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CONDITIONS BY COUNTIES. 



center of the county. The Guyandot river enters the county 

 from Mingo at about 700 feet elevation and crosses the line into 

 Lincohi at 600 feet elevation. The channels of all the larger 

 streams are below 1,000 feet. The 1,500 foot and 2,000 foot con- 

 tour lines are not here continuous but are broken into a number 

 of separate, irregular circles and ellipses surrounding the hill- 

 tops and crests of narrow ridges. 



Guyandot river flows northwestward through the center of 

 Logan and, with Crawley creek. Island creek, Rich creek. Big 

 Huff creek, Buffalo creek, Rum creek and Dingess run as its 

 principal tributaries, drains almost the whole county. An area 

 of about 25,000 acres in the northeastern part is drained by the 

 head waters of Spruce fork of Little Coal river, and an area of 

 less extent in the southwestern part is drained by the waters of 

 Kiah creek, a tributary of the Left fork of Twelvepole. 



The Original Forests. 



The original hardwood forests of the county were equal in 

 stand and quality to those of any other section of the state. It is 

 doubtful, indeed, if black walnut trees of such unusual size and 

 perfection could have been found anywhere else in West Vir- 

 ginia. J. M. Anderson cut a figured walnut which is said to have 

 measured 7 feet in diameter and 80 feet to the first limb. It is 

 stated that figured trees were common and that many were cut 

 which equaled, or nearly equaled, in size the one mentioned above. 

 The growth of yellow poplars, also, was almost phenomenal. A 

 reliable citizens of Logan asserts that he saw and obtained 

 measurements of a tree of this species 12 feet in diameter and 

 with a long trunk which tapered evenly and moderately to the 

 crown. 



Below are given the approximate percentages of timber trees 

 growing on two virgin tracts lying on opposite sides of the 

 county. 



