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is devoted very largely to the manufacture of 

 Oak Bill Material 



In fact, we have studied this line of manufacture 

 so thoroughly that we feel confident we can tell 

 you anything you want to know about it. 



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THE LEWIS DOSTER LUMBER CO. 



BLUEFIELD, W. VA. 

 Manufacturers and Wholesalers West Virginia Hardwoods 



Band and Circular mills at Walteville, W, Va. Daily capacity 60,C00'. 



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SBrES DEFA&TMENT 



The A. H. Andrews Co. 



115-117 S. Wabash Avenue 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



manager for the Chess & Wymond Stave Company of Louisville, Ky. 

 Mountain View will be tlse headquarters for the company in Arkansas. 

 The Chess & Wymond company owns about 50,000,000 feet of white oak 

 timber in Arkansas, located principally iu the northwestern part of the 

 state. The company owns and operates eight mills and a finishing" plant in. 

 Arkansas. Five of the mills are located in tbe Ozark mountains, in Stone, 

 Baxter and Searcy counties. Three of the mills are located iu the Boston 

 mountains in Newton county. The finishing plant is located at Keusett. 

 Ark., about fifty miles north of Little Uock on the Iron Mountain railroad- 

 Tbe company is preparing to double the capacity of the finishing plants 

 with a view to finishing up the staves before sliipping them to Louisville^ 



FL G. Hergott, secretary, and W. R, Foley, general manager, of the 

 Pekin Cooperage Company of Pckin, 111., have recently visited the com,- 

 pany's plants in Arkansas and made examinations into tbe company's 

 holdings and affairs. The company owns and controls a vast amount of 

 hardwood timber in the state, and has a large number of stave mills and 

 cooperage plants. Under the existing conditions, Mr. Hergott and Mr. 

 Foley appeared fairly well pleased with the company's affairs in Arkansas. 



II. C. Huey. who for the past several years has served as assistani: 

 supervisor of tbe Ozark National Forest in this state, has been transferred 

 to tbe Arkansas National Forest, also in this state, where he will hold a 

 similar position. Mr. Iluey has been employed in the Ozark forest since 

 it was sot apart by Congress in 1908. 



Tbe business men of Shirley, Ark., have organized themselves into a 

 Business Men's Club which will have as one of its chief objects the 

 getting of hardwood plants to locate at that place by offering special 

 inducements to the owners. 



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Tbe Heineman LumbeT Company of Merrill has completed the survey 

 for about five miles of logging road In Lincoln county, which will tap' 

 a portion of the twenty-year run of timber which tbe company holds. 

 Announcoment has been made that the Ileineman mill will operate full 

 blast this season. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan has announced that It will 

 make Us normal cut of logs this winter. The company now has a large 

 (TOW of men at work on Its timber near Elton in I^anglade county. 



Harry K. Sievwrigbt, formerly of Stevens Point, has organized the Siev- 

 wright Lumber Company in that city with headquarters at 1102 Elli» 

 street. Hardwood, hemlock, pine and a general line of lumber products 

 will bo bandUHl. 



Much of the valuable timber near Crandon, owned by the Holt Lum- 

 ber Company and the Oconto Company will be opened up by tbe build- 

 ing of the Kiugston-Crandon line by the Chicago & Northwestern. The 

 company bas awarded a contract to the Cleary, White & Duffy Company 

 for laying the line and work will start at once. It is expected that 

 rivp miles will 1)0 laid this fall. The timber to be made more accessible- 

 will bf sawed at Oconto. 



The Albrecht Company of Kewaunee is erecting a large storage shed 

 and warehouse near its planing mill. The- structure will be 50x100 feet 

 in dimensions. 



The plant of the Glidden Manufacturing Company at Glidden was 

 completely destroj-ed by fire recently. Tbe loss is estimated at $30,000, 

 partly covered by Insuraute of $15,000. It is not known whether or not 

 the plant will be rebuilt. 



Mrs. Valeria Adjsms Knapp, widow of John H. Knapp, one of the 

 founders of Knapp, Stout & Company, one of the pioneer lumber con- 

 corns of Menomonie, Wis., died on October 25 at the age of eighty-four' 

 years. 



Hon. George C. Jones, pioneer lumber land and mJne owner with proi>- 

 orties in Wisconsin, Michigan and Oregon, dropped dead at his home in 

 Appleton on October 22 at the ago of eighty-five years. 



Superintendent Nicholson and a crew of about fifty men arc estimating 

 the timber on tbe Menominee Indian reservation at Shawano. It Is ex- 

 pected that the work will require about six months' time. Tlie gov- 

 ernment some time ago set aside $10,000 for tbe work. 



The city authorities at Marshfield are endeavoring to secure the loca- 

 tion of the proposed new plant of the Rib Lake Lumber Company, whose 

 mill at Rib Laike was destroyed by fire several months ago. It is under- 

 sto*)d that the old Upham sawmill at Marshfield would be utilized. 



Tbe F. W. Buswell Lumber Company of Wausau is preparing to- dis- 

 solve, and tbe business is now being Uquidatod by F. W. Buswell who is 

 about to retire. Mr. Buswell bas been engaged in the lumber business 

 for thirty-three years, thirteen of which he served as president -of the 

 BusWell concern, 



Tbe Merchants" & Manufacturei*s* Association of Milwaukee has -ce- 

 ceived copies of tbe orders from Greece for more than 40,000 cubic feet 

 of fir logs that have been forwarded through tbe American consiil at 

 -Vtbens and distributed by the Department of Commerce at Washing- 

 ton. Elm staves for raisin and currant barrels, for which there Is Ji 

 great demand throughout southeastern Europe, also are sought in 

 Wisconsin. 



During the twenty-eight montlis of experience up to January 1, 1014. 

 under tbe Wisconsin workmen's compensation law, a total of $390,- 

 354.73 bas breu paid to working men of Wisconsin or their dependents. 

 This sum represents the amount paid in- 6,804 cases,, most of- which 

 wore settled amicably between employers and employes without the- aid 



