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Next year's captain will have a considerable amount of good material for his team, although as usual timber for the field events will be lacking. French, O'Connell, and Smith are Freshmen who look strong on the cinders, and with Luttman and O'Neil should give the Crimson a formidable array of cinder talent...
...Pickering company charter-for the newly created $32,000,000 Pickering Lumber Co. Thirty-two years ago he and his father William R. Pickering organized the W. R. Pickering Lumber Co. for $60,000. They prospered, took in as subsidiaries the Standard Lumber Co. and the Pickering Land and Timber Co., established 51 retail yards in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, developed timber holdings of some 350,000,000 feet of southern yellow pine and 3,500,000,000 feet of California white and sugar pine, reached production of 1,000,000 feet of finished lumber...
...plants in Chicago, Rock Falls, Canton (Ill.), Ft. Wayne, Richmond (Ind.), Akron, Springfield (Ohio), St. Paul (Minn.), Auburn (N. Y.) and Milwaukee (Wis.). Raw materials come from company-owned iron ore mines in Minnesota, coal and coke works in Kentucky and at Chicago, furnace and steel mills at Chicago, timber lands and sawmills in Missouri, sisal plantations in Cuba. The S. S. Harvester, 10,000 tons, affords transportation economies...
Former Chancellor Wirth of Germany was listed as having obtained the most valuable plum: immense timber concessions in the Volga forests. There followed as a close second the extensive rights for exploiting Russian manganese deposits obtained by the Harriman interests...
...gentleman addressed was Charles F. Ruggles, timber and salt man of Manistee, Mich. The reason he was addressed, and Lawyer Elihu Root of Manhattan wrote a letter similar to Judge Taft's, was that both writers had read a declaration of the officers and directors of the American Judicature Society in which it was revealed that Mr. Ruggles was that society's conceiver, founder and patron...