at Walco. He is survived by 

 his wife, two sons, six brothers, four sisters and his father. 



The Forked Leaf Oak Company's plant at Ileber Springs began opera- 

 tions on January 12. This concern is manufacturing wagon and imple- 

 ment stock. E. H. Ewlng, formerly of the K. H. Ewing Lumlx'r Com- 

 pany of Heber Springs, is general manager of the company. 



The Duff *. Iletzler Company of Mountaluvicw. Ark., manufacturer of 

 tight l)arrel and circular heading, recently purciiased 1.500.000 feet of 

 white oak timber near Turkey Creek, Baxter county. The company is In- 

 stalling new machinery at its plant and will have it in operation by 

 March 1. This company has operated a mill at Brinkiey. Ark., for the 

 past thirteen years. 



On February 20, United States District Judge Jacob Trlebcr rendered 

 a decision in the case of the United States vs. Lee Wilson & Co., com- 

 monly known as the Moon Lake case, in favor of the government. This 

 is one of the famous Arkansas sunk lands cases, which Involve alto- 

 gether the title to some 80,000 acres of timberland in eastern Arkansas. 

 The Moon Lake case involves only about 900 acres of land, but the 

 decision in this case is of far reaching effect on the numerous other 

 similar cases. Litigation arose over the question as to whether or not 

 this so-called sunk laud belonged to the United States government or to 

 Individuals claiming under the state ot Arkansas and the St. Francis 

 levee district. It was the government's contention that through error 

 of the surveyors in 1841 this land was returned as lakes and sunk land 

 when In fact It was land in place. The government contended that It 

 was not the intention of Congress to part with this land and the title 

 still remained in the United States government. In this contention the 

 government was sustained by the ruling of District Judge Jacob Trleber. 

 The case will likely go on appeal to the Supreme Court of the United 

 States before final determination. 



■< WISCONSIN y- 



The new concern incorporated as the Mitchell Wagon Company of 

 Racine has taken over the Mitchell wagon business from the Mitchell- 

 Lewis Motor Company of Kaclne. The newly formed firm was incor- 

 porated with $500,000 capital stock "uy Milton J. Knoblock, John B. 

 Simmons, George N. Fratt, Raymond Weins and John B. Rowlands, for 

 the purpose of manufacturing wagons and automobile bodies. It is 

 thought, however, that the new firm is being financed by eastern cap- 

 italists and also rumored that the International Harvester Company 

 of America is interested in the deal, that the plant will he one of five 

 ot the largest in the country to be consolidated and that Charles K. 

 Flint of New York is financing the company. The wagon business was 

 founded in 1838 and for many years the Mitchell & Lewis Company, 

 Ltd., were leading factors in the wagon trade. The Mitchell Motor 

 Company was later formed by the same interests to manufacture auto- 

 mobiles. In 1010 the two concerns . consolidated as the Mitchell-Lewis 

 Motor Company with .'510,000,000 capital stock. This company has now 

 disposed of the wagon business and will manufacture motor cars ex- 

 clusively. 



Robert Kraus, Jr., has opened offices at Marshfield in the Deming 



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