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CONDITIONS BY COUNTIES. 



adjacent to the river. The timber so removed was of the best 

 quality, however, and not a few rafts were taken to the mouth of 

 the river and there sold to operators or to timber dealers. The 

 Little Kanawha Lumber Company of Portsmouth, Ohio, and 

 The Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Ironton, Ohio, were the 

 first large companies to raft logs out of the county. The former 

 company began in 1892 and rafted until 1899, taking thousands 

 of rafts, principally of poplar, from Island creek and Dingess 

 run and from various points along the Guyandot. The Yellow 

 Poplar Lumber Company operated about the same time but not 

 so extensively. C. Crane and Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, com- 

 menced rafting about 1896 and has continued to the present time, 

 taking not less than 100,000,000 cubes of timber during the 14 

 years of operation. 



The saw mill industry was very small before the building of 

 the railroad. At the time of its completion, however, several 

 portable mills were brought in and 2 or 3 large stationary mills. 

 Most of these have continued to operate without intermission. 



The Present Lumber Industry. 



The only company still rafting extensively on the Guyandot 

 is C. Crane and Company. The operations of this company will 

 continue for a number of years. 



The United States Coal and Oil Company has been operating 

 a single band mill at Holden since 1904. 



The Dimension Lumber Company has operated a band mill 

 at Ethel for the past four years and has about completed the 

 cutting on a large tract. 



Boone Timber Company at Clothier on Spruce fork of Little 

 Coal river has recently put a band mill in operation 



Other saw mill operations in the county are few and small. 



The Present Forest Conditions. 



Logan county is divided into 3 magisterial districts. — Chap- 

 mansville, farthest north; Triadelphia, farthest south; and Lo- 

 gan iu the middle. Chapmansville is a district of farms with 

 about 5 per cent of the land owned by non-residents. In this dis- 



