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etc. This is particularly <the report tbat comes 

 from the transportation department of the Rock 

 Island lines. 



From the lumber trade there is also a most 

 favorable comment, and the pessimistic note 

 of a few months ago has entirely disappeared. 



There has also been an unusually large num- 

 ber of lumber companies chartered within the 

 last few weeks, indicating unusual activity in all 

 lines throughout the state. Among the latest 

 is the Home Lumber Company of Prescott, capi- 

 tal'zed at JIS.OOO, incorporated by W. A. 

 Hatley, president ; T. H. Duke, vice-president ; 

 J. E. Williams, secretary-treasurer. This com- 

 pany will establish and operate both a sawmill 

 and planer at Prescott. 



The Blythesville Lumber Company, capitalized 

 at .f25,000, all subscribed, is another of the 

 husky lumber concerns to organize for opera- 

 tions in eastern Arkansas. The incorporators 

 include W. W. Holipeter, president ; J. H. Elkins, 

 vice-president ; A. L. Sanders, treasurer ; R. L. 

 Morris, .secretary : .1. C. Blair and T. B. Morris. 



The Southwest Manufacturing Company of Lit- 

 tle Rock, was recently granted a charter. It is 

 capitalized at $25,000, and will do a general 

 saw milling business . Incorporators include C. 

 .\. Sawyer, M. G. Lapierre, A. J. Hale and 

 Alvin Boss. 



C. T. Alleles of the Abeles Lumber Company 

 of this city, head of the committee pushing the 

 project for a Hoo-Hoo temple for Little Rock, 

 announces that the stock subscriptions from 

 the lumbermen have already exceeded .1!30,000, 

 and that the project is an assured success. The 

 building will be devoted exclusively to lumber 

 company offices, with the exception of the ninth 

 floor and roof garden, which will be dedicated 

 to the order. 



An interesting note is found in the reorgani- 

 zation of the JIalvern Chair Company at Mal- 

 vern, which discontinued business some 

 two months ago on account of alleged misman- 

 agement. The new company is capitalized at 

 .$100,000, and is known as the Cooper-Purdy 

 Chair Company. T. H. Purdy, late of Philadel- 

 phia, an experienced chair manufacturer, is at 

 the head of the new company as president, and 

 Walter Bady is secretary. The board of di- 

 rectors includes H. L. McDonald, T. H. Purdy, 

 .1. L. Cooper, Walter W. Bady and .T. H. Reaves. 

 The plant has already resumed operations. 



The Perkins Land & Lumber Company of Mem- 

 phis has secured a charter to operate as a cor- 

 poration in Arkansas. H. E. Perkins of Watson, 

 Ark., is named as state agent and to have charge 

 of the affairs of the company as manager of 

 the operations at Watson. The company has 

 about $20,000 invested in Arkansas properties. 

 Its main office is located at Memphis. 



Railroad extensions are being planned numer- 

 ously in the timber section of the state. A 

 deal is on now for a general extension of 

 the Memphis, Paris & Gulf railroad, from its 

 eastern terminus at Murfreesboro, in Pike coun- 

 ty, on through the central portion of the state 

 to Pine Bluff, thence to Marianna and on to 

 Memphis. This latter extension, from Marianna 

 to Memphis, is to be taken up by the business 

 men of the two cities the ensuing week. Work is 

 also being done on a western extension toward 

 Dallas, Tex. 



Another extension planned, and upon which 

 some contract work has been let is that of the 

 Pino Bluff & Louisiana, from Dollar .lunction 

 across Union county to a connection with the 

 Crossett branch of the Rock Island, at Cam- 

 pagnolle, a distance of twenty-two miles and 

 across a splendid timber belt. 



Both the Rock Island and the Iron Mountain 

 are carrying on big improvement enterprises in 

 track betterments, amounting to hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars. The Iron Mountain will 

 spend $100,000 in small passenger stations alone 

 during the coming year, and will put over 

 $1,000,000 into track betterments in this state. 

 Among its improvements, also, is an addition 



to the car shops hero that will practically double 

 the capacity. The addition is 500 feet long 

 by 150 feet in width. 



MILWAUKEE 



Referee in Bankruptcy B. Q. Nye of Milwaukee 

 has ordered a dividend of 10 per cent to be paid 

 the creditors of the bankrupt Milwaukee Seating 

 Company. The proven claims of the creditors 

 amount to a total of $31,000 and the trustee 

 reported at the recent hearing that he has in 

 his hands as proceeds realized since he took 

 charge of the assets, a total of $6,500. The 

 company went into bankruptcy last fall. 



News has been received in Wisconsin of the 

 recent death at Ludington, Mich., of A. C. 

 Cartier, a wealthy lumberman, formerly identified 

 with the lumbering interests of northern Wis- 

 consin. He was a resident at Ashland for 

 several years. 



A big run of orders for the new models of the 

 Raymond log loader are being received by the 

 Raymond Log Loader Company of Marinette. 

 The Cleveland-ClifCs Iron Company has pur- 

 chased several of the machines. 



It is expected that logging operations in the 

 Wisconsin lumber country will soon be brought 

 to a close for this season, not because of un- 

 favorable weather at the present time, but be- 

 cause conditions have been so favorable this 

 winter that an unusually large cut has been 

 made. 



The plant of the bankrupt Reidling Piano 

 Company of Plymouth has been sold by the 

 trustee, Charles Voigt, to the Parlor Frame 

 Company of Plymouth for $5,000. The plant 

 will be remodeled and added to the present 

 quarters of the Parlor Frame Company. 



