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exceedingly healthy. Intervening between the cultivated sections exists the most extensive virgin yellow pine forests in the South." At one point the line built a 5-mile spur to a small lumber mill in Wesson, Arkansas, which it continued to own but allowed the mill to operate. However, the mill later incorporated its own railroad, the
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Ouachita Rivers: splendidly watered and
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