Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1908-03-29

Pine Bluff, Ark, on the St. Louis
Southwestern railroad The mill con-
sists OF Two Filler & StoWelI band
saws, and a Wick's gang.
The planning mill at Clio is a very,
extensive affair, containing at least
twenty machines, most of which We're
installed by the S. \. Woods Machine
Company, Of Boston, Mass. The COM
pany has just installed two new
Woods machines, one q timber ma
chine capable Of surfacing four-side
timbers 20X30 inches in size, one Of
the largest machines of that kind ever
erected The other machine is a high
grade flooring affair.
The employees at Clio, in normal
times, number between 800 and 500
people.
They have very large dry kiln Of
six rooms at Clio and plenty of shet
room to shed 100000 feet of lumber.
The logs of the Bluff City Com
pany are brought into the mills at
Clio over a we'll built independent
railroad line, known as the Anderson
& Saline, whic hruns forty miles from
Clio in a westerly direction and il
standard gage.
The annual output OF this plant at
Clio is 40.000,0O0 feet, mostly hard
wood.
At kearney. Ark, on the Iron Noun
tain railroad, between Pine Bluff and
Little Rock, about seventeen miles
northwest Of Pine Bluff, is situated
another saw milling proposition Of the
Bluff City Lumber Company.
1t has there band and circular
saw also made by the Filler & Stowell
Company.
1t has at kearney an average plan
ing mill Of six machines two-room
dry kiln and sheds for at least ,OOO,-
GOO feet of lumber.
The railroad which hauls the logs to
the mills at kearney is known as the
kearney & Sheridan and is in the
neighborhood Of eighteen miles long.
About 300 men are employed at
kearney at normal times and they
will produce there 100000 feet an
nually, - percent hardwood
Its SDeciaItipS.
The specialties of the Bluff City
Lumber Company are oak, red gum
and yellow pine.
The oak marketed by the Bluff City
Lumber Company is all cut by its
mills, and is not bought Of the small
mill man and is all taken from the
finest body of forked leaf white oak
i'll the South. This timber is virgin
and has never been stripped, even Of
its stave timber. This company's rac-
ticular speciality in oak is very high
grade OF quarter sawed. Its finest
logs are put into that class Of iamber.
The rest of its oak logs, Of course,
into railway and other timbers.
The red gum, which is a specially,
is mostly manufactured at the mill at
Clio.
Yellow pine is manufactured at both
mills. and d speciality is made of edge
:.rained flooring finish and yellow pine
tlmbers.
Pine Bluff, Ark, is the headquarters
Of the Bluff City Lumber Company
where at Fourth avenue and Mulberry
street it has most commodious Of
fee in a building covering an AGRA Of
36A120 feet. This Office is reached by
two lines of street cars. One can
take a Sixth avenue or West Second
street car and arrive within two
hi"cks Of the office.
On March 81, 1907, a fire lcstl Dyed
the entire plant and yards OF the Bluff
City Lumber Company, at Pine Bluff.
AK, and since that time plans have
been made for erecting it's high class
combination planning mill ana sash
and door factory and couplel with
those things a flooring factory.
The building of that mill will begin
this summer and will be prosecuted
as quickly as possible to finish. The
building to hold the machinery vii! be
concrete throughout and will cot not
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