10 WEST VIRGINIA AS A TIMBER PRODUCING STATE. 



Taylor, Monongalia, Grant and Mineral counties. This section 

 reaches an elevation of 4,860 feet on the summit of Spruce 

 Knob in Pendleton county. 



The Potomac section includes the counties of Jefferson, 

 Berkeley, Morgan, Hampshire, Hardy, and parts of Grant and 

 Mineral. Portions of the 4 western counties of this group, 

 especially, are prominently ridged, but the valleys are v^ide and 

 the whole region has a climate and an appearance differing 

 from the Trans- Alleghany highlands and from the cold, m.oun- 

 tainous regions of Grant and Pendleton. The 1,000-foot level 

 extends up the North Branch of Potomac to Bloomingtcn above 

 Piedmont and up the South Branch to the Forks of the river 

 above Petersburg in Grant county. On the extreme east this 

 level is near the summit of the Blue Ridge mountains. 



• The highest mountain in the state is Spruce knob in Pen- 

 dleton county, 4,860 feet above tide; the lowest land is found 

 on the Potomac river a short distance below Harpers Ferry, 

 Jefferson county, 260 feet above tide. 



The highest county in the state is Pocahontas with an aver- 

 age elevation of about 3,000 feet. 



Area in W. Va. from 500 to 1,000 ft. elevation, 7,763 sq. mi. 



" " " 1,000 to 1,500 6,000 " 



" ' 1,500 to 2,000 " 4,200 



" " " 2,000 to 3,000 5,280 " 



" " " 3,000 to 4,000 " 1,200 " 



" over 4,000 " 200 " 



The average elevations of the highest Appalachian states 

 above tide are as follows : 



West Virginia 1,500 feet 



Pennsylvania 1,100 feet 



Vermont 1,000 feet 



New Hampshire 1.000 feet 



New York 900 feet 



Ohio . 850 feet 



Virginia 850 feet 



The drainage of that part of the state which lies east of the 

 Alleghany mountains reaches the Atlantic ocean through the 

 Potomac and James rivers. The chief tributaries of the Potomac, 

 named in order up-stream from Harpers Ferry, are Shenandoah 



