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freight nito advaiico was submitted, hut after loiislderable discussion 

 aetlou on the report was postponed until a later nieetlnR. 



W. W. Dings of the tiaretson-Cri'ason Lumber Company Is out West 

 on a selling trip. lie spent several days In Kansas City and then went 

 to Denver. Before leaving the city ho stated there was a fair volume 

 of business being done, but hardly as nuub as there would be had the 

 weather been pleasant. Their mills, with the exception of the one at 

 Wassou, .\rk., were running all right. Wet weather at the Wasson mill 

 prevented logging and it had to close down until the woods dried out so 

 they could get logs. 



The C. F. Llebke Hardwood Mill & Lumber Company Is running right 

 along sawing timber. It Is getting In logs by rail almost every day and is 

 sawing them as fast as possible in order to fill the big lot of orders 

 It has on Its books. The company has enough now to last it for several 

 weeks. 



Henry Boeckeler of the Boeckeler Lumber Company reports quite a lively 

 trade at the yard. The company has a number of big orders, one of them 

 calling for 700.000 feet and another for 400,000 feet. Those, with a big 

 order obtained by Mr. Boeckeler when he was over In Ohio a short time 

 ago. which amounted to 1,100.000 feet, is keeping it busy. William Boeck- 

 eler. who has been at French Lick Springs for the past two weeks, is 

 home feeling much better than he did. 



E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the Lothman Cypress Company, has 

 been at home on the sick list for several days. On his way home from the 

 Central Iowa Retail Lumber Dealers' Association meeting at Des Moines, 

 his train was held up by a big snowdrift and he was tied up for a couple 

 of days. He caught a severe cold, which resulted in his being compelled 

 to give up business tintll he recovered. 



Thomas E. Powe of the Powe Lumber Company, who has been in the 

 South on a pleasure trip for several weeks, is back home. He said he 

 found conditions much better than he expected. He is looking for a lively 

 spring trade as soon as the weather clears up and building operations 

 can commence. 



.lohn F^ Rutherford, son of the late John F. Rutherford of the old 

 Bluff City Lumber Company, Pine Bluff, .Vrk., is associated with the R. 

 M. Morris Lumber Company of this city as a salesman. 



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The Pekin Stave Mill ;it Pckin, a small town on the Jonesboro. Lake 

 City & Eastern Railroad, near Jonesboro, Ark., was destroyed by fire on 

 March 10. The loss was about .$4,000, with no insurance. The fire is 

 supposed to have been caused by a spark from the smokestack. This 

 plant employed about forty-five men. The plant will likely be rebuilt. 



The Cotton Plant Handle Company of Cotton Plant, Ark., filed articles 

 of incorporation with the secretary of state of .\rkausas on March 14. 

 The authorized capital stock of the company is $6,000. 



On March i;i articles of incorporation were filed in the office of secre- 

 tary of state by the Mountain Creek Timber Company of St. Paul. The 

 incorporators of the new company are L. P. Matthews, Charles Gilstrap 

 and S. J. Campbell. The capital stock is placed at .$4,000. 



The Whelen Land Company, with a capital stock of $o0,000, and the 

 Whelen Lumber Company, with a capital stock of $10,000, filed articles 

 of incorporation with the secretary of state on March 12. Moses Stener 

 is president of the land company and Z. D. Sparkman is president of the 

 lumber company. 



Two trees of unusual size were cut on the land belonging to J. D. 

 Reynolds' near Camden, Ark., last week. One, a gum, scaled 0,300 feet, 

 iiwl the other, a white oak, scaled .'i.SOO feet. Mr. Reynolds is a timber 

 lalir and real estate man of Camden. 



■I. A. Reynolds, who for the past seven years has operated a Bhlngle 



iiill in the vicinity of Perry, Ark., is moving his plant to Sherrill, Ark. 



Mr. Reynolds recently purchased a large tract of cypress timber near 



>i •irill and will manufacture the same into shingles. It Is estimated that 



amount of timber standing on the land purchased will be sufficient to 



Mr. Reynolds' plant for a period of six years. 



ij. L. Goodwin of Greensboro, Pa., has recently bought 15,069 acres of 

 timberland in White county. Arkansas, lying along the banks of the 

 White river. The purchase price was Jl.'il.ooo. The land is covered with 

 •'iini. red oak, white oak, cypress and hickory timber. 



