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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d mountainous sections, including portions of Preston,Barbour, Upshur, Randolph, Braxton, Webster, Pocahontas,Nicholas, and a few adjacent counties. Infrequent excepton dry ridges east of the Alleghany mountains, and alsoalong the Ohio river. Wood.—Soft, light, coarse-grained, not strong, durable in con-tact with the ground, light brown. Uses.—Cheap furniture, interior finish, telephone and telegraphpoles, fence posts, rails, shingles, boxes, crates, etc.Valued on account of its nuts. CASTANEA PUMILA, Mill. Chinquapin. Geographic Distribution. Dry sandy ridges, rich hillsides and the borders of swamps;southern Pennsylvania to northern Florida and the valley ofthe Naches river, Texas; usually shrubby in the region east ofthe Alleghany mountains; arborescent west of the Mississippiriver; most abundant and of its largest size in southern Ar-kansas and eastern Texas. Distribution in West Virginia.—Not widely distributed.Mercer: found in several localities.Wyoming: occurs frequently.
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Photo by A, D. Hopkins.TYPICAL CHESTNUT OAKS, MONONGALIA COUNTY. WEST VIEGIN-IA: GEOLOGICAIi, SUE¥E¥. 389 Summers: common. Logan: rare. Boone: few trees on Pond Fork of Little Coal river. Trees with straight trunks 3 or 4 inches in diameter.Fayette: found at Fayetteville.Eeported from Wayne, Monroe, Mingo, (rare) Braxton(rare), Gilmer (rare), Greenbrier, Pendleton; Grant,and Nicholas (rare).Wood.—Coarse-grained, hard, light, brownish.Uses.—Wood of no commercial value in West Virginia. Nutsoften sold in market of southern towns. QUERCUS RUBRA, L. Red Oak. Geographic Distribution. Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick through Quebecto the northern shores of Lake Huron and to Lake Namekagon,southward to middle Tennessee and Virginia, and along thehigh Appalachian mountains to northern Georgia, and west-ward to eastern Nebraska and central Kansas; rare and ofsmall size toward the northern limits of its range; abundantin southern Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario; one of the larg-est

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