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a numhor of profitable side-lines of its organization in the tropics. For some 

 time it has been bringing in chicle, used in making chewing gum, and now 

 it has started to import coffee from Central America. The coffee business 

 has been started very promisingly, and a good demand has already been 

 stirred up in this territory. 



=-< ARKANSAS >•= 



The hai'dwood mills at Dermott, Ark., are preparing to run on a day 

 and nigbt schedule in the near tuture, or as soon as the raw stock can be 

 placed un the yards. These mills are now operating on a ten-hour schedule. 

 The increase in rime and force is occasioned by the large orders recently 

 received for wagon stock for probable use by the warring nations of Europe. 



Davis & Hippie, lumber manufacturers of Evansville, Ind., have removed 

 their ollice efjuipment and mill to Lake Village, Ark., where a large tract 

 of timberland was recently purchased. A. O. Davis will manage the new 

 plant, and a large force of men will be employed at the mill and in get- 

 ting the timber from the forests. 



After being idle for more than a year the big band mill of the Chapman 

 & Dewey Lumber Company at Marked Tree resumed operations again last 

 week. The box factory, the Pierce hardwood mill, the Turner handle fac- 

 tory and the Grismore-Hizman stave mill at Marked Tree are now running 

 on full schedules. 



Clem lOndicott of Shirley, Ark., has been in Guion, Ark., for several days 

 buying walnut timber for export. He is buying the timber in the trees, 

 having it cut and hauled to the mills at Guion, where it is manufactured 

 according to specifications for shipping. lie has succeeded in getting a large 

 quantity of choice walnut timber, for which a good price was paid. 



The Arkadelphia Milling Company of Arkadelphla has recently installed 

 a new stave manufacturing machine. Tliis was made necessary by reason 

 of the unusually good demand which that company has enjoyed of late. The 

 timber owners and farmers of the adjoining country have also prolited by 

 the demand and are reaping good returns for white and red oak bolts. 



Another timber sale from the Ozark National I<'orest in the Hasting Creek 

 country near Mountain View, Ark., will soon be advertised by the Forest 

 Service. The sale will comprise 500,000 feet of white oak. 



According to Mack's labor agency of this city the demand for men to 

 work in lumber mills, especially hardwood mills, has increased materially 

 during the past thirty days. The agency also predicts even a greater 

 demand. 



Speice Brothers of Pocahontas, Ark., are considering a proposition to 

 remove their plant to Jonesboro, Ark., and last week spent some time look- 

 ing over possible sites for location. A committee of men representing the 

 Jonesboro Business Men's League has had the matter up with the owners 

 of the plant, and has made a proposition upon which some action will be 

 taken in a few days. Speice Brothers manufacture slack barrel hoops. 



The Fislier Vehicle Woodstock and Lumber Company of lOrin, Ark., has 

 submitted a proposition to the Little Itock Chamber of Commerce whereby the 

 company will remove its plant to Little Rock and employ at least thirty or 

 forty- men from the start, if the Chamber of Commerce will bear the actual ex- 

 pense of moving the plant here, which will amount to some .?2,500. The 

 board of governors of the Chamber has the proposition under advisement, 

 and will announce some action in a short time. The Factoria Land Com- 

 pany has agreed to donate suitable site in the Factoria Addition. 



The plant of the Tyronza Lumber Company, Earie, Ark., was burned on 

 October 12. A high wind was blowing, and within an hour about a million 

 and a half feet of lumber, mostly white oak, was destroyed. In using dyna- 

 mite to prevent further spreading of the flames a spark was thrown 

 upon the residence of G. W. Donahoe, three blocks away, which, together 

 with outbuildings and barn, was burned. At one time it appeared that the 

 entire town might be destined. The fire is supposed to have originated from 

 sparks falling from a logging engine. 



The H. D. Williams Cooperage Company was placed in the hands of Mr. 

 Dinsmore, as receiver for the Searcy chancery court, at Marshall, Ark., sev- 

 eral days ago. Later a petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United States 

 district court, and Mr. Dinsmore was continued as receiver. His bond as 

 trustee was fixed at $'25,000 and he will continue to operate the plant as he 

 has dont> since Iteing appointed receiviu-. 



=-< MILWAUKEE >-= 



The Pulley Grip Company of Milwaukee, organized to manufacture an 

 industrial chemical preparation to minimize belt slipping, has been incorpo- 

 rated with a capital stock of $2,500 by Robert B. Henning, H. H. Piltz and 

 E. A. Boettchcr. Headquarters have been opened at 1005 Pabst building. 



A sale of considerable interest to wholesalers and jobbers took place 

 recently, when the business of the Oscar A. Anderson Lumber Company, 

 well-known concern of .Tefferson, Wis., w^as sold to the N. J. Braun Lumber 

 Company, which recently disposed of its yards at Eeodsburgh, LaValle and 

 Cazenovia. N. J. Braun will be in charge at Jefferson. 



The Western Lumber Company, a IMinnesota corporation with a capital 

 stock of $.S0,000 and interests of $50,000 in Wisconsin, has filed a statement 

 to transact business in this state. 



The B. Heineman Lumber Company, of Wausau, has closed its mill after 

 a successful season, in which 20,000,000 feet of hardwood and hemlock were 

 cut. The Mohr Lumber Company of Wausau has resumed operations at its 

 sawmill and expects to cut about 6,000,000 feet of hardwood and hemlock 

 during the season. 



It is reported that some of the northern Wisconsin lumber concerns will 



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