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kee counties, in the extreme southwestern limit 

 of North Carolina. 



The company has operated for several years 

 a plant at Judson, Swain county, North Caro- 

 lina, a short distance from its holdings in 

 Graham county, and another even larger one 

 at Abingdon, Va., drawing its timber sup- 

 plies from Johnson and Sullivan counties, 

 eastern Tennessee. Subsequent to the pur- 

 chase of the Buchanan timber, the company 

 bought what is known as the Snowbird tract, 

 consisting of white oak, chestnut, hemlock, 

 etc., and aggregating 53, -551,575 feet; the 

 Beiding tract, consisting of black oak, chest- 

 nut, cherry, etc., aggregating 131,960,350 feet ; 

 the Long Creek tract, consisting of chestnut, 

 red and black oak, maple, etc., aggregating 

 10,796,500 feet, and the Slick Kock Valley 

 tract, aggregating 114,920,190 feet of fine 

 timber. The company owns an aggregate of 



retary and competent business man, the Whit- 

 ing officials have shown wisdom, for in the 

 performance of more than one function which 

 the trade requires he has shown himself 

 thoroughly efficient. 



Jackson-Wyatt Lumber Company 



The Jackson-Wyatt Lumber Company, 



wholesaler at 703 Franklin Bank building, 



although only a year old, is fast attaining, 



through strenuous hustling, a gratifying posi- 



ROBERT V. WUrlMEU. TRESIDENT \VM. 

 WHIT.MBlt «; Sd.VS. INC. 



93,000 acres of the best timber lands in the 

 Appalachian range. The fine hardwood floor- 

 ing manufactured by this company comes from 

 the factory at Judson, N. C, where it has also 

 a box shook mill. The manufacturing of the 

 Whiting Lumber Company is almost limitless, 

 and the equipment for production unsurpassed. 

 Every facility for getting out and transport- 

 ing its vast amount of timber, in the way of 

 railroading, bridging, electric lighting and ef- 

 fective appliances, the company has availed 

 itself of, reducing thereby the handicap, dan- 

 ger of loss, and inconvenience to which such an 

 enterprise is exposed, to a minimum. 



The personnel of the Whiting Lumber Com- 

 pany consists of F. R. Whiting, president; 

 W. S. Whiting, vice-president ; Henry Whit- 

 ing, treasurer, and 0. L. Barr, secretary. 



The Whitings are descended from good old 

 Puritan stock, and the traits of character 

 which enabled their ancestors to win out in 

 the noble cause for which they sacrificed them- 

 selves, have descended without stint to their 

 posterity. In the choice of C. L. Barr as sec- 



JOHN W. COLES. 



bility. William H. Wyatt has charge of the 

 clerical force. The company handles hard- 

 woods of all kinds, also spruce, hemlock and 

 yellow pine. 



Wistar, Underhill & Co. 



In February, 1S9S, R. Wyatt Wistar and 

 Frederick S. Underhill organized the firm of 

 Wistar & Underhill. At first they did the 

 liuying and selling, the bookkeeping and cor- 

 responding in connection with their business 

 themselves, but it was not long before their 

 trade had increased to such an extent as to 

 render this impossible. These men have 

 always been hustlers. They have succeeded in 

 this venture as they would in any undertaking, 

 for they are workers, and work figures large 

 in business success. 



In 1899 trade had developed greatly and 

 Thomas N. Nixon was employed as traveling 

 salesman. He continued in this Capacity until 



.rOSEI'lI V. DUNWOODY. FLECK & DUN- 

 WOODY. 



tion in the Philadelphia trade. The personnel 

 of the concern consists of L. C. Kent, presi- 

 dent; William A. Jackson, vice-president, and 

 William H. Wyatt, secretary and treasurer. 



Mr. Kent is not actively engaged in the 

 concern, leaving the practical management to 

 Mr. Jackson, who has for almost twelve years 

 been connected with the lumber business, hav- 

 ing been at one time with Halfpenny & Hamil- 

 ton, and in other capacities of responsi- 



.TEROME H. SHBIP. 



1905, when he was admitted as a member 

 of the firm, and the name changed to Wistar, 

 Underhill & Co., which title still continues. 



Wistar, Underhill & Co.'s specialties are 

 hardwoods, cypress, and white and yellow pine. 

 They have a hardwood yard at Nashville, 

 Tenn., piled with a well-assorted stock of high- 

 grade quartered red and white oak, plain oak, 

 poplar, chestnut and ash. They have also 

 well-stocked yards at Abingdon and Dugdale, 

 Va., and at Crandall, Tenn. The largest of 

 these is the one at Dugdale, which is stocked 

 with chestnut, oak, poplar, basswood, white 

 pine and hemlock of excellent quality. At 

 Warrior, N. C, in the famous Sapphire coun- 

 try, is another yard, stocked principally with • 

 white pine of exceptional quality, with some 

 oak, chestnut and poplar. The firm is now 

 contemplating putting in a fine stock of oak, 

 ash and basswood at Montezuma, N. C. 



Wistar, Underhill & Co. are part owners of 

 and sales agents for the Evergreen Lumber 

 Company of Evergreen, N. C, manufacturer of 

 longleaf yellow pine lumber and shortleaf yel- 



