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CONDITIONS BY COUNTIES. 



industry has been most active are Collins Settlement and Court- 

 liouse, lying together in the southern and southwestern parts of 

 the county. Most of the lumber from the small mills has been 

 hauled to the railroad and shipped. It was not unusual for lum- 

 ber to be hauled on wagons for a distance of 20 or 25 miles. 

 Weston, Orlando, Roanoke, Arnold, and more recently, various 

 stations along the Coal and Coke railroad, have been the ship- 

 ping points for lumber. A private narrow gauge railroad, con- 

 necting Ireland with Walkersville on the Coal and Coke railroad, 

 brings out the lumber from that section. 



Among the most extensive operators of portable mills were 

 S. Hinkle and Company, who carried on a lumber industry in 

 Collins Settlement district for 20 years, and the Alton Lumber 

 Company, which took out a large quantity of export oak. G. F. 

 Stockert sawed about 33 million feet in 22 sets prior to the year 

 1888, when he moved his operations to Upshur county. During 

 recent years from 15 to 20 small mills have been sawing ir- 

 regularly. 



Present Forest Conditions. 



There are no extensive virgin or cut-over forests left in the 

 county. Approximately 100,000 acres still remain in forest of 

 some kind but all, or nearly all of this is in small woo diets con- 

 nected with cleared lands. The farmers in most sections own 

 sufficient timber for domestic use, and in some cases have re- 

 served excellent stands of oak and other hardwoods. 



LINCOLN COUNTY. 



Location and Area. 



Lincoln county was formed in 1867 from parts of Cabell, 

 Putnam, Kanawha and Boone. It lies in the southwestern part 

 of the state and is the southernmost of the second tier of coun- 

 ties east of the Ohio river. The area is 441 square miles or 

 282,240 acres. 