1:1 Huff, who has been buying walnut logs in the vicinity of Norfolk, 

 •lie upper North Fork river, for the past year, recently sustained a 



.re loss. While attempting to drive several hundred logs down the 

 river the drive was caught In a big rise and the logs scattered along the 

 river and caught on shoals and islands. The logs in the drive were 

 very valuable and, although they can all he recovered, the expense to Mr. 

 Huff will be great. 



The Presoott Stave and Heading Company Is moving Its plant from 

 Prcacott. Ark., to Dearborn, Tex., where the company has recently pur- 

 chased 50,000,000 feet of white oak timber. S. W. I-'oster is manager of 

 the company and will move his family to Texas. 



The Kennedy Heading Company is preparing a right of way for the 

 building of a spur of the Pine Bluff & .\rkansas River Railroad from 

 Lankford to Its plant near Ilagler. This line will pass through a very 

 heavily timbered hardwood belt. 



The Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company of Dermott Is planning n 

 flve-mlle road In Clilcot county to connect with the Iron Moiintnin nt 

 Chicot. The material for operating the road has been leased from the 

 Iron Mountain. 



The Crocker Chair Company .>! Sh.i..,.vi;an has lilrd an a ndnient to Its 



articles of Incorporation Incrinsing its capital stock from $500,000 to 

 $1,000,000. According to E. A. Zundel of the firm, no immediate changes 

 or enlargements are contemplated and the Increase Is merely in the 

 course of regular business. 



.V new woodworking plant is to he added to the industries of Grand 

 Rapids, Wis. The Weinberg Construction Company of that city Is con- 

 templating erecting a plant for the manufacture of sash, doors and 

 interior finishing goods. A site has been selected on the Soo line for a 

 $25,000 factory. 



Several additions have been made by the C. D. Clarke Lumber Company 

 of .Merrill which will result in the further expansion of Us business. In 

 addition to erecting enclosed sheds, which also contain comfortable work- 

 rooms, a planing mill has been installed and equipped with a rip saw, 

 matcher, sander and other machinery. This concern is finding a ready 

 market for quarter-sawed oak table tops and legs and like products. The 

 Clarke lumber pller, an invention of Mr. Clark, is also still being manu- 

 I'actured. 



With the completion of the installation of a new engine and boiler, the 

 Brllllon Lumber Company of Brillion has started Sawing operations at 

 its mill in that city. A large supply of logs is on hand in the yards 

 and will keep the mill running for some time. 



Business men of Chippewa Falls are using their best endeavors and 

 influence to secure the rebuilding of one of its largest Industries, the plant 

 of the Northwood Furniture Company, destroyed by fire February 26. Ac- 

 cording to J. E. Poznanski. secretary and treasurer of the concern, it is 

 very likely that the plant will be rebuilt on the same site. Definite action, 

 however, will not be taken until the meeting of the directors as soon as 

 the insurance adjustment has been made. The loss of the plant was in 

 I bo neighborhood of .$65,000, on which there was a blanket insurance of 

 eighty per cent. 



The Capitol City Lumber Company has filed articles of Incorporation 

 with the secretary of state. It will establish offices at South Madison. The 

 capital stock is $25,000, and the incorporators are A. G. Banting of Madi- 

 .son, D. E. Kelley and G. I. O. Banting of Stoughton. 



Fire caused a loss of $30,000 on March 11. when flames destroyed the 

 roundhouse, iiiachiuf ami blacksmith shops and water tank of the Superior 



(Leading Manufacturers 



MILLER LUMBER 



Marianna, Arkansas 



CO. 



We offer for shipment during the next six 

 months, at the rate of a car or t'wo per 

 week, 25 to 50 cars No. 1 and No. 2 Common 

 Gum SIS 9/16" thick. We are also in posi- 

 tion to furnish for prompt shipment 4 4 to 

 8/4 1st & 2nd and No. 1 Common Red Gum. 



YOUR INQUIRIES SOLICITED 



also manufacture other bard- 



Our Corps of Inspectors 



Intelligent! Highly Trained! 



Conscientious! 



is assurance that you will get 

 what your order calls for 

 when you buy Gum from us 



Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company 



Cape Girardeau, Missouri 



