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that there are l,5t!l woodworking plants in Arliausas, of which uunibor 

 1,162 are saw and planing mills. 



The report also shows that there are 75,000,000,000 feet of standing 

 timher in Arliansas, and that the annual cut is 2,111,300,000 feet. Of the 

 annual cut 1,246,572,000 is worl;ed into finished products within the bor 

 ders of the state, while the remainder is shipped out as raw material. 



Hardwoods are given considerable promini'nce in the report. Cypress 

 Is now being cut more than any other wood in the state, according to thi' 

 report, and Arliausas ranks first in the annual output of red gum, or 

 satin walnut. Oak has an annual cut of ::loS,5(;G,000 feet ; red gum 

 200,935,000 ; cypress 33,012,000 : cottonwood 54,507.000 ; hickory 45,133,- 

 000 ; elm 13.036,000 ; tupelo 6,084,000 ; sycamore 5,400,000 ; yellow poplar 

 4,484,000 ; basswood 603,000 ; walnut 544,000 ; cherry 332,000 ; birch 13S, 

 000 ; and beech 78,000. 



A report from Norfolk, Ark., is to the effect that the tie market at that 

 place reopened on January 1, after several weeks of closing down. The 

 news was welcomed by hundreds of tiemakcrs who were thrown out of 

 employment when the tie market was closed. 



Articles of incorporation were recently filed with the .secretary of state 

 by the Diamond Hoop Company of Proctor, Ark., showing an authorized 

 capital of $10,000. David L. Walson is president of the new company. 



Three hundred employes of wagon concerns in Fort Smith were reem- 

 ployed on December 26. This re-awakening of the industry at Fort Smith 

 was occasioned by the letting of large contracts from the French govern- 

 ment, according to report. 



In spite of the general depression of conditions over the country since 

 the outbreak of the European war, the H. D. Williams and Pekin cooperage 

 plants at Leslie, Ark., have continued to operate without loss of time, save 

 for holidays and a few breakdowns. 



That the year 1914 showed less loss from fires in forests than any other 

 year for the past decade is the tenor of a report recently sent out from 

 the Ozark national forest reserve in this state. The yearly loss from 

 forest fire damages to property heretofore has been placed at $25,000,000, 

 while the losses of lives have averaged about 70 people per year. This 

 great loss is being gradually reduced as the efficiency of the protection 

 is advancing. 



The Ozark national forest, which is one of the two big forest reserves 

 in Arkansas, furnishes timber for the making of many million staves 

 yearly, as well as timber and lumber for other purposes, only the ripe 

 timber being sold, so as to give way for the oncoming crops. Under the 

 arrangement of thfe Forestry Bureau, twenty-five per cent of the amount 

 for which timber from these forests is sold reverts back to the territory 

 of the reserve, to he used for road and school building. Much improve 

 ment from this source is being seen already in Arkansas, though the r*.'- 

 serves have been in operation only four or five years. 



B. W. Benton was recently appointed receiver for the Big Bayou Lum- 

 ber Company by Chancellor J. M. Elliott of Pine Bluff. The appointment 

 of a receiver was made upon the application of Henry Kruse and R. E. 

 Drake, former president and secretary, respectively, of the company. The 

 company has surrendered its charter. The assets are placed at $30,000, 

 and the necessity for a receiver is attributed to the dull lumber market 

 occasioned by the European war. 



The time for filing exceptions to the report of Special Master Judge 

 J. G. Wallace in the Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt Railroad rate refund 

 cases has been extended to January 11, 1915. The special master's report 

 was filed in the oflice of the United States district court clerk on December 

 2, 1914, and under the chancery rules the exceptions should have been 

 filed within twenty days, but upon application of the railroads and some 

 of the shippers Judge Trieher extended the time for twenty days. 



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Joel W. Bingham, for many years engaged in the lumber business at 

 Ashland and New London, Wis., and lately connected with various im- 

 portant business enterprises in Milwaukee, passed away recently at his 

 home at the age of sixty-nine years. He was a thirty-third degree Mason. 

 Mr. Bingham is survived by a widow and two daughters. 



Fire of unknown origin in the sheds of the Pine Lumber Company, 

 Milwaukee, recently destroyed two structures and 500,000 feet of lumber, 

 causing a loss of $25,000, covered by insurance. 



The Superior Manufacturing Company of Superior, Wis., recently sus- 

 tained a loss of $10,000 when its dry kiln was destroyed by fire. This was 

 the second time this year that the kiln was burned. 



Hans Jacob Anderson, president and principal owner of the Anderson 

 Lumber Company, operating a large woodworking plant, recently dropped 

 dead while walking on the street near his home in Hudson, Wis. Death 

 was caused by heart failure. 



Michael Dalton, president of the Dalton. Lowrie, Wheeler Lumber Com- 

 pany of Superior, Wis., recently died at the home of his brother in 

 Fond du Lac, after an illness of several months. Mr. Dalton was prominent 

 in Superior business circles. 



Logging in Brown County, Wisconsin, at a standstill for many years, will 

 be resumed as the result of the purchase of 160 aci^es of timberland near 

 Plttsfield, Wis., by A. Nicholai of Marshfield. Logging will start at once 

 and mill machinery is on the field to be installed in a new sawmill which 

 will be erected. 



The Racine Carriage Company has been incorporated at Racine, Wis., 

 with a capital stock of $25,000, representing the merger of the Raclne- 

 Sattley Company and the co-partnership of the Richardson-Kennedy Com- 



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