St. Louis Lurnber Dealers Fined and Ousted

'fhe nrost severe decision ever rendered against retail lumber dealers was the fecent decision of the Suprems Court of Missouri, issued on August first. It found the St. Louis Lumber Trade Exchange, composed of iumber dealers of St. Louis City and County, guilty of conspiracy to restrain trade, limit and restrict competition, and fix prices. The Exchange is 'dissolved by the decision, the members are all fined'from $2,500 to $10,000 each, and they are all "unconditionally oust.ed" from tl,e State of X4issouri, and can no longer do business in" that commonwealth. Somre, of the best known lumbermen in the country are on the list. including Julius Seidel, former Snark of Hoo-Hoo.

The following is a list of the firms fined and ousted, anC the amount's of their fines:

Julius Seidel Lumber Co. Fined $IO,OOO. St. Louis I-um'ber Co, Firted $10.000.

Wiles-Chipman Lumber So. Fined $10,000.

Boecker Lumber Co. Fined $10.000.

Philip Gruner & Sons Lumber Co. Fined $7,500.

O'Neil Lumber Co. Fined $5,000.

Shellabarger Lumber Co. Fined $5,000.

Prendergast Lurn,ber Co. Fined $5,0O0.

Ganahl Lumber Co. Fined $5,000.

Holekamp Lumber Co. ' Fined $3,500.

Mound City Lumber Co. Fined $3,500.

S. J. Gavin Lumber Co. Fined $3.500

Goodfellow Lumber Co. Fined $3,000.

Clayton Lumber Co., St. Louis County. Fined $2,5O0.

Cherokee Lumber Co. Fined $2,500.

Vandeventer Lumber Co. Fined $2,500.

H. E. Rapp Lumber Co. Fined $2,500.

Louis Essig I-umber Co. Fined $2,5,0O.

Wilson Land & Lurnher Co. Fined $2,500.

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