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which confronted the stave manufacturer, but that during the past few years 

 the rates have graduaiiy advanced, untii niiw it is next to impossible for 

 Arkansas manufacturers to compete with stayo manufacturers in adjoining 

 states. He suggested as the only remedy for this evil, which is doing more 

 than all else to render unprofitable the stave and heading manufacturing 

 business in Arkansas, a concerted action on the part of all the manufac- 

 turers to secure better rate's in this state. After a full discussion it was 

 decided to hold another meeting at a near date In the future for the pur- 

 pose of adopting some definite method of going about the matter of securing 

 this consideration. 



The Globe Cooperage Company, which was organized in Fort Smith, on 

 November 11, filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state on 

 November 13, showing a capital stock of .$10,000.00. fully paid up, and the 

 following officers and incorporators : Officers. Lewis Friedman, president ; 

 L. P. Mathews, vice-president ; and .John W. Howell, secretary and treas- 

 urer : incorporators, in addition to the above named, Leah Friedman and 

 Reglna Mathew.s. The new company has taken over the cooperage and stave 

 plant formerly owned and operated by Mathews & Son. 



The Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company, which owns and operates mills 

 at Truman and Augusta, .\rk., will soon begin work on the erection of a new 

 mill at Truman, which will cost In the neighborhood of $125,000.00. F, S. 

 Chariot of St. Louis, president of the company, is now in Truman looking 

 after the final adoption of the plans for the new plant. The new mill is to 

 be completed and ready for operation by April 1. 1916, and will have a 

 daily capacity of 70,000 feet. This is considerably larger than either of 

 the two plants now owned and operated by the company, the larger one of 

 the two now in use having a daily capacity of 50,000 feet. 



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The Wisconsin Railroad Commission, on application of the Connor 

 Lumber Company of Marshfleld and Laona, has ordered a reduction of 

 rates on flooring and shingles on the Laona & Northern railroad and the 

 Soo Line, of from 10 to S cents per hundred within certain distances 

 in northern Wisconsin. It also ordered the roads to reduce switching 

 charges to .$1 per loaded car between the station of Snyders on the 

 Laona & Northern road to the junction with the Chicago & Northwestern 

 road. 



The large sawmill of the J. S. Stearns Lumber Company at Odanah, 

 Wis., has closed down for a time, while the plant is being overhauled in 

 various departments. 



Manitowoc, Wis., Is to be one of the leading centers of manufacture 

 for the American Seating Company, as the result of action taken by the 

 company in closing down its plant at EulTalo, N. Y., and moving most 

 of the equipment to the plant at Manitowoc. A large addition to the 

 Manitowoc establishment was erected some time ago, so there is ample 

 opportunity for handling the business formerly received at Buffalo. The 

 new addition is 36x54 feet in dimensions, two stories high and fur- 

 nishes 14,000 square feet of additional floor space. 



The sale of more than 100.000,000 feet of timber on the Bad river 

 reservation in Wisconsin will be held on December 16, according to ;jin 

 announcement from Ashland, Wis. Bids are now being received. It is 

 said that forty per cent of the timber to be sold consists of hemlock, 

 twenty-flve per cent white and Norway pine and the remainder is bass- 

 wood, birch, maple and other lines of hardwood. The timber must be 

 removed prior to June 1, 1924. It Is expected that the company now cut- 

 ting timber on the reservation will secure the contract, as it is in the 

 best position to htandle the work. 



The chair factory of George Spratt & Co., Sheboygan, Wis., is oper- 

 ating eleven hours a day, in the effort to keep up with the rush of orders 

 which It Is receiving. During October the Spratt concern made the 

 largest shipments of any month during its history. Most of the chair 

 mauut'acturing concerns of Slieboygan are exceptionally busy. 



An interesting experiment in wood paving is being worked out in Mil- 

 waukee by F. G. Simmons, public works commissioner. In a strip of 

 paving, laid on the south end of the First avenue viaduct six months ago, 

 the experiment was made of placing a narrow strip of lath between the 

 rows of paving blocks to hold them slightly apart, the idea being to 

 provide footholds for horses and overcome the objection sometimes made 

 against creosote block paving that it is liable to be slippery, especially 

 on grades. The blocks have been worn on the surface during the six 

 months that they have been laid, but the ruts are not deep enough to 

 make the street rough for travel and Commissioner Simmons believes that 

 the pavement will not get in any worse condition than it Is at the 

 present time. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in the federal court 

 in Milwaukee on November 19 against the Racine Stool Manufacturing 

 Company, Racine, Wis., one of the largest concerns of its kind in this 

 part of the country. The petitioning creditors and their claims, consist- 

 ing entirely of promissory notes, include : Roddis Lumber & Veneer 

 Company, Marshfleld, Wis.. S71o.06 ; Red River Lumber Company, Craw- 

 fordsvilie. Ind., $233.60 ; Churchill-Mllton Lumber Company. Louisville, 

 Ky., $218.99. .Tames G. Bennett, connected with the Racine concern, 

 has been appointed custodian by the court. The company's financial 

 trouble started with an Involuntary petition filed in Milwaukee recently 

 against Owen W. Owen, an official of the stool company, who was alleged 

 to have been responsible to the now defunct Commercial & Savings Bank 

 of Racine for $46,000 in promissory notes. 



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