Announcement has been made that more than 

 $75,000 worth of improvements will he made this 

 year upon the Racine, Wis., plant of the Amer- 

 ican- Seating Company. A brick and steel power- 

 house will be added, new boilers will be installed 

 and a new two-story dry kiln, 100x70 feet in 

 dimension, will be erected. It is rumored that 

 the company will also erect a new warehouse 

 and ofHce building. 



The plant of the Automatic File & Index Com- 

 pany at Green Bay was destroyed by fire re- 

 cently and an adjoining warehouse partly 

 wrecked with a loss of $15,000. An insurance 

 of only about $6,000 was carried. 



A. A. Frazer has taken out a lease on the 

 Wambold building at Appleton and will remodel 

 the structure for planing mill purposes. Later, 

 the manufacture of office and bar fixtures will 

 be taken up. 



The Hamilton Manufacturing Company, manu- 

 facturers of cabinets and wood type at Two 

 Rivers, has taken up the manufacture of ticket 

 racks and has been receiving orders from all 

 the leading theaters of the country. 



The Fond du Lac Church Furnishing Com- 

 pany of Fond du Lac has enlarged its factory 

 force in order to care for its rapidly increasing 

 orders. 



The Gillette-O'Leary Company, a new whole- 

 sale lumber firm, has been organized at Toma- 

 hawk by F. E. Gillette and D. J. O'Leary. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



Twin City building is just as brisk as ever, 

 and Minneapolis building permits for the first 

 two months of this year ran 57 per cent higher 

 than last year. Minneapolis permits for Febru- 

 ary increased from $300,745 last year to $470,- 

 890 this year, while St. Paul increased from 

 $375,022 to $543,706. Minneapolis for two 

 months had permits estimated to cost $1,073,- 

 285, and St. Paul for the same time had a total 

 of $898,298. 



F. H. Lewis, who has been engaged in the 

 wholesale hardwood business here for a number 

 of years, is spending the winter vacation in 



California. He is expected to be at home by the 

 last of this month. 



C. P. Coon of the Beldenville Lumber Com- 

 pany, Bruce, Wis., a well-known hardwood manu- 

 facturing concern, was here a few days looking 

 over marketing conditions. 



R. B. Thompson of the Thompson-McDonald 

 Lumber Company, one of the veteran dealers of 

 Minneapolis, has sold out his interest in the com- 

 pany and retired from business. 



E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber 

 Company and h. P. Arthur, manager of the Chi- 

 cago office, have finished a trip in Wisconsin 

 where they were looking over some contracted 

 stocks. Mr. Arthur remained in this city long 

 enough to attend the annual meeting of the 

 company. 



SAOINAW VALLEY 



Till.' lumber industry in this valley and eastern 

 Micliigan is 'Q good form. There has been a 

 steady movement of lumber all the winter, and 

 it has increased, while prices have materially 

 hardened, particularly on maple, birch and bass- 

 wood. The winter has been on the whole favor- 

 able for logging, although in some of the north- 

 ern localities the snow has been too deep for 

 convenience. Despite this, however, a larger 

 quantity of logs have been put in than during 

 'he last two years and operations will be brisk 

 during the summer. Many sawmills have been 

 operated at Bay City, Alpena, Cheboygan and 

 other points during the winter, and a number of 

 railroad mills are also turning out lumber. But 

 the demand has absorbed all available stocks and 

 large contracts have been made for stock to be 

 cut. It is estimated that 60,000.000 feet of 

 niaple has been contracted for during the last 

 thirty days, none of which has yet reached the 

 saw. 



The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company, 

 operating on the Mackinaw division north of 

 Bay City, sold 5.000.000 feet of maple to the 

 Forman Lumber Company of Detroit to be con- 

 verted into flooring. 



W. D. Young & Co. are operating their plant 

 day and night and are moving a large quantity 

 of flooring by rail. Mr. Young says that business 

 Is brisk and satisfactory. Heavy shipments are 

 being made for the export trade. 



All of the hardwood plants are active at this 

 time. The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company 

 has bought the timber interests of the Prescott- 

 Miller Lumber Company, operating a mill near 

 Rose City, Ogenaw county, consisting of about 

 12.000,000 feet of timber. The mill at Rose 

 City has logs to keep it busy about a month 

 yet. when it will go out of commission. There 

 will be cousiderable lumber to ship from the 

 mill after it .shuts down, and after tbat has been 

 shipped the Prescott-Miller Company will wind 

 up its affairs. The standing timber will be 

 manufactured by the S. A. Robinson Lumber 

 Company operating a sawmill near South Branch 

 in the same county. Mr. Eastman is a heavy 

 stockholder in the Robinson Company. This 

 company has now more than 60,000.000 feet of 

 stumpage. The maple lumber will go to the 

 Eastman Flooring Company's plant at Saginaw 

 for conversion into flooring. In addition to this 

 the Eastman company has purchased 8.000.000 

 feet of maple lumber of the Knoeland-Bigelow 

 Company at Bay City. This is to be manufac- 

 lured during the season. 



Five mills were operated at Alpena last sea- 

 son. The Richardson Lumber Company manu- 

 factured 2.550,000 feet of hardwood " lumber. 

 The Churchill Lumber Company manufactured 

 4.000,000 feet of hardwood lumber. The Island 

 Mill Lumber Company manufactured 4.200,000 

 ifft of hardwood lumber and the Beck Company 

 uinuufactured 545.300 feet of hardwood lumber. 

 •Hie mill of F. W. Gilchrist is estimated to have 

 iiianufnrtured 4.250,000 feet of hardwood lumber. 



