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Show A CO.VIBIM5 INTENDED. KepreiieiitaUvc Lumber Firm Meet Today fur That I'm pone. MiNNKAPuus, Minn., July ".Special. ".Spe-cial. Ilepresentatives from nbout sixty of the most prominent lumber firms of the Mississippi valley and Xorthern Wisconsin met hero today to form a combination to raise tho prico of lumber. Capital to the amount of mere than $15,CO.),0()0 is represented. The report of a committee recommending recommend-ing a plan for a uniform scale of sorting sort-ing lumber caused a lively debate, as also did the recommendations to the lirms to call their traveling men oil' the road. There was considerable dissatisfaction dissatis-faction with the proposition to withdraw with-draw the traveling men, on the ground that many firms do not employ them, and such a move would givothesoa great advantage over those who do. |