. Louisiana and Arkansas railway; its territory industries and financial condition ... or gravel obtained nearStamps. During the year the company has secured addi-tional extensive beds of this gravel near Jena, furnishing anunlimited supply of ballast for the southern end of the line. The companys right of way is 100 feet wide through-out and is cleared to width for the entire distance. Theterminal facilities are ample and satisfactory conditions existfor the exchange of freight with connections. The stations are of wood, commodious and well main-tained. That at Stamps is occupied jointly with
. Louisiana and Arkansas railway; its territory industries and financial condition ... or gravel obtained nearStamps. During the year the company has secured addi-tional extensive beds of this gravel near Jena, furnishing anunlimited supply of ballast for the southern end of the line. The companys right of way is 100 feet wide through-out and is cleared to width for the entire distance. Theterminal facilities are ample and satisfactory conditions existfor the exchange of freight with connections. The stations are of wood, commodious and well main-tained. That at Stamps is occupied jointly with the Southwestern Railway. A new passenger and freightstation will shortly be built at Hope by the Louisiana andArkansas, the Frisco and the Iron Mountain. Waterstations are located at intervals of about twenty miles andare of standard size. Machine shops are situated atStamps and are sufficient for the needs of the company. The equipment, consisting of 24 locomotives, 10 passen-ger cars and 806 freight and work cars, is in good condition. LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS RAILWAY 29. ..% SOUTH-BOUND FREIGHT TRAIN 3° LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS RAILWAY INDUSTRIES ALONG THE LINE LUMBERING Within a few years the South will be the only part ofthis country east of the Rocky Mountains in which pinetimber will be obtainable. But little remains of the whitepine forests of the North. The days of Pennsylvaniahemlock are numbered and the Oregon and Washington firs are debarred fromeastern markets by theexcessive freight the southern millshave superseded those inthe North is evidencedby the large sales insuch states as Michiganand Wisconsin, wherenorthern pine was onceobtained. The wholeMississippi Valley looksto the South for lumberand even Canada obtainspart of her supply fromthese mills. Two kinds of pineare found in great abun-dance near the line of theLouisiana and Arkan-sas Railway, that alongthe northern end of theroad being shortleaf, with hardwoods in the creek bottoms,while
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