Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-10-24 | Page 2 | Standing Offer of $ 10,000 for His Rails

STANDING OFFER OF FOR HIS HS RAILS LEBANON OX Tenn Term One One of ot the finest loads of ot cedar logs ever evel seen In Lebanon passed through the tue square quare here Thursday afternoon on lt It Its II way to Martha to be shipped as timber i The timbers mJ oe l lt de were over cyst fifty feet long g and as long around as a mans man's body body- and came from froman froma an old log g barn b belonging g to Henry Mann ll near hear a the I river and were purchased fr purchased I lh by George Rains local cedar timber Umbel dealer The rile one load was valued at over 40 Lebanon once was as called d the City of Cedars drus There then abounded great i tracts of ot cedar over the whole country Is 18 hardly a cedar left standing In the tile whole town and few If any tracts of ot cedar of or any size remain In the tue countr country coun coun- tr try all aU having been sold and shipped away way Cedar once was so plentiful that practically e every t farm In the country ll was en enclosed enclosed en- en closed and partitioned dro a Into i fields with large ten rail cedar fences and it ii was waa for tor this supply of cedar that the tile Gulf Gult Red Cedar Cedar- company of ot Alabama moved Its large plant h here re several se years ag ago ago- and nd began the manufacture of pencil timber out of these fine rails that had withstood the tooth of ot time lime for Cor years tars and years I Kancy y lw prices have been paid by the tile compan company com corn pan pany for Cor the rails rt and agents of or the company company com corn pany have pone gone one over the country buying thousands of rails ralls the farmers replacing them with wire fences A farmer residIng residing ing near Mt l Juliet last week received i be betWEen between between be- be tween and for fOI the the- rails around ills his s place anti and d another farmer in tile the 1 oun c-oun- t tv st t that tC paid I for his place shunt about I fl six alone years I ago recently gf received ib t. I W. W 2000 G. G O sl for of ot the tue h ri rails d Mills has hall a standing offer of or for forthe forthe the rails on his ills place but he lie absolutely refuses to sell a I. single tail rail as he lIe has tics found by actual experience that the his old- old fashioned cedar rail all Is 19 the best fence farmer have his Nash Nashville ash ash- I a cnn can on place ville Banner Hannel