WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



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The stand on a 13,000 acre tract on Buffalo creek is as 

 follows : 



Yellow Poplar 60 per cent. 



mite Ash ] 



Cucumber I 15 per cent. 



Basswood ) 



Oaks 



Hemlock 



Chestnut I 25 per cent 



Hickory 



Beech and others 



The stand on a 13,000 acre tract on Guyandot river and Rich 

 creek is as follows : 



Oaks (principally White Oak) 50 per cent. 



Yellow Poplar ] 



Cucumber >- 25 per cent. 



Basswood ) 



Hickory ^ 



Chestnut | 



Maples I 



Beech } 25 per cent - 



Birch 



Locust 



Hemlock, and others, 



Hemlock, pitch pine and red cedar were the only softwoods. 

 Cedars were not uncommon along the water courses and pitch 

 pines were occasionally seen growing on dry ridges. Hemlock 

 was more or less common in the stream channels of the eastern 

 part of the county but rare in the western part. 



The Early Lumber Industry. 



Prior to the completion of the Guyandot Valley Branch of 

 the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to Logan in 1904, the Guyan- 

 dot river furnished the only practicable means for the transpor- 

 tation of logs and manufactured lumber. Rafting was confined, 

 through the early years of the county's existence, to a compar- 

 atively small industry carried on by the resident owners of land 



