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Lumber Company he has excelled his suc- 

 cessful history in Pennsylvania, and while 

 the Little River Lumber Company is a new 



operation, the sn ;ss that he has already 



achieved there makes certain that lie is 

 adding new laurels to 

 his commercial career. 



Entitled to mention 

 in connection with the 

 logging operations of 

 the Little River Lum- 

 ber Company is John 

 Shea of the Townsend 

 Logging & Supply Com- 

 pany, who has inn li- 



ate charge of the nun 

 pany's woods work. Mr. 

 Shea 's counterfeit pre- 

 sentiment can be seen 

 in one of the illustra- 

 tions standing beside 

 the big poplar logs, lie 

 is a Pennsylvania prod- 

 net and in the excep- 

 tional record he is mak- 

 ing at the Little River 

 Lumber Company 's lug- 

 ging operal inns, is fair- 

 ly duplicating the suc- 

 cess be attained in 

 Pennsylvania in the same line of endeavor. 



Pertinent to this meager review of the 

 Little River Lumber Company, a word con- 

 cerning the topography of the Southern 

 Appalachian mountains in which it is pro- 



posed eventual i , ate a national park, 

 is timely. The r< g ion comprises a consider 

 able area of western North Carolina and 

 comparatively small portions of South Caro 

 liiia. i leorgia, Tenni ssee and Virginia. As 



THE SECOND AND THIRD LOGS. 



a whole it involves about 12,000 square 

 miles, the larger portion of which is espe 

 eially adapted to park purposes. The proj 



ect of a national park in this region is one 

 dear not only to the heart of President 



bul also lo tin the 



citizens of this country whoso h i-s lie 



easl of the Mississi] pi river. From its prox- 

 i of population it is a 

 11 that has an accessibility possi 



district in 

 the United States. 



Although the section 

 contains many large 

 - and valleys, it is 

 preeminently a i > _ 

 of mountains. It in- 

 i he largi si area 

 iver 5,000 feel 

 in hi ighl easl of t he 

 l issippi. In all 16 

 peaks a mile or more 

 apart with II miles of 

 divide rise above 6 

 feet, while l'ss peaks 

 a nd .,!' divide 



are or more 



in hi ight. This greal 

 mountain mass is i 

 posed of j number of 

 large and many Ii 

 as, forming a belt 

 i :!'»i miles long. 

 Between the chains are 

 extensit e plal 

 which are themselves mountains when com- 

 «illi lower \ alleys which 

 The Blue R idgi forme thi Bouth- 

 the Unaka Mountains the 

 front of the mountains. 



pared 

 t hem. 

 eastern and 

 nurt hu estern 



RED BIRCH. 



BUCKEYE. 



BLACK 



