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lliiKlifs UrotluTs' (."Dniiiiiiiy at liloonilnctoii. to comluct u y.-iiLTal luiiilier 

 liiisliiess. The compaDy tins jr.d.iioo lapltnl. 



With an authorized capltallznthin of Iflo.oOO, the Frnutz Lumber Com- 

 pany has been orRanlzed and Incorporati'd nt North Manchester by Ezra 

 I'rautz, Lyman I'hllUps and Ludna Frantz. 



!<afoblowers made an uiisu< oessful effort to open the safe of the .Tos. 

 Kuhn Lumber Company on the night of Marih 1 and left behind a n.'t 

 eompllmeiitluR the company on the strength of the safe. 



John Ott, eighty-nine years old and the founder of the L. W. Ott Manu 

 facturlng Company of this city, died recently. lie Is survived by four 

 children. 



Wood trestles and brackets will be manufactured by the newly organ- 

 ized Pepin's E.\tenslble Trestle and Jack Knife Bracket Company at East 

 Chicago. The company has a Jo.OOO capital and is backed by J. C. Peplu. 

 J. N. Pepin and !■'. U. Schaaf. 



Weather conditions during February are held responsible for the large 

 decrease In building operations, 144 |)ermlts, with an aggregate valuation 

 of t257,014 having been issued, as compared with yn permits, aggregating 

 ?4Tl).U5:i in I'Vbruary. l'Ji:>. 



With ?:!()0.(HIO capital the Interstate .\utomobile Company has been or 

 gaulzed and incor|)orated, to operate the old Interstate automobile plant 

 at Muncie, recently purchased from the trustee in bankruptcy. 



Interests represented by O. U. Ilaskett have bought the north plant and 

 yard of the Urannum-Keene Lumber Company at the L. E. & W. railway 

 tracks and Twenty-tifth street, and a modern planing mill is to be erected. 

 The O. 1>. Ilaskett Lumber Company has been incorporated with $5,000 

 capital. Mr. Ilaskett formerly was vice-president of the Burnet-Lewis 

 Lumber Company. 



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C. I>. Hendrickson. of the C. D. Ilendriekson Lumber Company, denies 

 the recently puldished report that his tirni has withdrawn from business 

 in Arkansas and surrendered its charter in that state. lie says that, 

 on the contrary, the firm has only recently completed the installation of 

 a circular mill, with capacity of 30,000 feet, at Democrat, Ark., and that, 

 instead of retiring, it is just beginning to operate to good advantage in 

 Arkansas. The headquarters of the company are at Memphis. 



Lee Wil.son & Co., the Three States Lumber ComiJany, the Chapmau- 

 Dewey Lumber t'ompany, the Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, and other 

 lumber firms having timberland holdings in the so-called "sunk lands" 

 of .\rkansas will be adversely affected by the recent decision of Judge 

 Tiieber of the I'nited States District Court at Little Rock, to the effect 

 that the government has never surrendered title to these lands. The 

 decision directly involved only 900 acres but it is pointed out that there 

 are about 120,000 acres that will be affected by this decision which was 

 rendered in the case of Lee Wilson & Co. vs. the United States. It Is 

 suggested that the present owners of these lands not only have a title 

 .iUeged to be imperfect, but that they may find themselves the object of 

 litigation to recover the value of timber removed during the period of 

 Iheir occupancy of the property in question. 



The new mill of the Saline River Hardwood Company at Pine Bluff. 

 .\rk., has been placed in operation. This company is one of the subsid- 

 iaries of the Arkansas Short Leaf Lumber Company, which is In turn 

 owned by the Long-Bell Lumber Company, with headquarters at Kansas 

 City, .Mo. 



J. T. Willingham, president of the Memphis Coffin Company, and otlnrs 

 identilled with manufacturing enterprises, including lumber and wood 

 w<-rking industries, are cooperating with the authorities regarding thr 

 passage of an employers' liability law that will be satisfactory to all 

 interests concerned. The Lumbermen's Club has already approved thi' 

 idea of the passage of a measure along this line. The subject, however. 

 is being actively handled by the Memphis Manufacturers' Association as 

 well as the Tennessee Manufacturers' Association, with which the former 

 is identified. 



The BeilKr.-ide Lumber Company has recently removed its sawmill and 

 loBging equipment from Belzoni. .^liss., where It has been operated for 

 several years, to Isola, Miss. The firm has cut out all of its timber at 

 the former point and has removed to the latter, as it owns a large tract 

 of timber contiguous to that town. The eai)aclty of the mill has been 

 increased to 00,000 feet in the removal, and the mill Is now being oiJerated 

 on full time. It is estimated that it has enough timber in siglit to enable 

 It to run for from three to five years. A force of men Is still employed 

 at Belzoni to clean up the lumber left on the yards there, but these men 

 will be removed later to Isola. The headquarters of the company are iu 

 -Memphis, with J. W. McClure in charge of the offices. 



Kates on export shipments of lumber from American ports to Ham 

 burg, Germany, have been reduced two cents per hunilred pounds recently 

 iind exporters here are rather Inclined to the view tliat there will be still 

 other decreases because there is not a large amount of lumber or other 

 tonnage being ottered the steamship companies Just now. Cotton rates 

 are declining and the belief is entertained that rates on lumber, too, will 

 work lower. Export lumber business is failing to increase but It is 

 pointed out that financial conditions abroad are improving, and exi)orters 

 here regard this as a distinctly favorable development. The worst evil 

 of whli-h exporters here comi)laln is the consigning of lumber which is 

 arriving In considerable quantity iihroad luid which Is seriously alTectlng 



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