Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-30
COSTLY WOODS.
WHERE THOSE SOLD IN NEW
YORK COME FROM.
Some Cost More Per Pound Than
the Most Expensive Mcats-Rarc
Kinds That are brought
Many Thousand Miles.

eyes, we have wood here that costs
more than the choicest slices oi meat.
Over there is somc French burl waluu;
worth ut Il low estimate thirty cents per
pound. Although called French wood it
never saw France. Ii comes from Persia
and CircaSSia by way of Constantinoplc. "
The speaker WAS Il fancy-wood importer
on the East River, this city land hc pointed
rs he spoke to Il dark, roughly hcwn
block that stood with many other blocks
in Il row against the wall OF his office.
MarscllcS merchants, The dealer ex-
planned, were the original importers OF
burl walnut, and ri one time cnioycd Il
monopoly OF the h,isiaeSS, hut oi late
years the city of Marsciivi has NO, been
Il walnut market of much account.
Can the demands Tor fancy woods bc
satisfied by the productions of for>iga
countries, asked the reporter
"No," rcjoiued the importer. eve
have never been able to supply oar trade
with enough of the rare qualities of wood.
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i'll The row, lis snukcwuod, out of which
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