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HARDWOOD RECORD 



PICTURESQUE SAWMILL AND PLANING MILL PLANT OF D. M. ROSE & CO., EAST KNOXVILLE. 



fertile, healthful and beautiful regions of the United States. It 

 has a mean altitude of eight hundred feet above sea level, and a 

 part of the town is located on several considerable eminences that 

 overlook other portions that stretch out into great levels. Its 

 climate is salubrious, the air coming off the mountains being very 

 pure and healthful, and its water supply is of a splendid quality. 

 From its proximity to the mountain region, the summer season is 

 never unduly hot, while the winters are mild. The scenic attract- 

 iveness of the surrounding country is surpassingly fine. 



Around the city of Knoxville are several medicinal and other 

 springs much sought by health seekers. Fruits, cereals, nuts and 

 tobacco grow in great abundance on the farm lands surrounding 

 Knoxville, and its minerals are very abundant. A new industry 

 which is growing daily in size and importance is the marble busi- 

 ness. Knoxville has several large marble companies which ship 

 their product to all parts of the country. Its great hardwood 

 forests, in spite of having been devastated at its very doors for 

 more than a century, embrace such a wide area as to insure this 

 city being the center of a largely increased hardwood lumber 

 business for many years in the future. In addition to the hardwood 

 supplies growing within a verj' few miles of Knoxville, there still 

 remains no inconsiderable quantity of white pine, and several 

 varieties of yellow pine in considerable abundance. 



Knoxville is a railway center of large importance, and both 

 the Southern and Louisville & Nashville lines radiate from it in a 

 dozen directions. In addition to these systems there arc several 

 minor railroad lines penetrating forest areas. 



The facilities for water transportation via the great Tennessee 

 river are unsurpassed by any inland city in the country. The 

 production of iron, lumber, coal and marble are foremost in the 

 city's commercial enterprises, together with its factories making 

 iron and steel products, textiles in both wool and cotton, and its 

 numerous wood-working industries engaged largely in the produc- 

 tion of furniture, wood mantels, coifins, boxes, porch columns, 

 hardwood flooring, etc. 



Character of Timber Resources 



There are certain typos of timber in the great variety that grow 

 in the United States that abound in surpassing excellence in the 

 Knoxville region. Perhaps of first importance is the yellow 

 poplar, which grows in virgin character of a most splendid type 

 in all this mountain country. Of second importance is the red 

 oak, the true Quercus ruba, which is regarded as the finest furni- 

 ture oak growing in the United States; and only of second value- 

 is its white oak, quercus alba. Next in order of commercial 

 greatness is the splendid chestnut of this region, and then in lesser 

 quantities but of no mean importance, is the red birch, basswood, 

 soft maple, white ash, silverbelltrce, black walnut, a half dozen 

 varieties of hickory, red gum, white walnut, etc., etc. In no region 

 of the United States is there such a variety of high-type timber 

 as grows in this region. Soil and rainfall conditions, combined 

 with varying altitudes, make this condition of tree growth possible. 

 Who Is Who in the Knoxville Trade 



The most important lumber operation in the Knoxville region is 

 that of the Little River Lumber Company at Townsend, Tenn., 



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