Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1920-01-28
BRIGHT OUTLOOK
FOR BUSINESS HERE
BIG TIMBER development,
BUSINESS HOUSES
To Be Erected and Two Woodworking
Plants Probable Along With Oil
Drilling, Means Employment
for 400 to 500 Men.

Tor 4Uu 10 0UU wen.
There is strong evidence that oul
property owners feel that now is the
time to build to meet the large volume
of business that now seems assured
this summer and tor several years
thereafter.
The j. H. Findlay Company will
continue cutting the. timber from
their tract purchased last year at a
cost of $60.000. The company mar
keted many thousand feet of lumber as
we'll as thousands of crossties last
year and the splendid body of timber
purchased is hardly touched. 1t will
require several years yet to remove all
the marketable timber.
The H. G. Rush Cooperage recently
purchased all the oak on 10000 acres
from j. b. johnson and they plan to
have at least $50 men and numerous
saw mills working on that large tract
this summer and continu ously until it
is all marketed. Work is under way
now and will be enlarged as rapidly as
men, teams and weather will permit.
The company IS now closing up irs
| timber work in Kentucky and her d q
be ale to bring - -7ost nx.ss ifro'an
there to this poins lafSe Il ~ Few
months.
The first operations on the tract
which extends from near Crab Orchard,
ten miles east of Crossville. tc Spring
City, Rhea county-.wlll be near Crab
Orchard and they are now working
there. From that point they will pro-
baby extend their centers of operation
until every advantageous point will
represent veritable bee hive of activi-
ty in getting out the lumber. ties and
heading stock.
The ties and lumber will be shipped
direct to Hartman, where the COM
pany has plant, to be finished and
from there shipped to Oil City, Pa,
where the Rush Cooperage has
plant that is turning out some 1000
oil barrels day for the Standard Oil
Company.
Another large timber deal is pend
ing, which will embrace the sale of
5000 acres of what is considered the
best timber tract in the state, size
considered. Chattanooga parties are
interested in the purchase and should
the deal go through, as is expected
within a short time, active work of
marketing this timber will bep,,r,
within few weeks,
1t is known as the Devil Step Hollow
tract and lies east of Grassy Cove and
the greater part of the timber will be
shipped from Crab Orchard.
Two companies are planning to put
in plants for working into dimension
stock such portions of the first class
timber as will not bear shipping be-
cause of being defective in part. 1t is
the idea of the companies to buy this
second or third grade stock and by
cutting it into dimension stock put it
on the market as first grade. 1t is
felt that there will be many millions
of feet of this character of lumber that
will prove highly profitable after being
cut to dimension.
One of the plants will likely be loca-
ted at Crab Orchard and the other at
CrossviIle. 1t is not yet known If
these plants will be put in but present
indications point strongly to such
move.
Taking these three large timber
operations as whole it is very likely
some 300 to 400 men will be employed.
AS it is understood that from three to
five years will be required, at least, to
market these tracts, there is every
reasonable prospect for great business
activity for this section for several
years to come.
This fact being we'll known to our