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Show CO-OPERATIVE MILLS. From the Monetary Times of Canada, published at Toronto, wc learn that ''to complete arrangements for v launching 1500 returned soldiers in the lumber ; business in British Columbia, two officers of-ficers of the proposed company will leave Vancouver soon for England, where they will make a personal selection selec-tion from the men coming from the war zones. A federal charter is being sought for the company, which is to have an authorized capital of $10,000,000, and a paid-up capital of $1,500,000. The mills will be operated on a co-operative basis, the soldiers having full share in the management. It is explained that each of tho 1500 returned men should take $100 in stock. Only returned men will be employed in mills and camps aud in the agencies that the company proposes to establish iu Canada, the United States, Europe and elsewhere. The workers will live in community settlements settle-ments and will be paid current lumbermen's lumber-men's wages. The company has secured an option on eight large saw mills in British Columbia, with a capacity of 150.000.000 fvit yearly, and ou timber limits aggregating 5.000,000,000." This plan if put into successful opera-; opera-; tion will not only provide employment for the returned soldiers but will give I lhe busiue-is of the dominion a big boost tin addition. The Canadian government' (proposes to provide farms for thousands I of tiie war veterans and this, too, will I ultimately redound to the great ad van- j tage of the whole country. It is to be hoped that the legislators at Washington Washing-ton will adopt Scrctaiy Lane's idea and do pomething along these lines for the American soldiers. |