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CONDITIONS BY COUNTIES. 



laid of pine lumber and by long usage the softer parts of the 

 planks have worn away so that now every knot and resin spot 

 stands up prominently. It cannot now be ascertained who did 

 the whip sawing for this floor. 



The first whip saw known to have been used in the vicinity 

 of Marlinton was owned by the McCoUums and '^Lowey" Mc- 

 Collum was known as the sawyer. For years he and Alexander 

 Lamb did the neighborhood sawing. At the death of Lawrence 

 McCoUum the saw was sold to Levi Waugh and by him to James 

 Courtney, the pioneer of the Courtney family in Pocahontas. 

 At the latter 's sale it was sold to William Irvine of the Verdant 

 Valley vicinity. 



In the Back Alleghany region, which is that part of the 

 county west of the Greenbrier river from Durbin south to a 

 point some distance below Cass, William Cassell was the possess- 

 or of a whip saw that he used until near the year 1880. The last 

 work done Avith this saw, of which any note was taken, was in 

 sawing plank for the home of William Cassell Jr. built by D. B. 

 McElwee and C. B. Swecker in 1877. The older Graggs of the 

 same section o^vned and operated a whip saw about 100 years 

 ago. 



The Burners^ Yeagers, and Arbogasts, of the "Upper 

 Tract" were the owners and operators of .< whip saw in the 

 vicinity of Travelers Repose many years ago. 



In the lower Pocahontas, or Hillsboro region, doubtless the 

 first whip saw brought to the county was owned and used by 

 Charles and Jacob Kennison who, with J olm McNeel, settled in the 

 Levels in the year 1765. Charles Kennison was considered a good 

 artisan in that day and the old pioneer house of John ]\IcNeel and 

 the residence of the late Claybourn McNeil, of Buckeye, still stand 

 as samples of his skillful work. Ezekiel and Fillden Boggs owned 

 and operated a whip saw during the early days of settlement in 

 the Levels section; and later another'saw was procured by John 

 and Frank Williams, who did considerable work in that 

 neighborhood. 



It is probable that the Cackleys at Millpoint (then Cackley 

 Town), the Gibsons and Hannahs at Yelk, and the Bradshaws 

 of Knapps creek, all owned whip saws in the early history of the 



