The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-23
A GREAT BIG EXHIBIT
Greensboro People Give Sub
stantial encouragement.
Mr.. Arendell CoIfident That North Carolina S
Progressive Men viii Duplicate App,Opd-
alton Made by The Legislature.
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alton Made by The Legislature.
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Greensboro, N. G., July 22-Mr. f.
Arendel, of Raleigh, was in Greensboro to-
day interviewing our people on the St..
Louis Worlds Fair matter and received
substantial assurances from our leading
manufacturers and other citizens of their
hearty cooperation in the movement look
| ing to a creditable display of the States
resources and products at this great uni
versal exposition. Mr. Arendell says that
plausible, practicable and economical plans
have been perfected and agreed upon be-
tween the State authorities and the man
ayers OF the exposition which will enable
| the State with the cooperation of its in
dustrial forces to install at St. Louis
most credltable and comprehensive ex-
hibit, embracing not only its resources
but its finished products; its cotton mill
fabrics and other mill products; its to-
bacco factory as well as tobacco field pro-
ducts; its finished hard wood products as
well as its vast forestry exhibit; together
with the States splendid collection which
represents an expenditure of more than
one hundred thousand dollars and in some
/ features surpasses the collection of any
State In the Union. The making of the
| legislative appropriation available by the
cooperation of the cotton mills the to-
bacco manufacturing, the furniture man
ufacturing and other industrial, financial
and commercial interest of the State will
make possible the installing of this vast
State exhibit at st. Louis and this, supple.
mented by proper exhibit from our mills,
fields and factories will all together make
display that we shall be gratified with
and one upon which the millions of visi-
tors will gaze with interest if not amaze
ment.
THE factory people and mill people.
said Mr.. Arendell, in so far as we have
yet been able to see them are q unit III
their approval of the plans and in their
disposition to give them their hearty co
operation and their substantial aid .
Judge Boyd opened the Circuit Court
here this afternoon, and signed the various
DEGREES prayed for in the final settlemept
OF the litigation over the properties OF
the Mt. Airy Lumber and Manufacturing
Company, and the Mt. Airy and Eastern
Railway Company.
The receivers of the former company.
heretofore appointed, w. a. Blair, of Win
ston and Walter Fl. Tunis, of Washington
d. O.. were discharged, and the property
and assets We're transferred by deed OF
purchase to a new corporation, to be-
known as the Dan Valley Lumber Com
pany, with a capital of $780, 900.
W. j. Wiley, of New York, is presi
dent, and the principal stockholders are
| W. j. Wiley, D. II. Hardy. of Norfolk; the
Tunis Lumber Company, of Norfolk; p.
H. Blair and George II. Hinshaw. of Win
ston-Salem.
In the matter of the Railway Company,
G. r. Keezee, by consent, was permitted
to resign as receiver and d. w. Hardy and
w. j. Wiley were appointed receivers.
In the near future the Dan Valley
Lumber Company will absorb the Mt. Airy
and Eastern Railway Company, and with
plenty of capital behind it, will proceed
at once to continue the marvellous devel-
opment of that section OF the State, SO
auspiciously begun by the former enter
prising capitalists under the lead of Wal
ter H. Tunis. Mr. Tunis has sold his en-
tire interests to the Tunis Lumber Com
pany and will retire from further active
operations in the lumber world
He will return to Maryland, and later
take an European tour for rest and rs-
cuperation.
Mr.. Tunis was recently rendered the
position Of expert in charge of the For
esty exhibit at st. Louis but declined the
honor.
The present terminus. of the new rail-
road is twenty-five miles from Mt AIRY.
and It's construction for that length from
the Granite City down the beautiful and
| ha IS q mn
to the indomitable energy and pluck os
the noted lumberman This valley extends
for % miles, on each side of which are
rugged mountain slopes crowned by dense
growth of magnificent hardwood tlmbers.
1t is the purpose Of the new corporation
to extend this road through the valley into
the heart Of the mountains and to cross
the Blue Ridge. AS the railroad has pro
crossed new mills have been built. the
lumber sawed and loaded on cars and
taken to Mt. Airy. The same course viii
be continued.
The means by which the logs reach the
mills are interesting and a tribute to the
genius of American-North Carolina enter
prise and ingenuity There are no teams
or wagons employed The timber on the
preciptous slopes on either side OF the
fdlley Is cut uONIl, anu ihec VS. t@htNA
one rolled by gravity to the river below.
When million feet or more of this timber
has been rolled down, the logs are placed
in the river for floating to the mills where
large boom and en- artificial pond IS
located. Nine or ten miles up the river
from the mills is an immense reservoir,
created by dam built Of solid rock Il
feet high. device is arranged by winch
a gate in this dam is lifted, allowing the
reservoir containing millions OF gallons OF
water to be emptied at once. Ihus a
typical Johnstown flood pours and surges
down the river, carrying the logs before
it and spashing them into the storage
boom below.
This is the modus- operandi OF me noted
srlash-dam system employed ana mus
prove of especial interest to the lumber
men of the East, who haul with oxen and |
mules through the fat cypress kneed
swamps Of that section.