According to advices from Chicago, Edward Hines, presi- 

 dent of the Hines Lumber Company, has personally closed a 

 deal involving several million dollars whereby his company 

 becomes the owner of the timber holdings, mill properties, 

 camps, equipment, etc., of the Atwood Lumber and Manufac- 

 turing Company of Park Falls, Wis. The Atwood timber hold- 

 ings cover one hundred and fifty thousand acres in three 

 Wisconsin counties in the neighborhood of Hastings. 



According to Mr. Hines the work of cutting the timber will 

 begin immediately and as fast as it is cleared; the land will 

 be cut up into farms and sold. Statisticians figure that there 

 is lumber enough to employ several thousand men in the cut- 

 ting and milling which will last for twenty years. 



The Hines company has also purchased from the Colvin & 

 Robb Lumber Company of Biwabik, Minn., according to dis- 

 patches from Duluth, 6,000,000 feet of Norway pine. Another 

 interior mill of the state has just sold to North Tonawanda 

 interests 10,000,000 feet of white pine, No. 2 and better, and a 

 similar sale to the same interests has been made since the 

 first of the year. 



G. E. Marshall, Supervisor of the Minnesota National Forest 

 at Cass Lake, declares that Northern Minnesota will event- 

 ually become the mecca of tourists and summer pleasure 

 seekers to such an extent that it will rival the far famed and 

 popular resorts of the Adirondacks. Cottage sites in The Na- 

 tional Forest, according to Mr. Marshall, are being rapidly 

 leased by resorters and automobile roads are being con- 

 structed. The supervisor says he expects several thousand 

 tourists will visit the forest this summer. 



More than one hundred acres of this forest will be devoted 

 this year to experimental planting of white and Norway pine. 

 The government will spend about three thousand dollars on 

 road construction alone and an automobile road will be built 

 through the forest from Cass Lake eastward. 



A mid-summer conference of national and state rangers 

 and representatives of the State Forestry Association may be 

 held at Cass Lake this summer. 



