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.$ 100.000. fully subscribed, and with one of the 

 most experienced men in the state hack of it, 

 promises to malte a lively addition to the manu- 

 facturing industries of Jonesljoro. where it is 

 located. The company will manufacture ail 

 kinds of woodenware, ijarticuiarly of the bard- 

 wood variety. The Alfreys are weil-linown in 

 Arliansas hardwood circles. 



Lumbermen all over the state have been 

 much interested in the action of the State Ta.x 

 Commission in boosting up the valuation of their 

 lands. However, very few of them have made 

 strenuous objection, as the "boost" has been 

 general with all kinds of property. The com- 

 mission has just given notice that the as- 

 sessed valuation of timber land in Desha county 

 is to be raised from .$3 to .$."1 per acre. 



.\ccording to a statement filed in the chan- 

 cery court by Gus K. Jones, receiver' for the 

 Ed Murry Lumber Company, the assets of the 

 company amount to .$23,240.12, with liabilities 

 amounting to ?14, 428.81. 



The Rogers Novelty Milling & Manufactur- 

 ing Company, capitalized at $15,000, has been 

 chartered. The compan.v will operate at Rogers, 

 in Benton county. Ira I'rout.v. O. P.. Clark and 

 (!. r. Harbin are the incorporators. 



One of the saddest accidents chronicled in 

 hardwood circles in this state for many a daj- 

 was the tragic death of IL M. Foley, secretary 

 of the H. D. Williams Cooperage Company, on 

 November 23. Mr. Foley, in company with 

 some young ladies, was making a run in a motor 

 car out over a part of the tram-road of the 

 company, near its mammoth plant in .Searcy 

 county, when, in descending an unusually steep 

 grade, he lost control of the car and it dashed 

 down the incline at a fearful speed, throwing 

 him to the ground and mangling his body fear- 

 fully. By a miracle the young ladies were saved, 

 although painfully injured. One of them was 

 able to walk back to the plant and report the 

 accident. The young women were Miss Edith 

 Wilson of St. Louis and Miss Ruby Duncan of 

 Poplar Bluff, Mo. 



The Rex Hoop & Stave Company, a Michigan 

 corporation, has entered the state and will in- 

 vest $25,000 of its capital in plants and holdings 

 at Helena. Phillips count.v, naming Kenneth P. 

 Alderman of Helena as its agent. 



The Diamond Lumber Company, a new com- 

 pany incorporated to operate in the "Pike 

 County Diamond Field" country, has been char- 

 tered. It is capitalized at $25,000, and the 

 incorporators are : O. G. Gardner. Z. A. Cope- 

 land and K. E. Hallman. The company's head- 

 quarters will be at Kimberiy, in Pike county. 



The Luhollis Lumber Company, an Indiana 

 corporation, has entered the state and has in- 

 vested $10,000 of its capital in Arkansas. It 

 will have business headquarters at Brinkley, 

 and Col. John B. Jones of this city has been 

 named state agent. Col. Jones has also been 

 named state agent for the Iowa Land & Lumber 

 Company. 



committee on affiliation with the Chamber of 

 Commerce. The exchange is composed of lead- 

 ing lumbermen and building material men of this 

 district. 



A. B. Cleneay of the Oden-Eliiott Lumber 

 Company of this city, a lumber expert, is now in 

 Mississippi. 



BIRMINGHAM 



The Alabama hardwood marlset continues to 

 show increasing strength, though values are 

 by no means what they should be. The feature 

 of the situatidU right now is that the entire 

 trade is affected by the holiday let-down. Indi- 

 cations are, ho,wever, that after the first of the 

 .year there will be a distinct improvement and 

 that the output will be moved readily. Poplar 

 seems in the best demand, with gum second. 

 Oak is dull. The state's production has not 

 varied to any extent. 



A meeting of interest to hardwood men will 

 be that of the Building Material Men's Ex- 

 change on December 9. At this session a fea- 

 ture will be the appointment of a committee on 

 nominations for the annual elections to be held 

 in January. Report also will be made by the 



yVEW ORLEANS 



Thou,gh the local dealers report a somewhat 

 better inquiry from Europe for hardwoods and 

 other lumber, the situation here has not changed 

 materially in the last fortnight. Exports have 

 not been heavy and buyers are not active in this 

 market. Cypress has strengthened its position 

 somewhat lately, but generally the same condi- 

 tions which applied to hardwoods a fortnight or 

 a month ago prevail today. 



The purchase of two large squares of ground 

 at Carroliton avenue and the New Basin Canal 

 has excited considerable interest here the last 

 week, especially since it is intimated that this 

 will be site for a new lumber mill. The site 

 measures 300x600 feet. R. J. Perkins bought tjc 

 property, but no announcements have been made 

 as to the disposition that will be made of it. 

 Mr. Perliins is the attorney for the men inter- 

 ested in the new corporation. 



Considerable interest attaches to the efforts 

 being made by the Illinois Central railroad to 

 secure space along the river front on which to 

 construct a large wharf for handling lumber 

 shipments. The company wants to extend Stuy- 

 vesant docks and to provide in the extension 

 for a large lumber wharf to be equipped with 

 all the latest and most modern machinery for 

 handling lumber. The matter is still pending. 



It is stated from Lake Charles, La., that 

 Peavey & Burns of Mansfield, La., have pur- 

 chased for $1,000,000 about 20.000 acres of 

 land near Lake Charles and will establish a 

 large double-band and circular mill with a 

 capacity of 100,000 feet daily. 



