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PANORAMIC VIEW PLANT OP LITTLE RIVER LUMB 



l Hameter at l Aught to 



slump line, 6x31 limb. 



Poplar 102 In. 1B0 ft. 



Red oak 60 In. T5 ft. 



I ties t 60 In. 60 ft. 



Cherry -is In. 7.". ft. 



Sllverbell tree -14 In. 65 ft. 



Hickory 46 In. '<> ft. 



Bas wood 40 In. 75 ft. 



White ash 36 In. 75 ft 



Sassafras 50 In. 60 ft. 



Bed birch -in in. 63 ft. 



Buckeye 4" in 70 ft. 



Black gum 36 In. 10 ft. 



White pine n In. 90 ft. 



White holly 16 In. 40 ft. 



B Ii in in. 65 ii. 



Within the fores) there is a considerable 

 range of white pine, the genuine Finns stro- 

 bus of the northern forests. Here the condi- 

 tions of si.il and altitude produce just .-is 

 handsome a tree as the former pines of the 

 Maine, Pennsylvania and Michigan forests, 

 Inil the timber does not cut to as much clear 

 lumber as the northern prototype. However, 



the knots are sound, round and generally red, 

 Mini it makes a verj nigh-class conn i lum- 

 ber which finds a ready sale in competition 

 n ith the h hite pine of the Norl hwest. 



The largest and most valuable stand of tim- 



ber conti id within the holdings of the 



Little River Lumber < ompany is the poplar, 

 which grows in great profusion, and to a 

 mz'- unequaled in the forests of this conti- 

 nent, aavt by the redw Is of California. 



More than a hundred poplar trees, ranging 

 i four to ten feet in diameter, can !»• 

 ted within n distance of a half mile 



along one n ntain cove. The timber is 



remarkably sound and <-nts to a very largi 

 pi rcentage of dear. Next to poplar in abun 

 dance, but of lesser value, is the hemlock and 

 white pine. The other chief hardwood growth 

 i- tli. red "nk. ash, cherry, chestnut, hickorj 

 and peaw I. 



The seal of the lumber operations of the 

 Little River Lumbei ' ompanj is at Townsend, 



Blount county, Tennessee. This new and 

 modern town, containing the band mills, 

 planing mills, shops, handsome homes and 

 general outfit of a sawmill community, was 

 established three years ago, on a broad and 

 spacious bottom alongside the Little river, 

 at a point formerly known ns Tuckaleechee 

 Cove. A review of the photographs of this 

 plant and its surroundings will demonstrate 

 that it is lit' model character. The lumber 

 is scientifically manufactured, piled and sea- 

 soned with the greatest run', and graded with 

 exact itude. 



Townsend is reached from Knoxville, Ten- 

 ee, southeast of which it lies some thirty- 

 three miles, by way of the Knoxville and 

 Augusts division of the Southern railway, 

 which extends from Knoxville \ in Maryville, 

 to Walland. Walland is located where the 

 old maps show Chilhowee Gap, at a point 

 where the Little river breaks through a pass 

 in the i hilhowee range. Prom this point 



SECTION OF ONE OP THE LOG SLIDES. 



MILLS OF THE LITTLE RIVER LUMI1E 



