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10 JEFFERSON COUNTY. ARK.
TIMBER. wood, furnishes excellent material for tanning. The
hard woods in the county have been estimated at
The lumber producing trees are cypress, yellow pine,
oak of many kinds, ash, pecan, sycamore, gum and bois 2,500,000,000 feet board measure, of which one-fourth
is pine and the rest satinwood, oak, ash, hickory,
d'arc (bodark). cypress and cottonwood. There are twenty-seven mills
in the county, with a daily capacity of 340,000 feet, and
Trees useful domestically are elm, cedar, hickory, seven planing mills with a capacity of 140.000.
mulberry, cottonwood, beech and sugar maple. The
large forests of those timbers deserve serious considera- The annual cut of all the mills in the county is given
tion in making up the advantages of Jefferson County at 100,000,000. The lumber trade has at times reached
for settlements. Maine, Minnesota and Wisconsin so great proportions that it was impossible for the
have drawn to their people large fortunes from trade railroads to supply cars sufficient for transportation.
in merely two kinds of lumber— white pine and hem-
lock or spruce pine. Our yellow pine is superior to PRICES OF LUMBER. $8. 50
either in quantity and quality. It is susceptible of a Yellow Pine, green, per 1000 feet
ANNUNCIATION (SISTERS OF CHARITY).
much finer polish for furniture and interior decora- Yellow Pine, dry, per 1000 feet
Ations. finish in oil is often all that is needed, while Cypress, per 1000 feet 13.00
Walnut, 30.00
its great hardness and strength make it first-class ma- 15.00
15.00
terial for flooring, ship-building and general frame White Oak,
2.25
work. Ash, ..................,,][ 9.00
For various mechanical purposes, such as the manu- Oak, Ash and Hickory wood, by the cord, deliv'd,
facture of wagons, carriages, plows and barrels, there
is to be found a large and convenient supply of white Brick, per single 1000, delivered in Pine Bluff.
oak, hickory, ash, pecan and bois d'arc.
MANUFACTORIES.
Walnut deserves separate mention for its plentiful-
ness and singular beauty, comparing favorably with The openings for manufactories are numerous. Wood-
mahogany and rosewood. working, furniture, hub and spoke factories; shingle
and saw mills; wagon and carriage factories; not to
Black oak, called also dyers' oak, with other dyers' mention cotton factories, which when properly organ-
ized and worked would well repay an investment. The