E. B. and S. B. Lowe of Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 have sold to the International Harvester Com- 

 pany of Chicago 50,000 acres of stumpage in the 

 vicinity of Hattiesburg, Miss. The consideration 

 was $1.5110.000. 



A new handle factory is being erected by A. L. 

 Way of Hammond, La., at Head of Island. 



MILWAUKEE 



Xhe Mississippi liiver Logging Company has 

 been chartered at Chippewa. Falls, Wis., with a 

 capital stock of $34,500. William Irvine, Sam 

 B. Nimmons and E. L. Ainswortii are the incor- 

 porators. 



A third logging and lumber company to oper- 

 ate in Oregon has been organized at Janesville, 

 Wis. The capital stock will be $400,000. held 

 principally by Janesville men. and it will cut 

 340,000,000 feet of standing timber within ten 

 miles of Portland. Four years ago the Forks 

 Lumber Company, capital $100,000, was organ- 

 ized at Janesville and is now cutting 27,000,000 

 feet near Everett, Wash. Last year the Pendle- 

 ton Timber Company, capital $200,000, was 

 formed by Janesville men, to operate on a tract 

 of C,60S acres in British Columbia, near Thun- 

 der Bay, containing about 325,000,000 feet of 

 timber. 



The government sawmill at Neopit, on the 

 Menominee reservation in Wisconsin, will be 

 equipped with another resaw and enlarged to 

 give more room for workmen and thus make the 

 enterprise profitable. A. M. Riley, the new super- 

 intendent, has started things with a rush and 

 means to continue a good pace. His son, also 

 an experienced lumberman, has been placed in 

 charge of the logging on the reservation. Father 

 and son form a good team and there should be 

 no complaint. 



John Rehfeld has been appointed sales man- 



ager for the H. W. Wright Lumber Company of 

 Merrill. Wis. 



The Upham Manufacturing Company of Marsh- 

 field. Wis., is planning to convert its steam power 

 plant to electric and use the individual motor 

 system. Since the sawmill was closed the Upham 

 company has found its fuel bills unprofltably 

 high. The new plant will develop 400 horse- 

 power. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan, 

 Wis., has increased its capital stock from $200,- 

 000 to $500,000. Plans are under way for en- 

 larging the plant, which is already one of the 

 largest of its kind in the West. 



John A. Johnson, for thirty-six years identified 

 with lumbering and logging in the vicinity of 

 Wausan, Wis., succumbed recently to cancer of 

 the stomach. He was born in Sweden in 1845 

 and came to America at the age of twenty-eight. 



The Wohifinger Box & Package Company has 

 been organized at Elmwood, Wis., with a capital 

 of $30,000. The incorporators are John Wohi- 

 finger, C. L. Graves and T. J. Mahon. 



Julius Ewald of Minneapolis contemplates the 

 establishment of a box and veneer factory at 

 Cumberland, Wis. 



Electric operation of sawmills is a success, 

 judging from the results obtained by the Good- 

 year Lumber Company at Tomahawk, Wis. This 

 is the first electrically driven sawmill in the 

 world and has been running only a short time. 



The McAphee Lumber Company of Cayuga, 

 near Glldden. Wis., has started its sawmill. The 

 company purchased the entire cut of the Cayuga 

 Lumber Company and has several thousand feet 

 of logs from its own 1908-9 cut on hand, so the 

 logging operations will be postponed until after 

 January 1. 



Donald McDonald of Newberry, Mich., has 

 been appointed superintendent of logging of the 

 Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mellen, to 

 succeed Al .Stewart, who is now with the Mellen 

 Lumber Company in a similar capacity. 



The Northland Lumber Company of Green Bay, 

 Wis., will cut 15.000,000 feet this year. The 

 mill property has been entirely rebuilt at a cost 

 of about $30,000. Two hundred men will be 

 employed in the different departments. The com- 

 pany has extensive holdings in the upper penin- 

 sula and there is enough timber to operate the 

 mill at Green Bay for twenty years or more. 

 Three camps will be established, with 150 men 

 in each. The company owns ten miles of rail- 

 way and two engines. 



The Peninsular Box & Lumber Company has 

 completed its shipments of box wood from Criv- 

 itz. Wis. The daily output averaged 30,000 feet. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company of Mil- 

 waukee will cut about 18,000,000 feet of lumber 

 at Saxon, Wis. The damage done to its camps 

 on Lake Superior last summer has been repaired 

 and everything is in good running order. The 

 Schroeder sawmill at Ashland has been closed 

 after a cut of 25,000.000 feet. 



The J. S. Stearns Lumber Company of Oda- 

 nah. Wis., will cut 40,000,000 feet this winter. 

 With about 60.000,000 feet of last winter's cut 

 still unsawed the mills in the Lake Superior 

 region will be busy all next summer. 



The Wisconsin Veneer Company of Rhine- 

 lander. Wis., has purchased all the oak timber 

 on the holdings of the Wachsmuth Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Bayfield Mill Company in the vi- 

 cinity of Bayfield. Much of this timber will 

 be cut this winter and shipped to Rhineiander. 



The Diamond Lumber Company of Green Bay, 

 Wis., expects to occupy its new steel sawmill 

 on January 1. The building, costing $80,000, 

 replaces the structure destroyed by fire last 

 summer. It Is perhaps the nearest approach to 

 a fireproof sawmill in the world. 



C. H. Grundy has been appointed receiver for 

 the Marinette, Tomahawk & Western Railway 

 Company on application of the Bradley Com- 

 pany of Tomahawk. Mr. Grundy is superin- 

 tendent of the road. The object of the proceed- 

 ings is not announced. 



