ITEMS OF INTEREST September 23, 1911 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The New Orleans-Netherlands Company, owner of a five-thousand-acre tract of land ten miles southwest of New Orleans, will be ready to bring about two hundred families of Hollanders to colonize some time next year. J. Arthur Dixon, secretary of the company, says: "This section of Louisiana is truly the Holland of America, and we will bring to our tract only Hollanders, believing that they will do better there than would any other settlers. They understand well the system of farming that will be necessary here, and with proper environments they will succeed."

An expenditure of sixty million dollars is called for by the Boston Elevated railway's plans for construction and extensions in its transit development before the year 1915. To provide the necessary power a high tension alternating current system, consisting of a power station of thirty-thousand kilowatt capacity, one hundred and forty-two miles of underground conduit, and six sub-stations in which alternating current will be transformed into direct current, is being installed.

Charging conspiracy to restrain interstate trade and commerce in lumber and its products, a United States district attorney has filed a bill in the United States circuit court at Detroit, Mich., to enjoin the Michigan Retail Lumber Dealer's Association, the Scout Publishing Company of Detroit, Mich., and the Lumber Secretaries Bureau of Information of Chicago from further alleged unlawful business methods. This suit is one of several in the campaign which the department of justice is conducting against the lumber trust.

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