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the lower rates will go into effect. Whether they will remain in effect is 

 problematical. 



Shipments of logs will now go under what is Icnown as the mileage scale, 

 as ordered by the commission. Where logs were formerly shipped to Alpena 

 at a rate of $3 a thousand feet for a distance of less than 35 miles and 

 J3.25 for more than 35 miles, the rates will now be as follows : 



Ten miles or under, ?1 per M. 



Twenty to thirty miles, $1.33 per M. 



Thirty to fifty miles, $2 per M. 



Fifty miles and upward, $2.33 per M. 



While the favorable decision has been a long time coming, Michigan 

 lumbermen are nevertheless happy at the victory because there yet remains 

 enough standing timber in that district to make the rate reduction a 

 profitable item. 



Eefunds on State Shipments 



The following letter lias been seirt to the members of the St. Louisa 

 Lumbermen's Kxchange by the Irafflc committee of that organization: 



In response to many requests for information regarding the proper 

 manner for filing claims for collection of excess freight charges collected 

 by the railroads in the state of Missouri while federal injunctions were 

 in force we advise as follows : 



After careful investigation and considerable correspondence with the 

 office of attorney general it has been found that these claims cannot 

 be filed with the masters and excess charges collected unless the party 

 making claims is represented by an attorney. The charges therefore for 

 collecting claims of small amounts would be prohibitive and makes It 

 necessary that these claims be filled with competent parties who are 

 also making collection for other paitles and handling on a percentage 

 basis. This party must be financially responsible and capable of properly 

 handling these claims and must be one who will work in strict harmony 

 with the attorney general in every possible way. 



We have been in communication with several parties who are offering 

 to handle these claims. After investigation we have found that the Cen- 

 tral States Trust Company. r>0(i Central National Bank building, city, 

 is both financially able and competent to handle these claims and is 

 strongly indorsed by the attorney general, who advises that it is working 

 in strict harmony with his department. This company is making collec- 

 tion of these claims on basis of 50 per cent, but has agreed to handle 

 these claims for members of the Lumbermen's Ijxchange on basis of 40 

 per cent of the amount collected. Mr. Campbell Cummings, its attorney, 

 was assistant attorney general under Governor Major when he was 

 attorney general and is thoroughly familiar with the handling of these 

 suits and is no doubt in a belter position than most attorneys to handle 

 them. Contracts should be made direct with the Central States Trust 

 Company, and as it has been advised by your membership in the exchange. 

 you will receive benefit of the 40 per cent basis of collection. 



Before mailing copy of this letter was referred to the attorney general 

 and received his approval. 



Houses Without Nails 



It was not unusual for the early-day pioneers to build log cabins with 

 few or no nails ; but the custom has passed away in practically every part 

 of this country. An interesting case of such houses has been discovered 

 in the Canadian Northwest. An entire village has been so built by 

 Ruthenian immigrants, who brought with them the peculiar building 

 methods of their native country. The houses are of logs, with thatched 

 pitch roofs. Even the doors, which are composed of slender twigs, woven 

 and laced together, swing on home-made hinges and are latched with 

 wooden hasps. The floor is of hewn logs, unnailed, while the roof is a 

 fabric of poles and cross-woven wheat straw, ten inches thick, laid with 

 such skill and care that the builders expect it to last twenty years. 



Certain Centers of Industry 



The centers of certain industries in the United States have been 

 figured out with a fair degree of accuracy, and are shown below : 



The center of population is near Bloomington, near Indianapolis. Ind. 



The jobbing center of the United States is practically in Chicago. 



The manufacturing center is near Fort Wayne, Ind. 



It will be interesting to see how the various centers of distribution 

 and production radiate from the three centers mentioned. 

 . The corn center is in central Illinois. 



The farm center is near Peoria, 111. 



The cattle center is not far from Des Moines. la. 



The wheat center is midway between Sioux City and Des .Moines. la. 



The oat center is about forty miles from Clinton, la. 



The center of copper production is in eastern Montana. 



The center of sheep and wool-raising is in eastern Wyoming. 



The lead and zinc center is about 100 miles southwest of Kansas City. 



The hog center is in west-central Illinois. 



The cotton center is near Yazoo City. Miss. 



Stout Little Wooden Ship 



steel is not substituted for wood in the building of ships for certain 

 purposes. The little vessel in which Sir Ernest Shackleton will shortly 

 sail from England en route to the South Pole is well named the En- 

 durance, for she is built to endure, in sturdy oak and pliant pitchpine. 

 Her "wooden walls" are two feet thick of almost solid oak, and at 

 stem and stern there are five feet of the same tough timber. 



Hutchinson Lumber Co. 



Huntington, W. Va. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



HARDWOOD 



LUMBER 



We Want To Move 



12 cars 4 4 No. 2 Common Oak 

 3 cars 4 4 No. 1 Common Chestnut 



10 cars 4 4 No. 1 Common and 1 and 

 2s Chestnut 

 5 cars 8 4 Sound Wormy Chestnut 



20 cars 4 4 Log Run White Pine 



Peytona Lumber Company 



Huntington West Va. 



-MANUFACTURERS- 

 PLAIN SAWN r^ A I^ 

 RED AND WHITE ^i^l^ 



YELLOW POPLAR 

 BASSWOOD 

 CHESTNUT 



ASH AND MAPLE 



BAND MILLS: 



Huntington, W. Va. Accoville, W. Va. 



