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Determined protests were lodged at the State Department last 

 week in behalf of the H. Weston Lumber Company of Logtown, 

 Miss. This company owns extensive timber tracts in Chihuahua, 

 Mexico, and has been advised that timber stealing on a large scale 

 is in progress on its property. The prostration of the civil author- 

 ity in Chihuahua makes appeal for police protection impossible. The 

 State Department is asked to request the military element in power 

 there to furnish protection to the American holdings. The State 

 Department is inclined to doubt that any important stealing of 

 timber is in progress, due to the difficulties, of securing a market. 

 The Weston company acknowledges that its information is not di- 

 rect, as its representatives were forced to leave Mexico a year or 

 more ago. The State Department has instructed American consuls to 

 call the matter to the attention of General Villa. 



Carriers have been ordered by the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission to' paj' reparation to lumber companies in the following 

 cases: .J. W. Turnbull Lumber Company versus the Atlantic Coast 

 Line; Eawlinson Lumber Company versus W^esteru Eailway of Ala- 

 bama; Lathrop Lumber Company versus Mobile and Ohio; Krauss 

 Bros. Lumber Comiiany versus Yazoo & Mississippi Valley; W. A. 

 Davis Lumber Comijany versus St. Louis, Iron Mountain and South 

 ern : Mingo Lumber Company versus Norfolk & Western; Consoliil 

 ated Lumber Companj- versus Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. 

 Marie Eailway ; Trexler Lumber Company versus Illinois Central ; 

 Wm. B. Lukens Lumber Company versus Florida Central ; Cyrus C. 

 Warren versus New Orleans & Great Northern ; Eoddis Lumber and 

 Veneer Company versus Minneajjolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie; 

 J. W. Darling Lumber Company versus Louisiana Eailway and 

 Navigation Company; Kraetzcr-Cured Lumber Company versus Ya 

 zoo & Mississippi Valley ; Snow Lumber Company versus Southern 

 Eaihvay; Trexler Lumber Company versus Philadelphia & Beading; 

 Vestal Lumber Company versus Seaboard Air Line; Elm City Lum- 

 ber Company versus Atlantic Coast Line; Berthold & Jennings Lum- 

 ber Company versus Illinois Central ; United Lumber Company ver- 

 sus Baltimore & Ohio; Bolz-McBride Cooperage Company versus 

 Mississippi Valley Eailway Comjjany; Wm. Schuc-tte & Co., versus 

 Illinois C«>ntral ; Willamette Box and Lumber Company versus South- 

 ern Pacific ; Ohio Valley Tic Company versus Lousville & Nash- 

 ville; Frost-Johnson Lumber Company versus Kansas City Southern; 

 Houston Bros, versus Illinois Central; Paine Lumber Company ver- 

 sus Cincinnati, Saginaw & Mackinac. 



Applications by carriers to be relieved of the provisions of the 

 fourth section restrictions with regard to rough, green fir lumber 

 in Oregon and California have been denied. 



The case of the Davis Brothers Lumber Company versus the Chi- 

 cago, Eock Island & Pacific was dismissed last week. The case 

 of the Meeds Lumber Company versus the Alabama Central was 

 ordered reopened. 



Eates on lumber and forest products from Wisconsin points to 

 various destinations within the city limits of Chicago have been at 

 tacked by the J. S. Stearns Lumber Company of Chicago and the 

 A. S. Pierce Lumber Company of Ehiuelander, Wis. These com- 

 panies declare that any rate in excess of ten cents from certain points 

 on the Chicago & Northwestern is unreasonable. Heavy reparation 

 is asked. 



A brief has been submitted by the Louisville & Nashville in the 

 case brought against it by the Powell-Myers Lumber Company of 

 South Bend, Ind. The case involves the question of through rates 

 on lumber for reconsignment between Alabama producing points and 

 middle western destinations. 



Overcharges said to have been made by the Minneapolis, St. Paul 

 & Sault Ste. Marie form the basis of a complaint registered by the 

 Bradley Timber and Eailway Supply Company of Duluth. 

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The case of the Des Moines Sawmill Company versus the Minne- 

 apolis & St. Louis Eailway will be heard February 25 in Des Moines 

 by Examiner J. E. Smith. 



Commissioner Daniels has set March 23 as the date on which he 

 will hear evidence in the important matter on stoppage of cars in 

 transit to complete loading or to unload partially. The hearings 

 will be held in Chicago. 



Proposed increases of rates on various kinds of lumber in car- 

 loads from southern producing points to Ohio river crossings, St. 

 Louis, and to points beyond, have been suspended until July 28. The 

 same order covers lumber traffic originating in Missouri and Ar- 

 kansas and destined to gulf ports. The carriers designated October 

 1, 1914, as the date on which the new rates were to become ef- 

 fective. The commission suspeucled the r&tes until January 28 

 for investigation. As this has not been completed, the su.spension 

 date has been advanced to July 28. 



In view of the fact that the Ashley, Drew & Northern Railroad has 

 been divorced from the Crossett Lumber Company of Crossett, Ark., 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered that it is not to be 

 considered longer as a tap line. The railroad is being operated by the 

 Arkansas, Louisiana & Gulf Eailroad Company which has taken the 

 road over on a lease with an option to jjurehase. None of the 

 revenue now being earneil by the railroad is going directly or indi- 

 rectly to the stockholders of the Crossett Lumber Company. 



Eates between West Virginia producing points and stations on the 

 Pennsylvania railroad are attacked in a claim presented by the Forest 

 Lumber Company of Pittsburgh against the Morgantown & King- 

 wood Eailroad et al. Eeparation also is asked on numerous ship- 

 ments that have moved. 



Weekly Wages on Sawmills 



Tlie Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dejiartment of Labor, has pub- 

 lished a bulletin of 160 j)ages dealing with wages in different fields 

 of the lumbering business. Most of the figures are for the years 

 1912 and 1913, but some go back to 1907, and a few are much 

 older. The figures are compiled in tables and are then manipulated 

 in all the ways known to the arithmetic laws of permutation, to show 

 all ])ereentages and other changes that may be rung on the com- 

 binations. The nub of the statistics relating to sawmill wages for 

 1912 and 1913 is given in the following summary: 



Occupation. Wi'ckly wagps 1912. Weekly wages 1913. 



Doggers $11.06 $11.22 



Edgermen 1 j.97 16.28 



Laborers 10.0."! 10.40 



Machine Feeders 11.07 11. .34 



Band Sawyers 33.47 .iS.OO 



Circular Sawyers 31.03 31.71 



Gang Sawyers 18.86 19.02 



Uesiiwyors 15.41 l.'i.77 



Settors 15.29 1.").71 



Trhnmer Operators 12.73 13.20 



It may here be seen that wages have shown a slight tendency to 

 increase. Figures which go further back indicate a like tendency 

 generally since 1908, but during 1907 wages were frequently higher 

 than in any succeeding year. 



Wages for furniture makers, based on general averages, are given 

 for the two years: 



1912. 1913. 



CaMnot Makers $13.20 $13.30 



Hand Carvers 17.44 . 17.41 



Chair Assemblers 11.10 11.32 



Finishers 11.44 11.81 



Marhlno Hands '. 12.30 1 2.50 



Upholsterers 16.33 lii.42 



VoniM-rers 12.36 1 2.45 



