Identifier: forestrywoodindu00broo (find matches)
Title: Forestry and wood industries
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Brooks, A. B. (Alonzo Beecher), 1873-1944
Subjects: Forests and forestry Forest products industry
Publisher: (Morgantown, The Acme publishing company, printers and binders)
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Chestnut oak 889 Hickory 86 Chestnut 1513 White maple 3258 Sugar maple 7291 Locust 4 Beech 1965 Birches 1120 Gum 104 Cherry 349 White walnut 1 Poplar 529 Linden 1014 Cucumber 937 Ash 576 Hemlock 2303 Yew pine (Spruce) 34 Total 22264 The Lumber Industry. Most of the limestone area, where the best hardwoods grew,was settled and the timber destroyed in the process of clearingthe land for cultivation before it could be sold for profit and ina day when timber was considered inexhaustible and of littlevalue. A little of it was utilized for building and fencing pur-poses and for fuel. Small water-power saw mills were located here and there inan early day. After these came the portable steam saw mills.The latter were not common imtil the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-road was extended westward from White Sulphur Springs aboutthe year 1873. After that time many of these mills were locatednear the line. The principal shipping points for lumber were ♦Resources of West Virginia—Maury and Fontaine.
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WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 149 White Sulphur Springs, Caldwell and Roneeverte. When theChesapeake and Ohio railroad was built up the Greenbrierriver a similar industry was begun all along the line. Whenavailable sites for the small mills became scarce near the rail-road many of them moved back into the interior where they arestill engaged in sawing for small owners and hauling the lum-ber on wagons to the railroad. The first large band saw operation in the county was thatof the St. Lawrence Boom and Manufacturing Company. Thiscompany came to Roneeverte in 1882 and erected a circularmill. In 1884 this was replaced by a double band mill whichcontinued to operate until 1910. During 24 years the mill cut433,000,000 feet of white pine from Greenbrier and Pocahontascounties. After 1902 the white pine supply began to fall offand considerable hemlock and hardwood timber was sawed. Thiscompany erected a single band mill at Shryock on Anthonyscreek in 1909 which it is now operating. Some

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