The Green Forest tribune., 1916-01-14

CSulChI SchAHoAJ that will employ 400 men and repre- sent capacity of many barrels per day will be under construction here within 90 days, according to financiers and capitalists interested.
 The company has been organized and has purchased 100 acres south west of Foreman. It is said that $75G,- 900 worth of improved machinery is being made in Philadelphia for the manufacture of cement
 The name of the concern is the Con- sumers' Portland Cement Company. phone man of this city, but now of Chicago, who is organizer of the com- pany, local men are said to be inter- ested. E. D. Adyelotte, a local real estate man, is looking after the local interests of the company. MT. Oxford looking over the property.
 It is said the deposit here will make a fine grade of white cement. It is located one mile from Foreman. A proposed railroad has been surveyed from the land to the Frisco, distance of mile. The company just organ. ized proposes to build this road at once, it is said.
 Reuben Willett of Yellville, who buys the bulk of the zinc ore in the North Arkansas field and who also furnishes the United States geological survey with production figures, has just made his report for this year. The total is 15,429,O10 pounds, and the value runs right up around $1,000,000. This is approximately 400 per cent gain over last years production. The report shows this was produced from S7 properties. All the mines on the and the total is we'll above this figure.
 Custer proceedings were instituted in the Circuit Court at Fort Smith in the name of Attorney General Wallace Davis against Dr. Hal Neal as county health officer. The petition alleges that pr. Neal was not regularly ap- pointed. The petition asks for an in- junction restraining him from per forming the duties of the office and from receiving the salary. It also asks that Dr. E. c. Myers of this city be declared county physician.
 A widely circulated story that the bar of the Arlington hotel of Hot Springs would remain open because the hotel is situated on government property and therefore would not be emenable to the statewide prohibition law, is denied by tne hotel proprie- tcrs. They say they intend to observe the prohibition law, although there is some doubt as to whether it could be made to apply to the hotel.
 "The manganese field is the most extensive in the United States" says R. s. Handford, who has in charge | the management of the mining at Cushman. He says that in the hills near this piaUe exists szi1trost e1ro r--5sti l to supply the needs of the world and l that it will not be long before mining operations will be extended and new 1 deposits opened.
 The feasibility of conducting 21- day race meeting in Hot Springs, be- ginning either March 10 or on St. Pat 1 rick's day, about the time the pres ] ent meeting in New Orleans closes, was brought to the attention of local residents by Gus Strauss, president of the Business Mems League, on his return from St. Louis.
 The eleventh biennial report of John H. Page, commissioner of mines, manufactures and agriculture, sum- marking the work of the department in 1913-14, is being issued by a local printing company and the entire edi tion will be placed with the depart ment in a few days.
 A new blaming mill will be opened at Conway within the next few days by the Camden Mill Company. The plant will employ about 25 men. It will be located on the site ot the old stave mill of the National Cooperage Company.
 A grave crisis in the financial af- fairs of the Conway School District