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Show THE ULAOK WALNUT. Oar rarapaaa Coualtta Ara l'ayta High 1'rlrra for It. The great size often reached by this tree, tho richness of the dark brown wood, tho unique beauty of the grata sometimes found In burls knots, feathers feath-ers nnd In the rurl of tbn roots, all contplro to make this the most choice and high-priced of all our native woods, says the ilerea quarterly. Twenty Ave yeara ago walnut was ex-tensliely ex-tensliely used In the manufacture of fine furnlturo and finishings In thlt country, but manufacturers adroitly drew attention to tbe beauty of darkly stained quartered oak and tbo ute of tht rarer wood hat greatly declined. Hut nil thlt tlmo tho tenrch for One black walnut logs has gone on systematically, system-atically, though quietly, tho trade attracting at-tracting little attention, though the volume ot lumber handled hat been large. Though found to tome exttnt In the Atlantic antes from Massachusetts Massachu-setts southward, the great source ot supply has been tbe central portion! of the Mississippi valley The walnut It at home In the rich alluvial bottom landt of toe western streams and In tbe stony llmostone tolls ot tbe hills and mountains and In such localities the buyers have left few trees uniur-veyed uniur-veyed Throughout eastern Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas, as well at tht states along the Ohio and Its tributaries, tribu-taries, may be seen a few logs at thtt little station a car or two at that, with carefully bewn tides and painted endt, ready for the market It you atk where the market It you will Had that tht great bulk nf thlt rare lumber goet to Europe, While wo have been led Into an enthusiastic admiration for fine oak, stained according to the degree de-gree of antiquity It It supposed to reprtttnt, our European cousins have bean paying fancy prices for tbe rich black walnut that wa have allowed to go "out of fashion " |