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|.:i! I . iilli-1 1..I I!M "I I1...I. ^ lltmllll |" . ' . -i.. ii 

 :i- Mack Walnut and \ellow |Ni|>llir. Illll little lilting of 



ill., whit.- pirn- ha-, vet IM-CII done owing to it* inaocowi- 

 l.ilitx. 



I nlil recently West Virginia ha* not been ini|H.i i.u.i 

 in the lumber industry. Imi during the hut ten years 

 tin- value of its product ha> nmn- than doubled. The 

 principal -JUT'H-. cut uro hard wood-; mid of those, white 



TIMBER oWNK.n AND CUT, BY SPECIES, AND AVERAGE 

 STAND. 



Went Virginia. The entire area of Went Virginia 

 lies on the Alleghany plateau, which, in a general way, 

 slopes from the east line of the state northwestward to 

 the Ohio and Big Sandy rivers. The higher parts of 

 this plateau are timbered with white pine, hemlix-k. and 

 hard woods, while lower down the slope the proportion 

 of hard woods increases, and the lower -lopes were 

 originally covered with forests of these -|>ecie-. Lum- 

 bering has been most active in the western part of the 

 state near the Ohio River, where considerable areas 

 have been cleared for -ulti\ation. In the more eastern 

 and higher parts of the state the forests have been in 



conifers and hard woods, the Piedmont region mainly 

 with oak forests and the Atlantic plain with open for- 

 ests of yellow pine, while the swampy region- near the 

 coast contain large quantities of cypress. Considerable 

 areas in all parts of the -late have been cleared for cul- 

 tivation. The forests in the mountain region and in the 

 Piedmont country have been, in great part, culled of 

 their most valuable species, mainly of oak and poplar, 

 while vast amounts of yellow pine have been cut, and a 

 beginning has been made upon the <-yp re . Much tim 

 INT. however, still remains in the state, and the lumber 

 industry is rapidly increasing in importance. 



The wooded area of the -tat- i- . -tiuiated at 35,300 

 square miles, or 73 per cent of its area, and much the 

 greater part of thi-. in -pit.- of the extensive cutting, is 

 -till occupied by merchantable timber. In I'.""' and 

 1901 an examination was made of the forests in the 

 mountain region of the state l>\ II. B. Ayres 



and W. W. A-he. under the I'nited States Geological 

 Survey. They found in this region a total stand of 

 timber, of all species, of 10,650 million feet, distributed 

 as follows among the different -|M-ci.- represented, with 

 an average stand per acre upon the timbered areas of 



